This proven and internationally recognized text teaches the methods of engineering design as a condition of successful product development. It breaks down the design process into phases and then into distinct steps, each with its own working methods. The book provides more examples of product development; it also tightens the scientific bases of its design ideas with new solution fields in composite components, building methods, mechatronics and adaptronics. The economics of design and development are covered and electronic design process technology integrated into its methods. The book is sharply written and well-illustrated.

This proven and internationally recognized text teaches the methods of engineering design as a condition of successful product development. It breaks down the design process into phases and then into distinct steps, each with its own working methods. The book provides more examples of product development; it also tightens the scientific bases of its design ideas with new solution fields in composite components, building methods, mechatronics and adaptronics. The economics of design and development are covered and electronic design process technology integrated into its methods. The book is sharply written and well-illustrated.

Bitz offers a history of the Plainville Turkey Farm, which came into existence in 1923, at a time when turkey meat was a delicacy, not affordable for most Americans, and only available for the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays.

Bitz shares more than 40 amusing and interesting short stories of his early life on a turkey farm. He is one of very few people who have been directly involved with the changes that have occurred in commercial turkey production. He brings his insight of its early days to the reader in vividly descriptive stories of the common practices, now an almost forgotten part of the past.

This book looks at the methods of transportation used in Central NY from the time before white man had an effect upon the Native Americans, through the periods of exploration, fur trading, settlement and the changes in transportation that occurred during the next 150 years. It tells of the development of canals and railroads. It covers the gradual emergence of highways and the stagecoaches and other vehicles that traveled on them. Railroads, trolleys, bicycles and boats are all part of the story. The Baldwinsville area is covered in greatest detail but much of the book relates to transportation in Central NY and parallels the development of transportation in numerous other areas of the northeast.

Bitz focuses on the local history of farming communities in central New York.

The book describes NY's rich and varied agricultural history from the time of the Native Americans to the 4 1/2 billion industry that exists today. It follows the gradual settlement of the State from forest to the nation's leading agricultural state. The book contains over 100 pictures, spanning 150 years, and has a variety of tables with pertinent data from 200 years of census information. This book has appeal for people with or without agricultural knowledg