This two-volume work describes the pre-industrial history of mechanical engineering and covers power generation, transport, manufacturing, and weapons technology. Important items are discussed in each section and performance data are presented in easily understood graphical format using over 800 illustrations.
This two-volume work describes the pre-industrial history of mechanical engineering and covers power generation, transport, manufacturing, and weapons technology. Important items are discussed in each section and performance data are presented in easily understood graphical format using over 800 illustrations. The print edition is available as a set of two volumes (9789004136090).
Bryan Lawton received ASME's 2016 Historian Award for his acclaimed book, Various and Ingenious Machines, a 1300 page, two-volume work, which provides a well-researched history of mechanical engineering worldwide, from prehistory to the beginnnings of industrialization. ASME has published a smaller, more affordable version to serve as a guide.
This two-volume work describes the pre-industrial history of mechanical engineering and covers power generation, transport, manufacturing, and weapons technology. Important items are discussed in each section and performance data are presented in easily understood graphical format using over 800 illustrations. The print edition is available as a set of two volumes (9789004136090).
With the Earth fleet almost sestroyed, the Earth lies defeated and occupied by R'oorken invasion forces. The Gedna resistance, their leader stuck on a distant planet and an unwilling participant in a struggle against slavers, give life to the Gedrakna, an experimental hybrid, to aid them in the fight for the survival of mankind.Meanwhile, in deep space, the commander of an advanced Earth warship discovers the secret of the R'oorken seeming invincibility, and together, as part of a most unlikely alliance, they begin the long fight back for liberation and freedom...
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This book gives a comprehensive account of the principles and practical methods applicable to transient temperature measurements in engineering and science. Transient temperatures are taken to be in the range from about 200K to 6000K and with timescales from tenths of nanoseconds to tens ofseconds. Within these limits is a very large field of combustion and gas dynamics and these are the principle areas which are addressed. Several new experimental and theoretical techniques are introduced and various modes of thermal failure are described.The chapters move from undergraduate material to the latest methods and are designed to be of use to the widest possible range of engineers, scientists, and students working in universities or in chemical or mechanical engineering. Many applications are described.
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