From Wheaties to telephones, microwave ovens to yo-yos, here are the inspiring and often funny stories of 50 mistakes and misunderstandings that helped bring about life as we know it. With hilarious cartoons and wacky facts, this fascinating compendium illustrates the adage "If you don't learn from your mistakes, there's no sense making them."From the Trade Paperback edition.
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Publisher: American Public Health Association. Publication date: 1920 Subjects: Water Sewage Nature / Natural Resources Science / Chemistry / Analytic Science / Environmental Science Technology
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This work demystifies that part of the electromagnetic spectrum known as the radio frequency band. It is aimed at electonics hobbyists, students, shortwave listeners and ham radio operators, taking a practical approach which leads readers through RF theory with hands-on bench experiments and projects. Readers can learn how to construct their own RF amplifiers, simple wire antennas, microwave integrated circuits and receiver preselectors. They will also discover how to wind their own RF coils and transformers, repair fixed and variable capicitors and build radio receiver circuits and RF bridges. Two projects take the mystery out of spectrum analyzers and time-domain reflectometers.
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The World's 20 Greatest Unsolved Problems provides a step-by-step discussion of 20+ of the greatest unsolved problems in science. Given this wealth of unsolved problems in science, the author interviewed some 60 scientists (including the great physicist and cosmologist Dr. Stephen Hawking) to predict what unanswered questions and/or unsolved problems will dominate their fields over the next 20 years. Almost 100 researchers were surveyed to find these scientists, asking for nominations of the persons who are the best-of-the-best in their respective fields around the globe, and who have demonstrated a once-in-a-generation insight. The book is organized into eight parts composed of 21 chapters and four appendices, which includes an extensive glossary of scientific terms and acronyms at the back. Whether it's physicist Hideo Mabuchi's discoveries about the interface between quantum mechanics and everyday life or conservation biologist Gretchen Daily's rigorous assessments of ecosystems and economics, this new generation of scientists are probing the frontiers of knowledge, and have already shown the promise (or the work) that makes senior scientists applaud in awe.
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Since its inception in the early 1950s, this work has become the "bible" for those who need to evaluate the hazard of substances used in commerce. It is the only reference that combines, for so many substances, data on toxicological, fire, reactivity, explosive potential, and regulatory information. Highly acclaimed in the professional journals, it was reviewed as "an indispensable reference guide for professionals responsible for managing industrial safety and occupational exposure...an extraordinary work," and as "a monumental work...Efforts like this are the things of what history is made," among other reviews.
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Paul Dickson, one of the country's leading authorities on American slang, offers the first comprehensive collection of fighting words and wartime phrases Americans have used from the Civil War to the Iraq War. This definitive dictionary, updated and expanded to include the events of September 11 and the war on terrorism, is arranged war by war and reveals military slang at its most colorful, innovative, brutal, and ironic. Dickson also shows how language mirrors the unique experience of each conflict. For example, World War II brought unprecedented linguistic experimentation, innovation, and abbreviation, including "dogface", "quisling", "blitz", and the immortal "GI" as well as the rich stew of pidgin English used to communicate with the native peoples of the South Pacific. Raw frustration and cynicism surface in the slang of the Vietnam War, with a record number of synonyms for the verb "to kill", including "blow away", "dust", "get some grease", "waste", and "zap".Beginning with a brief overview of the Revolutionary War, War Slang reveals the thoughts, attitudes, and environments of America’s fighting men and women from the last 230 years. An incomparable reference work, WAR SLANG serves the language lover and military historian alike by adding a brilliant and provocative new dimension to the understanding of war.
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A rich and informative exploration of our age-old obsession with “making life.”Could an eighteenth-century mechanical duck really digest and excrete its food? Was “the Turk,” a celebrated chess-playing and -winning machine fabricated in 1769, a dazzling piece of fakery, or could it actually think? Why was Thomas Edison obsessed with making a mechanical doll—a perfect woman, mass-produced? Can a twenty-first-century robot express human emotions of its own?Taking up themes long familiar from the realms of fairy tales and science fiction, Gaby Wood traces the hidden prehistory of a modern idea—the thinking, hoaxes, and inventions that presaged contemporary robotics and the current experiments with artificial intelligence. Informed by the author’s scientific and historical research, Edison’s Eve is also a brilliant literary, cultural, and philosophical examination of the motives that have driven human beings to pursue the creation of mechanical life, and the effects of that pursuit—both in its successes and in its failures—on our sense of what makes us human.
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