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Structural Analysis : A Historical Approach
Jacques Heyman
Hardcover - $201.95
This volume provides a concise, historical review of the methods of structural analysis and design--from Galileo in the seventeenth century, to the present day. Through it, students in structural engineering and professional engineers will gain a dee ...
Wireless : From Marconi's Black Box to the Audion
Sungook Hong
Hardcover - $80.95
By 1897 Guglielmo Marconi had transformed James Clerk Maxwell's theory of electromagnetic waves into a workable wireless telegraphy system, and by 1907 Lee de Forest had invented the audion, a feedback amplifier and oscillator that opened the way to ...
The Path Not Taken : French Industrialization in the Age of Revolution, 1750-1830
Jeff Horn
Paperback - $49.95
US Hypersonic Research and Development : The Rise and Fall of Dyna-Soar, 1944-1963
III Houchin
Hardcover - $294.95
After World War II, the technology for military space flight seemed within reach when Walter Dornberger, the former commander of Nazi Germany's V-2 rocket research, made an unsolicited proposal to the chief of the Wright Aeronautical Development Cent ...
American Genesis : A Century of Invention and Technological Enthusiasm, 1870-1970
Thomas Parke Hughes
Paperback - $49.95
The book that helped earn Thomas P. Hughes his reputation as one of the foremost historians of technology of our age and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 1990, "American Genesis" tells the sweeping story of America's technological revolution. Unl ...
Preludes to U.S. Space-Launch Vehicle Technology : Goddards Rockets to Minuteman III
J. D. Hunley
Paperback - $62.95
America in Space : NASA's First Fifty Years
Robert Jacobs
Hardcover - $77.95
The story of Americas space age is told with more than 400 carefully selected images, beginning with the 1950s test pilots and venturing ever faster and higher into the now-legendary missions that made astronauts into national heroes.
Out of Orbit : The Incredible True Story of Three Astronauts Who Were Hundreds of Miles Above Earth When They Lost Their Ride Home
Chris Jones
Paperback - $24.95
Empires of Light : Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and the Race to Electrify the World
Jill Jonnes
Paperback - $26.95
In the final decades of the nineteenth century, three brilliant and visionary titans of America's Gilded Age--Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla, and George Westinghouse--battled bitterly as each vied to create a vast and powerful electrical empire. In "Emp ...