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3D Printers and Additive Manufacturing: The rise of industry 4.0

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Report copyright infringementby Marlon Wesley Machado Cunico (Author)Over the years, there has been an increased demand for the manufacture of objects and products of high complexity, leading to the evolution of manufacturing processes. As a result, several technologies have been developed to try to supportthese market needs. Among these technologies, we can highlight the 3D printers, which in recent years has been shown a popularization in the global media.Another phenom which has been seen ...

Oliver Tractors 1940-1960: An Engineer's Story

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Report copyright infringementby T. Herbert Morrell (Author)This first-hand account from Oliver's chief engineer provides intimate detail on how some of the most collectible Oliver tractors were designed, built and sold. Author T. Herbert Morrell was the chief engineer for Oliver from 1944 through 1970. He was a key figure in the development of the Fleetline tractors, the upgraded Super series, and the all-new 1600, 1750, 1800, and 1900 tractors. This book provides a behind-the-scenes look at ...

Fidic Silver Book: A Companion to the 2017 Epc/Turnkey Contract

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Report copyright infringementby Jakob B. Sørensen (Author)FIDIC Silver Book is a practical guide for anyone involved in preparing, administering, or contributing to the FIDIC suite of contracts, 2017 edition. Designed as a companion for both the first-time and also more experienced user the book presents an accessible guide to the 21 clauses of the 2017 FIDIC Conditions of Contract, using the Conditions of Contract for EPC/Turnkey Projects (Silver Book) as a basis. Opening chapters provide an...

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Report copyright infringementby Joan Webster Oam (Author)Essential Bushfire Safety Tips provides scientifically verified bushfire safety information, clearing a path of understanding through the maze of policies and tangle of misconceptions and opinions. Set out in easy-to-access dot-points, Essential Bushfire Safety Tips: demystifies bushfire behaviour takes readers step-by-step through every aspect of bushfire safety and danger details each stage of preparing for and responding to the vari...

Basic of HVAC Systems for Beginners: Everything you need to know about HVAC system

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Report copyright infringementby Kaylynn Lawson (Author)Are you aware of the modern marvel that is your HVAC system? An HVAC system that is properly maintained and functioning can provide comfort levels in your home that are beyond what generations before you could imagine. Modern HVAC systems can be controlled by your smartphone. They will keep you cool during hot summers and protect you from the coldest winter chills.How much do you really know about the components and functions of your HVAC...

Developing Effective Standard Operating Procedures For Water Utilities

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Report copyright infringementby Kenneth C. Morgan Pe (Author)The value of this book to the reader as well as their agency is based on offering essential information to assist in their desire to provide: A mechanism to consistently train employees A tool to evaluate the effective of the field crews A means of establishing efficiencies in the operation of the systems A reliable process to enhance the efforts of work teams An approach to align work plans with regulatory requirements A proven sys...

Composite Construction for Beginners: A Practical Application of Lessons Learned Studying and Working with High Performance Composites

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Report copyright infringementby Thomas Miller (Author)This book discusses various topics of composites including specific techniques and processes for the use of several approaches to composite construction. Several case studies illustrating practical application of specific processes and techniques are also provided.Chapter 2; State of the Art of Composites, describes many of the common materials and tools used during the construction of composite parts and tools. Chapter 3; Project Planning...

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Report copyright infringementby Zbigniew Michalewicz (Author), Leonardo Arantes (Author), Matthew Michalewicz (Author)Few terms have captured our imagination in recent times like "Artificial Intelligence," and it now seems that everyone "knows" about AI; that everyone has an opinion. And yet, few people actually understand what Artificial Intelligence is and isn't, where the field came from and where it's heading, and how the technology can be harnessed to generate commercial outcomes.Written...

Signor Marconi's Magic Box: The invention that sparked the radio revolution

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Report copyright infringementby Gavin Weightman (Author)The intriguing story of how wireless was invented by Guglielmo Marconi - and how it amused Queen Victoria, saved the lives of the Titanic survivors, tracked down criminals and began the radio revolution. Wireless was the most fabulous invention of the 19th century: the public thought it was magic, the popular newspapers regarded it as miraculous, and the leading scientists of the day (in Europe and America) could not understand how it wo...

Dreams of Iron and Steel: Seven Wonders of the Modern Age, from the Building of the London Sewers to the Panama Canal

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Report copyright infringementby Deborah Cadbury (Author)A world that had changed little from the Middle Ages was altered beyond recognition by the pioneering genius of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In Dreams of Iron and Steel, acclaimed historian Deborah Cadbury tells the heroic tale of the visionaries and ordinary workers who brought to life seven great wonders of the world that still have the power to awe and inspire us today. Fueled by Deborah Cadbury's characteristic scholarship...

The Gecko's Foot: How Scientists are Taking a Leaf from Nature's Book

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Report copyright infringementby Peter Forbes (Author)A cutting-edge science book in the style of 'Fermat's Last Theorem' and 'Chaos' from an exciting and accessible new voice in popular science writing. Bio-inspiration is a form of engineering but not in the conventional sense. Extending beyond our established and preconceived notions, scientists, architects and engineers are looking at imitating nature by manufacturing 'wet' materials such as spider silk or the surface of the gecko's foot. T...

How to Build and Furnish a Log Cabin: The Easy, Natural Way Using Only Hand Tools and the Woods Around You

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Report copyright infringementby W. Ben Hunt (Author)W. Ben Hunt's classic has earned a reputation as the" authentic handbook since it was first published in 1939. Updated in 1974, it remains the only step-by-step guide to building log cabins and log furniture -- pioneer style."Front JacketThe only step-by-step guide to building log cabins and log furniture--Pioneer style There are other manuals on building cabins, but W. Ben Hunt's is the only one to show you how to build and furnish an authe...

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Report copyright infringementby McGraw Hill (Author) Number of Pages: 272 Dimensions: 0.73 x 6.04 x 4.12 IN Publication Date: January 01, 2001

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Report copyright infringementby Geoffrey Blainey (Author)The third edition of Geoffery Blainey's highly acclaimed study on the causes of war has been expanded and updated to include a complete discussion of World War II and the road towards nuclear war. Analyzing all international wars since 1700, Causes of War solves the riddle of why some wars are long and some are short and demonstrates how the "outbreak of peace" offers insight into the outbreak of war. Proving that war and peace are alte...

How to Make War: A Comprehensive Guide to Modern Warfare in the Twenty-First Century - Paperback

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by James F. Dunnigan (Author)An indispensable guide to how wars are fought, James F. Dunnigan's classic text has been enormously popular with citizens, professional soldiers, and journalists alike. Now, it's been revised to include a stunning array of new subjects. From the cutting edge of cyberwar to the current concern about terrorism, How to Make War presents a clear picture of complex weapons, armed forces, and tactics. Describing a new world order, one with a greater number of equipped ...

A Perfect Red: Empire, Espionage, and the Quest for the Color of Desire - Paperback

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by Amy Butler Greenfield (Author)"You'll finish [Greenfield's] book with new respect for color, especially for red. With A Perfect Red, she does for it what Mark Kurlansky in Salt did for that common commodity."--Houston ChronicleInterweaving mystery, empire, and adventure, Amy Butler Greenfield's masterful popular history offers a window onto a world far different from our own: a world in which the color red was rare and precious--a source of wealth and power for those who could unlock its s...

Better Off: Flipping the Switch on Technology - Paperback

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by Eric Brende (Author)What is the least we need to achieve the most? With this question in mind, MIT graduate Eric Brende flipped the switch on technology. He and his wife, Mary, ditched their car, electric stove, refrigerator, running water, and everything else motorized or "hooked to the grid," and spent eighteen months living in a remote community so primitive in its technology that even the Amish consider it antiquated.Better Off is the story of their real-life experiment to see whether ...

Mr. Lincoln's T-Mails: How Abraham Lincoln Used the Telegraph to Win the Civil War

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Report copyright infringementby Tom Wheeler (Author)Abraham Lincoln's two great legacies to history--his extraordinary power as a writer and his leadership during the Civil War--come together in this close study of the President's use of the telegraph. Invented less than two decades before he entered office, the telegraph came into its own during the Civil War. In a jewel-box of historical writing, Wheeler captures Lincoln as he adapted his folksy rhetorical style to the telegraph, creating a...

The Last Lone Inventor: A Tale of Genius, Deceit, and the Birth of Television

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Report copyright infringementby Evan I. Schwartz (Author)In a story that is both of its time and timeless, Evan I. Schwartz tells a tale of genius versus greed, innocence versus deceit, and independent brilliance versus corporate arrogance. Many men have laid claim to the title "father of television," but Philo T. Farnsworth is the true genius behind what may be the most influential invention of our time. Driven by his obsession to demonstrate his idea, by the age of twenty Farnsworth was ope...

AWOL: The Unexcused Absence of America's Upper Classes from Military Service -- And How It Hurts Our Country

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Report copyright infringementby Frank Schaeffer (Author), Kathy Roth-Douquet (Author)In America, it is increasingly the case that the people who make, support, or protest military policy have no military experience. As Kathy Roth-Douquet and Frank Schaeffer assert in this groundbreaking work, the gap between the "all-volunteer military" and the rest of us is widening, and our country faces a dangerous lack of understanding between those in power and those who defend our way of life.Back Jacke...

Beef: The Untold Story of How Milk, Meat, and Muscle Shaped the World

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Report copyright infringementby Andrew Rimas (Author), Evan Fraser (Author)Andrew Rimas and Evan D.G. Fraser have joined together to tell the remarkable story of the noble cow in Beef: The Untold Story of How Milk, Meat, and Muscle Shaped the World. In the bestselling tradition of Cod and Salt comes a lively history of our ongoing relationship with an animal that we have worked alongside, consumed, and even worshipped for thousands of years. The history of the cow is both surprising and fasci...

It Looked Good on Paper: Bizarre Inventions, Design Disasters, and Engineering Follies

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Report copyright infringementby Bill Fawcett (Author)A remarkable compendium of wild schemes, mad plans, crazy inventions, and truly glorious disastersEvery phenomenally bad idea seemed like a good idea to someone. How else can you explain the Ford Edsel or the sword pistol--absolutely absurd creations that should have never made it off the drawing board? It Looked Good on Paper gathers together the most flawed plans, half-baked ideas, and downright ridiculous machines throughout history that...

Love and Sex with Robots: The Evolution of Human-Robot Relationships

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Report copyright infringementby David Levy (Author)Love, marriage, and sex with robots? Not in a million years? Maybe a whole lot sooner!A leading expert in artificial intelligence, David Levy argues that the entities we once deemed cold and mechanical will soon become the objects of real companionship and human desire. He shows how automata have evolved and how human interactions with technology have changed over the years. Levy explores many aspects of human relationships--the reasons we fa...

Rocketeers: How a Visionary Band of Business Leaders, Engineers, and Pilots Is Boldly Privatizing Space

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Report copyright infringementby Michael P. Belfiore (Author)"That this story is still unfolding makes it especially exciting to read. These men are still in their workshops, tinkering their way into orbit." --David Gelles, FORBESOn June 21, 2004, SpaceShipOne, built by aircraft designer Burt Rutan, entered space and ushered in the commercial space age. Investment capital began to pour into the new commercial spaceflight industry. Richard Branson's VirginGalactic plans to ferry space tourists ...

A Splintered History of Wood: Belt-Sander Races, Blind Woodworkers, and Baseball Bats

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Report copyright infringementby Spike Carlsen (Author)A Splintered History of Wood is a passionate and personal exploration of nature's greatest gift: wood. In the successful tradition of books such as Salt and Cod, writer and carpenter Spike Carlsen explores the history, versatility, and special appeal of something we use everyday--but take for granted--in this comprehensive and dynamic history of wood's global impact and its personal significance to people in all walks of life.Front JacketI...

Food Finds America's Best Local Foods and the People Who Produce Them

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Report copyright infringementby Allison Engel (Author), Margaret Engel (Author)Craving hush puppies but you live in Boston? Need a peanut butter fix that Skippy won't satisfy? Search no further than Food Finds, the celebrated guide to America's diverse and delicious bounty of regional foods and specialty products. Fully updated and exhaustively researched by authors Allison Engel and Margaret Engel, this comprehensive resource contains up-to-date mail and online ordering information for more ...

They All Laughed...: From Light Bulbs to Lasers: The Fascinating Stories Behind the Great Inventions

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Report copyright infringementby Ira Flatow (Author)An enlightening, fun look at scientific discoveries and the often wacky andac cidental ways in which they have led to some of the most important inventions. "An entertaining and informative tour of the laboratoris, institutes, and beauty salons of science".--New York Times Book Review.Back JacketAn enlightening and fun look at scientific discoveries and the often wacky and accidental ways in which they have led to some of the most important i...

Shell Games: A True Story of Cops, Con Men, and the Smuggling of America's Strangest Wildlife

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Report copyright infringementby Craig Welch (Author)A unique blend of natural history and crime drama, Shell Games by Craig Welch is a riveting tale of rogues, scoundrels, and the hunt for nature's bounty in the tradition of The Orchid Thief. A stranger-than-fiction true story centered around a larger-than-life character who pursued a larger-than-life clam--the Geoduck--and then led wildlife police on a two-year-long chase, Shell Games is enthralling and remarkable from page one on.Front Jack...

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Report copyright infringementby Joseph Gies (Author)From bestselling historians Joseph and Frances Gies, whose books have been used by George R.R. Martin as source material for Game of Thrones, comes a classic book on innovation and technological change in medieval EuropeIn this account of Europe's rise to world leadership in technology, Frances and Joseph Gies show how early modern technology and experimental science were direct outgrowths of the decisive innovations of medieval Europe, in t...

Made in America: Regaining the Productive Edge

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Report copyright infringementby Michael L. Dertouzos (Author), Mit Commission on Industrial Productivit (Joint Author), Richard K. Lester (Joint Author)The biggest-selling book in MIT history, Made in America is the definitive account of how America works. Based on interviews with hundreds of workers, this vivid portrait noly only identifies weaknesses and problems in management and productivity, but offers workable solutions for making American business work well again. Number o...

The Battery: How Portable Power Sparked a Technological Revolution

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Report copyright infringementby Henry Schlesinger (Author)"Henry Schlesinger is playful and intelligent and obscenely well read." -- Richard Zacks, author of The Pirate Hunter "Henry Schlesinger's fascinating and superbly researched history of the battery is the story of civilization as we know it." -- Michael Belfiore, author of The Department of Mad Scientists Henry Schlesinger's The Battery is the first popular history of the technology that harnessed electricity and powered the greatest s...

Live from Cape Canaveral: Covering the Space Race, from Sputnik to Today

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Report copyright infringementby Jay Barbree (Author)"From Sputnik to the International Space Station, Jay Barbree has seen it all, and reported it well. 'Live from Cape Canaveral' encapsulates the most technically exciting half century in history." -Neil ArmstrongSome fifty years ago, while a cub reporter, Jay Barbree caught space fever the night that Sputnik passed over Georgia. He moved to the then-sleepy village of Cocoa Beach, Florida, right outside Cape Canaveral, and began reporting on ...