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  • Visions of a Flying Machine

    The Wright Brothers and the Process of Invention

    par Peter L. Jakab ...
    This acclaimed book on the Wright Brothers takes the reader straight to the heart of their remarkable achievement, focusing on the technology and offering a clear, concise chronicle of precisely what they accomplished and how they did it. This book deals with the process of the invention of the airplane and how the brothers identified and resolved a range of technical puzzles that others had ... En savoir plus

    $17.19 CAD

  • The Published Writings of Wilbur and Orville Wright

    par Peter L. Jakab ...
    For the first time, nearly seventy of Wilbur and Orville Wright's published writings are brought together in a single, annotated reference. Spanning the decades from the brothers' turn-of-the-century experiments with gliders until Orville's death in 1948, the articles describe the design of their aircraft, early test flights, and camp life at Kitty Hawk. Because Wilbur's sudden death in 1912 ended ... En savoir plus

    $23.19 CAD

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    In this surprising history of technology, Peter Nowak argues that most of the innovations that make modern life modern can be directly traced to one of three questionable aspects of human activity—war, porn, and the fast food industry. Following developments in technology from the 1940s to the present, Nowak reveals the links between Barbie and U.S. missile systems, how the porn industry killed ... En savoir plus

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  • Kelly

    More Than My Share of It All

    par Clarence L. Johnson ...
    Clarence L. “Kelly” Johnson led the design of such crucial aircraft as the P-38 and Constellation, but he will be more remembered for the U-2 and SR-71 spy planes. His extraordinary leadership of the Lockheed “Skunk Works” cemented his reputation as a legendary figure in American aerospace management.From the Trade Paperback edition. ... En savoir plus

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  • World Without Mind

    The Existential Threat of Big Tech

    par Franklin Foer ...
    **A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 2017 *•*One of the best books of the year by The New York Times, LA Times, and NPRFranklin Foer reveals the existential threat posed by big tech, and in his brilliant polemic gives us the toolkit to fight their pervasive influence.**Over the past few decades there has been a revolution in terms of who controls knowledge and information. This rapid ... En savoir plus

    $15.99 CAD

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  • Day the Universe Changed

    par James Burke ...
    The companion volume for the award-winning PBS and BBC series from "one of the most intriguing minds in the western world" ( The Washington Post).The Day the Universe Changed presents a sweeping view of the history of science, technology, and human civilization and examines the moments in history when a change in knowledge radically altered man's understanding of himself and the world around him ... En savoir plus

    $19.19 CAD

  • James May's Magnificent Machines

    How men in sheds have changed our lives

    par James May, Phil Dolling ...
    Our world has been transformed beyond recognition, particularly in the twentieth century, and so were our lives and our aspirations.Throughout James May's Magnificent Machines, our Top Gear guide explores the iconic themes of the past hundred years: flight, space travel, television, mechanised war, medicine, computers, electronic music, skyscrapers, electronic espionage and much more.But he also ... En savoir plus

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  • Juan Terry Trippe: King Of Commercial Aviation

    par Daniel Alef ...
    In 2008 U.S. domestic airlines carried nearly 750 million passengers domestically and internationally. The growth of commercial air transportation and the number of passengers flying today can be laid at the feet of one of the great aviation pioneers, Juan Trippe, who began a crusade to create an air network that would link America to the world. The Yale graduate was absorbed by flight and ... En savoir plus

    $2.99 CAD

  • The Lunar Men

    The Inventors of the Modern World 1730-1810

    par Jenny Uglow ...
    Led by Erasmus Darwin, the Lunar Society of Birmingham was formed from a group of amateur experimenters, tradesmen and artisans who met and made friends in the Midlands in the 1760s. Most came from humble families, all lived far from the centre of things, but they were young and their optimism was boundless: together they would change the world. Among them were the ambitious toy-maker Matthew ... En savoir plus

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  • Technology: A World History

    par Daniel R. Headrick ...
    Collections series New Oxford World History
    Today technology has created a world of dazzling progress, growing disparities of wealth and poverty, and looming threats to the environment. Technology: A World History offers an illuminating backdrop to our present moment--a brilliant history of invention around the globe. Historian Daniel R. Headrick ranges from the Stone Age and the beginnings of agriculture to the Industrial Revolution and ... En savoir plus

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  • Small Things Considered

    Why There Is No Perfect Design

    par Henry Petroski ...
    Why has the durable paper shopping bag been largely replaced by its flimsy plastic counterpart? What circuitous chain of improvements led to such innovations as the automobile cup holder and the swiveling vegetable peeler? With the same relentless curiosity and lucid, witty prose he brought to his earlier books, Henry Petroski looks at some of our most familiar objects and reveals that they are, ... En savoir plus

    $6.99 CAD

  • Concorde

    The Rise and Fall of the Supersonic Airliner

    par Jonathan Glancey ...
    A celebration, as well as a thoroughly researched history, of a truly brilliant machine that became a sky god of its eraJonathan Glancey tells the story of this magnificent and hugely popular aircraft anew, taking the reader from the moment Captain Chuck Yeager first broke the sound barrier in 1947 through to the last commercial flight of the supersonic airliner in 2003. It is a tale of national ... En savoir plus

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