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  • Big Dams of the New Deal Era

    A Confluence of Engineering and Politics

    by David P. Billington, Donald C. Jackson ...
    The massive dams of the American West were designed to serve multiple purposes: improving navigation, irrigating crops, storing water, controlling floods, and generating hydroelectricity. Their construction also put thousands of people to work during the Great Depression. Only later did the dams’ baneful effects on river ecologies spark public debate.Big Dams of the New Deal Era tells how major ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Innovators, Trade

    The Engineering Pioneers Who Transformed America

    by David P. Billington ...
    A richly illustrated introduction to the engineering triumphs that made America modernIn this age of microchips and deep space probes, it's hard to imagine life before electricity or passenger trains. An astonishing series of engineering innovations paved the way to the twentieth century, and transformed America into the world's mightiest industrial power. The Innovators tells the exciting story ... Read more

    $12.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Power, Speed, and Form

    Engineers and the Making of the Twentieth Century

    by David P. Billington, Jr., David Billington Jr. ...
    Power, Speed, and Form is the first accessible account of the engineering behind eight breakthrough innovations that transformed American life from 1876 to 1939—the telephone, electric power, oil refining, the automobile, the airplane, radio, the long-span steel bridge, and building with reinforced concrete. Beginning with Thomas Edison's system to generate and distribute electric power, the ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • The Tower and the Bridge

    The New Art of Structural Engineering

    by David P. Billington, Jr. ...
    Series series Princeton Science Library
    An essential exploration of the engineering aesthetics of celebrated structures from long-span bridges to high-rise buildingsWhat do structures such as the Eiffel Tower, the Brooklyn Bridge, and the concrete roofs of Pier Luigi Nervi have in common? According to The Tower and the Bridge, all are striking examples of structural art, an exciting area distinct from either architecture or machine ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

  • From Insight to Innovation

    Engineering Ideas That Transformed America in the Twentieth Century

    by David P. Billington Jr. ...
    The engineering ideas behind key twentieth-century technical innovations, from great dams and highways to the jet engine, the transistor, the microchip, and the computer.Technology is essential to modern life, yet few of us are technology-literate enough to know much about the engineering that underpins it. In this book, David P. Billington, Jr., offers accessible accounts of the key twentieth ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Robert Maillart's Bridges

    The Art of Engineering

    by David P. Billington, Jr. ...
    The description for this book, Robert Maillart's Bridges: The Art of Engineering, will be forthcoming. ... Read more

    $47.59 USD

  • Making the Most of Your Inspection

    Secondary

    by David Clegg, Shirley Billington ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1994, Making the Most of your Inspection is written from the school’s viewpoint in an attempt to dispel hearsay and prejudice regarding school inspections, and to encourage the school staff to approach the event in a positive frame of mind so that the school, pupils and teachers accrue maximum benefit from the experience. Covering planning and preparing for the various stages of ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • Making the Most of your Inspection

    Primary

    by David Clegg, Shirley Billington ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1994, Making the Most of your Inspection is written from the school’s viewpoint in an attempt to dispel hearsay and prejudice regarding school inspections, and to encourage the school staff to approach the event in a positive frame of mind so that the school, pupils and teachers accrue maximum benefit from the experience. The authors, in leadership and inspectorial positions, ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

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    Series series The Britannica Guide the World's Most Influential People
    If necessity is indeed the mother of invention, then the individuals profiled in this volume should be considered the most laudable of all midwives. They each saw a need and met it. Readers will learn more about the lives and methodologies of well-known inventors such as Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Edison, and become familiar with several more whose creations have sometimes outstripped their ... Read more

    $49.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Tesla

    Inventor of the Electrical Age

    by W. Bernard Carlson ...
    Nikola Tesla was a major contributor to the electrical revolution that transformed daily life at the turn of the twentieth century. His inventions, patents, and theoretical work formed the basis of modern AC electricity, and contributed to the development of radio and television. Like his competitor Thomas Edison, Tesla was one of America's first celebrity scientists, enjoying the company of New ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

  • Perfect Phrases for School Administrators

    Hundreds of Ready-to-Use Phrases for Evaluations, Meetings, Contract Negotiations, Grievances and Co

    by Christine Canning Wilson ...
    Series series Perfect Phrases Series
    Find the right words to communicate with teachers, other educators, personnel, vendors, and morePerfect Phrases for School Administrators contains features the key words, phrases, acronyms, jargon and buzzwords used in the field of education and training. You can use these words to write teacher evaluations, settle union issues and contract disputes, deal with vendors and sales reps, communicate ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • The Essential Engineer

    by Henry Petroski ...
    From the acclaimed author of The Pencil and To Engineer Is Human, The Essential Engineer is an eye-opening exploration of the ways in which science and engineering must work together to address our world’s most pressing issues, from dealing with climate change and the prevention of natural disasters to the development of efficient automobiles and the search for renewable energy sources. While the ... Read more

    $4.99 USD