New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2009. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback.
First printing. A few light smudges on covers.
288 pp. An eye-opening look at the new computer revolution and the coming transformation of our economy, society, and culture. A hundred years ago, companies stopped producing their own power.....
Great Britain / New York: Arnold / Oxford University Press, Inc., 2002. First Edition. Trade Paperback.
First edition. Very minor general wear.
x, 253 pp. "Media semiotics is a valuable method of focusing on the hidden meanings within media texts. This book offers students an in-depth guide to help them.....
New York: Fuel Engineering Company of New York / The Marchbanks Press, 1930. Hard Cover.
Boards lightly soiled, a few pencil marks on front endpaper and margin of a few pages.
102 pp. CONTENTS: Advancing Standards in Steam Generation; RELATION OF PLANT DESIGN AND OPERATION TO THE COAL MARKET: Predicting.....
New York: The Viking Press, 1961. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Jacket faintly toned. Ink note and date on front endpaper.
xiii, 160 pp. "Beginning with a description of our present position in the Kilomegaton Age, Arthur T. Hadley outlines the prerequisites to nuclear control, such as making the.....
![Item #2272858 The Break Through: The Race for the Superconductor [Breakthrough]. Robert M. Hazen](https://yesterdaysmuse.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2272858.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1655911910)
New York: Summit Books, 1988. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover.
Jacket edges rubbed.
271 pp. "Relates the story of the electronic device that has revolutionized modern communications and technology, detailing the behind-the-scenes maneuvering and experimentation that led to its creation."
Wigan, Lancashire: Picks Publishing, 1990. Third Edition. Stapled Binding.
1990 printing of the 1968 third edition.
iv, 48 pp. 1990 reissue of the work originally published in 1708. Illustrated with reproductions of engravings throughout.
New York: Random House, 1940. Large Hardcover.
Former library copy - usual marks. No jacket.
65 pp. Aimed for young adults, this is a full color illustrated guide to mostly European Aircraft used in the early part of WWII.
London: Greenhill Books, 1998. First Edition. Large Hardcover.
First edition.
766 pp. Black-and-white photographs, diagrams, and detailed specifications throughout. "In this comprehensive and definitive reference work H. T. Lenton has detailed all the warships of the British, Dominion and Colonial naval forces that participated in the 'Second World War. The.....
New York: The Ronald Press Company, 1933. 2nd Printing. Hard Cover.
Second printing. No jacket. Board edges lightly rubbed, ink name and ink stamp on front free endpapers, ink stamp on rear paste-down endpaper.
xii, 420 pp. CONTENTS: Occupations in the Aeronautical Industry; Balloons and Airships; Principles of Flight: Airplanes.....
Warrensburg, Missouri: Self-Published, 1977. First Edition. Large Softcover.
First edition. Scarce - 3 copies in OCLC, and only 2 of this edition. Author's bookplate on title page. An advance copy sent to a member (or surviving family) of the 332nd Engineers, with a slip explaining this laid in. Photographic fold-out.....
Philadelphia: L.R. Hamersly & Co. / J.B. Lippincott Company, 1883. Second Edition. Hard Cover.
Second edition. Boards and page margins stained, boards discolored, owner bookplate on front flyleaf.
418, [10] pp. An expansion of a Boston Commercial Bulletin article printed in the 1850s, written by a rear-admiral in the United.....
Malden: Blackwell Publishers, 2001. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback.
1st printing. An exceptional copy.
362 pp. American Technology brings together ten fascinating and important stories of the ways in which Americans, from colonial times to the present, have embraced, rejected, interacted with, and understood the technologies with which they have lived.....
Orlando, Florida: Harcourt, Inc., 2004. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. A near fine copy in a near fine jacket.
357 pp. "The modern world imagines that the invention of electricity was greeted with great enthusiasm. But in 1879, Americans reacted to the advent of electrification with suspicion and fear.....
Ohio: The Saalfield Publishing Company, 1903. Hard Cover.
No jacket. Spine lightly toned, rear board smudged.
Unpaginated. Navy blue cloth boards. CONTENTS: The Story of Steam; The Age of Steel; The Story of Electricity; Modern Electricity;.
CA: Galil Motion Control, Inc., 1994. Large Softcover.
Very minor general wear.
208, 19 pp. Introduction: The purpose of this book is to provide a simplified step-by-step procedure for the design of motion control systems. It is written for engineers and scientists and requires no previous experience with such systems.....
New York: Collier Books, 1977. Soft Cover.
Spine faintly creased, minor general wear.
259 pp. The 125 research and experimental aircraft described and illustrated in this Pocket Book are the most exciting of all the types flown in more than 30 years of aviation since the end of the Second.....
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New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1917. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Former library copy, rebound in library buckram, usual library marks. Boards rubbed, corners exposed,
x, 705 pp. 8vo. Chapters include: Properties, Manufacture, Care and Use of Explosives; Theory of Explosives; Measurements of Velocities and Pressures; Interior.....
New York: Basic Books, 2011. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. An exceptional copy.
Technology is evolving faster than we are. As our mobile phones, mp3 players, cars, and digital cameras become more and more complex, we understand less and less about how they actually work and what personal details.....
New York: New York Rubber Corporation, 1943. Hard Cover.
Jacket edges rubbed with some chips and tears, dime-sized chip to front jacket panel. Pencil note on front free endpaper.
xiii, 47 pp. Color photographic frontispiece, black-and-white photographs. CONTENTS: Foreword; Preface and Acknowledgments; Introduction; The Pioneering Days; Men and Rafts Against.....