Sterling Signature, 2013. — 244 p. — ISBN: 9781402767364. Edison presents, in intimate detail, the man who helped engineer the modern world. One of history's most prolific inventors, and perhaps America's first celebrity, Thomas Alva Edison did more than bring incandescent light into every household and industry; he created a world-renowned brand, raised capital to support...
Sterling Signature, 2013. — 244 p. — ISBN: 9781402767364. Edison presents, in intimate detail, the man who helped engineer the modern world. One of history's most prolific inventors, and perhaps America's first celebrity, Thomas Alva Edison did more than bring incandescent light into every household and industry; he created a world-renowned brand, raised capital to support...
NASA History Office, 1996. - 137 p. This account of the life of Dr. Hugh Latimer Dryden describes his enormous contributions to aviation and space. Hugh Dryden was a research scientist of the highest order, an aeronautics pioneer, the Director of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), and then the first NASA Deputy Administrator. Dr. Hugh Dryden's special...
Militärverlag der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik, 1989. — 64 p. — ISBN: 3327006776. Inhalt: Werdejahre; Praxis und Wissenschaft; Wissenschaft und Praxis; Abschied und Neubeginn; Rüstungsfabrikant; Kriegsende und Neuanfang; Junkers und die Sowjetunion; Die Konsequenzen von Fili; Der erste Bankrott; Zu neuen Ufern; Die Anti-Junkers-Fronde; Verfolgung und Ausschaltung;...
MIT Press, 2018. — 377 p. The first full-length biography of a brilliant, self-taught inventor whose innovations in information and energy technology continue to shape our world. The Economist called Stanford R. Ovshinsky (1922–2012) “the Edison of our age,” but this apt comparison doesn't capture the full range of his achievements. As an independent, self-educated inventor,...
New York: Thomas Cromwell & Co., 1908. — 406 p. Numerous black and white photographs throughout the book. Contents Include: Edison at the Age of Four Edisons Railway Newspaper The Grand Trunk Boyhood and Youth 10 News Agent and Telegrapher In Search of Employment Edison at the Age of Nineteen His First Workshop Edison at Forty The Kinetoscope Magnetic Ore Sepa rator and Other...
NY.: Floating Press, 2006. — 620 p. — ISBN: 9781775418450. Gain new insight into the life of quintessential American inventor Thomas Alva Edison with this comprehensive biography. Delving deeply into the personal and professional life of "The Wizard of Menlo Park," author Frank Lewis Dyer offers a fascinating glimpse into Edison's extraordinary mind and remarkable ambition. The...
Simon & Schuster, 2015. — 336 p. You’ve heard about Wilbur and Orville Wright since you were a kid, but what do you honestly know about them? David McCullough dives behind the mystique of the “pioneers of aviation” to reveal the brothers’ astounding history. It’s the iconic American Dream story: two boys from a poor home (lacking indoor plumbing and electricity) possess just a...
Pickering & Chatto, 2009. — 241 p. In the Victorian era, James Watt became an iconic engineer, but in his own time he was also an influential chemist. Miller examines Watt's illustrious engineering career in light of his parallel interest in chemistry, arguing that Watt's conception of steam engineering relied upon chemical understandings. Part I of the book - "Representations"...
Vintage Books, 2007. — 624 p. Curator and space historian at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum delivers a brilliantly nuanced biography of controversial space pioneer Wernher von Braun. Chief rocket engineer of the Third Reich and one of the fathers of the U.S. space program, Wernher von Braun is a source of consistent fascination. Glorified as a visionary and...
Reaktion Books, Published in association with the Science Museum, London, 2014. 280 p. — ISBN: 978-1-78023-375-8. Scottish inventor and mechanical engineer James Watt (1736–1819) is best known for his pioneering work on the steam engine that became fundamental to the incredible changes and developments wrought by the Industrial Revolution. But in this new biography, Ben Russell...
Revised Edition. - Chelsea House, 2008. - 164 p. Wernher von Braun presents the story of one of the most poignant and complicated scientific figures of the 20th century. A pioneer in the field of space travel, and a leading light in the successful Apollo moon missions, von Braun was also involved in developing rocketry for use in the Nazi war effort.
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