Download e-book for kindle: History of Technology Volume 7 by A. Rupert Hall,Norman Smith

Download e-book for iPad: Marking Modern Times: A History of Clocks, Watches, and by Alexis McCrossen

The general public areas and structures of the USA 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, girls, and kids put on wristwatches of all types.

Technical Ekphrasis in Greek and Roman Science and by Courtney Roby PDF

Ekphrasis is well-known as a rhetorical device for inducing enargeia, the shiny feel reader or listener is really within the presence of the gadgets defined. This booklet specializes in the ekphrastic ideas utilized in historical Greek and Roman literature to explain technological artifacts. because the literary discourse on expertise prolonged past technical texts, this publication explores 'technical ekphrasis' in quite a lot of genres, together with heritage, poetry, and philosophy in addition to mechanical, medical, and mathematical works.

Download PDF by David N Lucsko: Junkyards, Gearheads, and Rust

What occurs to autos once they are retired yet earlier than they're processed as scrap? during this interesting historical past, David N. Lucsko takes readers on a travel of salvage yards and wrecked or differently out-of-service autos within the usa from the viewpoint of gearheads—the sizzling rodders, recovery hobbyists, highway rodders, and vintage vehicle devotees who reuse, repurpose, and repair junked autos.

Download e-book for kindle: Sächsisches Hüttenwesen: Schauplätze - Verfahren - by Robin Hermann

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.