Download e-book for kindle: History of Technology Volume 24: v. 24 by Ian Inkster

Download PDF by Alexis McCrossen: Marking Modern Times: A History of Clocks, Watches, and

The general public areas and constructions of the us are domestic to many millions of timepieces—bells, time balls, and clock faces—that tower over city streets, peek out from lobbies, and gleam in shop home windows. And within the streets and squares underneath them, males, ladies, and youngsters put on wristwatches of all types.

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Ekphrasis is general as a rhetorical software for inducing enargeia, the bright experience reader or listener is admittedly within the presence of the items defined. This publication specializes in the ekphrastic ideas utilized in historic Greek and Roman literature to explain technological artifacts. because the literary discourse on expertise prolonged past technical texts, this e-book explores 'technical ekphrasis' in a variety of genres, together with heritage, poetry, and philosophy in addition to mechanical, clinical, and mathematical works.

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What occurs to vehicles once they are retired yet prior to they're processed as scrap? during this attention-grabbing background, David N. Lucsko takes readers on a travel of salvage yards and wrecked or another way out-of-service autos within the usa from the viewpoint of gearheads—the sizzling rodders, recovery hobbyists, road rodders, and vintage motor vehicle devotees who reuse, repurpose, and fix junked autos.

Download PDF by Robin Hermann: Sächsisches Hüttenwesen: Schauplätze - Verfahren -

Das sächsische Hüttenwesen steht für eine jahrhundertelange culture. Seine Blaufarbenwerke, Saigerhütten und Argentanfabriken machten es weltbekannt. Das vorliegende Buch liefert einen kompakten Überblick über das historische Hüttenwesen in Sachsen. Neben einer Einführung in die technischen Grundlagen steht die Verhüttung von Silber-, Zinn-, Kupfer- und Kobalterzen im Mittelpunkt.