(P/B) HI-TECH 800 - MACHINES (8489439923)

Παρουσίαση

This illustrated volume presents a comprehensive selection of pioneering achievements of 19th century engineering. As a starting point, it directs the reader to embark on a longer journey into 19th century science and technology, the detailed exploration of which lies beyond the scope of this book. Each category of machines illustrated here merits its own short history to explain the development of the device and its practical application, along with an account retelling the human side of the events that led to its invention and later improvement. And it would be a real lesson today's generation could greatly benefit from. Back then, inventors were often self-taught, rarely academic, always genial and continuously vexed, scorned or robbed of their creations. Yet they were all possessed by an obsession which would variously bring fame, misfortune or madness (Sauvage) or suicide (Evans, Diesel) upon them. [...] (From the publisher)

Περιεχόμενα

Thermal engines
Hydraulic machines
Electric generators and motors
Production machines
Industrial and handicrafts trade machines