The Life, Work, and Times of an Electrical Genius of the Victorian Age
''He was a man who often was incapable of conducting himself properly in the most elementary social interactions. His only continuing contacts with women were limited to his mother, nieces, and housekeepers. He was a man who knew the power of money and desired it, but refused to work for it, preferring to live off the sweat of his family and ......
Feedback, Control, and Computing before Cybernetics
Today, we associate the relationship between feedback, control, and computing with Norbert Wiener's 1948 formulation of cybernetics. But the theoretical and practical foundations for cybernetics, control engineering, and digital computing were laid earlier, between the two world wars. In Between Human and Machine: Feedback, Control, and Computing ......
Technology has always been inseparable from the development of music. But in the twentieth century a rapid acceleration took place: a new ""machine music"" came into existence, electronic musical instruments appeared, and composers sometimes seemed more like sound technicians than musicians. In this book Hans-Joachim Braun and his co-authors ......
Explains the concepts of physical chemistry by telling the story of the geniuses and eccentrics who made groundbreaking discoveries in this field that bridges chemistry, physics, and mathematics. This book presents a tale about the colourful varieties of human character, and the struggles to understand the workings of the material world.
Brings together profiles of the more than 450 scientists who have won the Nobel Prize in physics, chemistry, or medicine/physiology. This resource illustrates, through the extraordinary contributions of the scientists profiled, the phenomenal growth of science and technology.
Research Labs, Start-up Companies, and the Rise of MOS Technology
The metal-oxide-semiconductor (MOS) transistor is the fundamental element of digital electronics. The tens of millions of transistors in the home of a typical Americanin personal computers, automobiles, appliances, and toysare almost all MOS transistors. To the Digital Age: Research Labs, Start-up Companies, and the Rise of MOS Technology is ......
It's the perfect gift book for every inventor and tinker in your life!Remarkable . . . get the book for yourself. It'll hold you for many hours. (Wall Street Journal)A fascinating compendium for trivia seekers. (Publishers Weekly)>Highly entertaining . . . (Boston Globe)
In 1775, a visitor to Laurent Spinacuta's Grande Ménagerie at the annual winter fair in Paris would have seen two tigers, several kinds of monkeys, an armadillo, an ocelot, and a condor--in all, forty-two live animals. In Elephant Slaves and Pampered Parrots, Louise Robbins explains that exotic animals from around the world were common in ......
Americans today often associate scientific and technological change with progress and personal well-being. Yet underneath our confident assumptions lie serious questions. In Inventing Ourselves Out of Jobs? Amy Sue Bix locates the origins of this confusion in the Great Depression, when social and economic crisis forced many Americans to re-examine ......