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  • The Analogue Alternative

    The Electronic Analogue Computer in Britain and the USA, 1930-1975

    by James S. Small ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine
    We are in the midst of a digital revolution - until recently, the majority of appliances used in everyday life have been developed with analogue technology. Now, either at home or out and about, we are surrounded by digital technology such as digital 'film', audio systems, computers and telephones.From the late 1940s until the 1970s, analogue technology was a genuine alternative to digital, and ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

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  • Computing

    A Concise History

    by Paul E. Ceruzzi ...
    Series series The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series
    Discover the history of computing through 4 major threads of development in this compact, accessible history covering punch cards, Silicon Valley, smartphones, and much more.In an accessible style, computer historian Paul Ceruzzi offers a broad though detailed history of computing, from the first use of the word “digital” in 1942 to the development of punch cards and the first general purpose ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Nature of Technology

    What It Is and How It Evolves

    by W. Brian Arthur ...
    “More than anything else technology creates our world. It creates our wealth, our economy, our very way of being,” says W. Brian Arthur. Yet despite technology’s irrefutable importance in our daily lives, until now its major questions have gone unanswered. Where do new technologies come from? What constitutes innovation, and how is it achieved? Does technology, like biological life, evolve? In ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Infinite Bit: An Inside Story of Digital Technology

    by Arvind Padmanabhan ...
    This book is the story of digital technology from a scientific and engineering perspective. It brings to the reader the wonders of science and the ingenuity in engineering. It shows that technology is not just a tool but also an interesting process. It explores technology's creation from the perspective of needs, problems, and ideas that shaped the digital revolution.Developments are seen through ... Read more

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  • Communications, Radar and Electronic Warfare

    by Adrian Graham ...
    A practical guide to the principles of radio communications for both civilian and military applicationsIn this book, the author covers both the civilian and military uses of technology, focusing particularly on the applications of radio propagation and prediction. Divided into two parts, the author introduces the basic theory of radio prediction before providing a step-by-step explanation of how ... Read more

    $112.00 USD

  • A Degree in a Book: Electrical And Mechanical Engineering

    Everything You Need to Know to Master the Subject - in One Book!

    by Dr David Baker ...
    Series series Degree in a Book
    Written by former NASA engineer Dr David Baker, A Degree in a Book: Electrical and Mechanical Engineering is presented in an attractive landscape format in full-color. With timelines, feature spreads and information boxes, readers will quickly get to grips with the fundamentals of electrical and mechanical engineering and their practical applications.The separate ages of engineering are divided ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • MARE-WINT

    New Materials and Reliability in Offshore Wind Turbine Technology

    Edited by Wiesław Ostachowicz, Malcolm McGugan, Jens-Uwe Schröder-Hinrichs, Marcin Luczak ...
    Series series Energy (R0)
    This book provides a holistic, interdisciplinary overview of offshore wind energy, and is a must-read for advanced researchers. Topics, from the design and analysis of future turbines, to the decommissioning of wind farms, are covered. The scope of the work ranges from analytical, numerical and experimental advancements in structural and fluid mechanics, to novel developments in risk, safety & ... Read more

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  • Advanced Aircraft Design

    Conceptual Design, Analysis and Optimization of Subsonic Civil Airplanes

    by Egbert Torenbeek, Peter Belobaba, Jonathan Cooper, Roy Langton, Allan Seabridge ...
    Series series Aerospace Series
    Although the overall appearance of modern airliners has not changed a lot since the introduction of jetliners in the 1950s, their safety, efficiency and environmental friendliness have improved considerably. Main contributors to this have been gas turbine engine technology, advanced materials, computational aerodynamics, advanced structural analysis and on-board systems. Since aircraft design ... Read more

    $107.00 USD

  • A Vast Machine

    Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming

    by Paul N. Edwards ...
    Series series Infrastructures
    The science behind global warming, and its history: how scientists learned to understand the atmosphere, to measure it, to trace its past, and to model its future.Global warming skeptics often fall back on the argument that the scientific case for global warming is all model predictions, nothing but simulation; they warn us that we need to wait for real data, “sound science.” In A Vast Machine ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Alan Turing's Electronic Brain

    The Struggle to Build the ACE, the World's Fastest Computer

    by others ...
    The mathematical genius Alan Turing, now well known for his crucial wartime role in breaking the ENIGMA code, was the first to conceive of the fundamental principle of the modern computer-the idea of controlling a computing machine's operations by means of a program of coded instructions, stored in the machine's 'memory'. In 1945 Turing drew up his revolutionary design for an electronic computing ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • The Computer from Pascal to von Neumann

    by Herman H. Goldstine ...
    In 1942, Lt. Herman H. Goldstine, a former mathematics professor, was stationed at the Moore School of Electrical Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania. It was there that he assisted in the creation of the ENIAC, the first electronic digital computer. The ENIAC was operational in 1945, but plans for a new computer were already underway. The principal source of ideas for the new computer ... Read more

    $68.39 USD

  • Spacecraft Systems Engineering

    Edited by Peter Fortescue, Graham Swinerd, John Stark ...
    This fourth edition of the bestselling Spacecraft Systems Engineering title provides the reader with comprehensive coverage of the design of spacecraft and the implementation of space missions, across a wide spectrum of space applications and space science. The text has been thoroughly revised and updated, with each chapter authored by a recognized expert in the field. Three chapters – Ground ... Read more

    $72.00 USD