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  • - The Genesis of Modern Meteorology
    af Kristine C. (Assistant Professor of History Harper
    193,95 kr.

  • - The Birth of Naval Architecture in the Scientific Revolution, 1600-1800
    af Larrie D. Ferreiro
    322,95 kr.

  • - Transforming Science and Sound
    af Roland (Indian Institute of Technology Madras) Wittje
    316,95 kr.

    The transformation of acoustics into electro-acoustics, a field at the intersection of science and technology, guided by electrical engineering, industry, and the military.

  • - Military Statistics and Demography in Europe before the First World War
    af Heinrich Hartmann
    280,95 kr.

  • - The Rise of Naval Architecture in the Industrial Age, 1800-2000
    af Larrie D. Ferreiro
    497,95 kr.

    How the introduction of steam, iron, and steel required new rules and new ways of thinking for the design and building of ships.In the 1800s, shipbuilding moved from sail and wood to steam, iron, and steel. The competitive pressure to achieve more predictable ocean transportation drove the industrialization of shipbuilding, as shipowners demanded ships that enabled tighter scheduling, improved performance, and safe delivery of cargoes. In Bridging the Seas, naval historian Larrie Ferreiro describes this transformation of shipbuilding, portraying the rise of a professionalized naval architecture as an integral part of the Industrial Age. Picking up where his earlier book, Ships and Science, left off, Ferreiro explains that the introduction of steam, iron, and steel required new rules and new ways of thinking for designing and building ships. The characteristics of performance had to be first measured, then theorized. Ship theory led to the development of quantifiable standards that would ensure the safety and quality required by industry and governments, and this in turn led to the professionalization of naval architecture as an engineering discipline. Ferreiro describes, among other things, the technologies that allowed greater predictability in ship performance; theoretical developments in naval architecture regarding motion, speed and power, propellers, maneuvering, and structural design; the integration of theory into ship design and construction; and the emergence of a laboratory infrastructure for research.

  • af George (Professor of Arabic and Islamic Science Saliba
    487,95 kr.

  • af Max Planck Institute for the History of Science) Camprubi & Lino (Research Scholar
    93,95 kr.

  • - Between Public Domain and Experimental Science, 1850-1930
     
    93,95 kr.

  • - From Marconi's Black-Box to the Audion
    af Sungook Hong
    382,95 kr.

    A new look at the early history of wireless communication.

  • - Empiricism and Erudition in Early Modern Europe
     
    440,95 kr.

  • - French Industrialization in the Age of Revolution, 1750-1830
    af Jeff (Professor of History & Manhattan College) Horn
    93,95 kr.

    How Revolutionary-era France, rejecting the example of laissez-faire, market-oriented Britain, pursued its own path to industrial prosperity.

  • - Physicists, Musicians, and Instrument Makers in Nineteenth-Century Germany
    af New York University- Gallatin) Jackson & Myles W. (Albert Gallatin Research Excellence Professor of the History of Science at NYU-Gallatin and Professo
    476,95 kr.

    An analysis of the intersection of science and music in nineteenth-century Germany: how music provided physicists with a venue for experiments as well as a cultural resource, and how physics assisted musicians in their art and musical instrument makers in their craft.

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    572,95 kr.

    Investigations of how the global Cold War shaped national scientific and technological practices in fields from biomedicine to rocket science.

  • - Patents, HIV/AIDS, and Race
    af New York University- Gallatin) Jackson & Myles W. (Albert Gallatin Research Excellence Professor of the History of Science at NYU-Gallatin and Professo
    93,95 kr.

    The history of the CCR5 gene as a lens through which to view such issues as intellectual property, Big Pharma, personalized medicine, and race and genomics.

  • - Contexts of Creation and Reception
    af Kenneth L. Caneva
    1.234,95 kr.

    An examination of the sources Helmholtz drew upon for his formulation of the conservation of energy and the impact of his work on nineteenth-century physics.In 1847, Herman Helmholtz, arguably the most important German physicist of the nineteenth century, published his formulation of what became known as the conservation of energy--unarguably the most important single development in physics of that century, transforming what had been a conglomeration of separate topics into a coherent field unified by the concept of energy. In Helmholtz and the Conservation of Energy, Kenneth Caneva offers a detailed account of Helmholtz's work on the subject, the sources that he drew upon, the varying responses to his work from scientists of the era, and the impact on physics as a discipline.Caneva describes the set of abiding concerns that prompted Helmholtz's work, including his rejection of the idea of a work-performing vital force, and investigates Helmholtz's relationship to both an older generation of physicists and an emerging community of reformist physiologists. He analyzes Helmholtz's indebtedness to Johannes Müller and Justus Liebig and discusses Helmholtz's tense and ambivalent relationship to the work of Robert Mayer, who had earlier proposed the uncreatability, indestructibility, and transformability of "force." Caneva examines Helmholtz's continued engagement with the subject, his role in the acceptance of the conservation of energy as the central principle of physics, and the eventual incorporation of the principle in textbooks as established science.

  • af Matthew N. Eisler
    639,95 kr.

    The electric vehicle revival reflects negotiations between public policy, which promotes clean, fuel-efficient vehicles, and the auto industry, which promotes high-performance vehicles.Electric cars were once as numerous as internal combustion engine cars before all but vanishing from American roads around World War I. Now, we are in the midst of an electric vehicle revival, and the goal for a sustainable car seems to be within reach. In Age of Auto Electric, Matthew N. Eisler shows that the halting development of the electric car in the intervening decades was a consequence of tensions between environmental, energy, and economic policy imperatives that informed a protracted reappraisal of the automobile system. These factors drove the electric vehicle revival, argues Eisler, hastening automaking’s transformation into a science-based industry in the process.Challenging the common assumption that the electric vehicle revival is due to the development of better batteries, Age of Auto Electric instead focuses on changing environmental and socioeconomic conditions, energy and environmental policies, systems of energy conversion and industrial production, and innovation practices that affected the prevalence and popularity of electric vehicles in recent decades. Eisler describes a world in transition from legacy to alternative energy-conversion systems and the promises, compromises, new problems, and unintended consequences that enterprise has entailed.

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