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The Perfectionists by Simon Winchester Hardcover History
Only 1 left in stock“Another gem from one of the world’s justly celebrated historians specializing in unusual and always fascinating subjects and people.” — Booklist (starred review)
The revered New York Times bestselling author traces the development of technology from the Industrial Age to the Digital Age to explore the single component crucial to advancement—precision—in a superb history that is both an homage and a warning for our future.
The rise of manufacturing could not have happened without an attention to precision. At the dawn of the Industrial Revolution in eighteenth-century England, standards of measurement were established, giving way to the development of machine tools—machines that make machines. Eventually, the application of precision tools and methods resulted in the creation and mass production of items from guns and glass to mirrors, lenses, and cameras—and eventually gave way to further breakthroughs, including gene splicing, microchips, and the Hadron Collider.
Simon Winchester takes us back to the origins of the Industrial Age, to England where he introduces the scientific minds that helped usher in modern production: John Wilkinson, Henry Maudslay, Joseph Bramah, Jesse Ramsden, and Joseph Whitworth. It was Thomas Jefferson who later exported their discoveries to the fledgling United States, setting the nation on its course to become a manufacturing titan. Winchester moves forward through time, to today’s cutting-edge developments occurring around the world, from America to Western Europe to Asia.
As he introduces the minds and methods that have changed the modern world, Winchester explores fundamental questions. Why is precision important? What are the different tools we use to measure it? Who has invented and perfected it? Has the pursuit of the ultra-precise in so many facets of human life blinded us to other things of equal value, such as an appreciation for the age-old traditions of craftsmanship, art, and high culture? Are we missing something that reflects the world as it is, rather than the world as we think we would wish it to be? And can the precise and the natural co-exist in society?
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Robots, Androids, and Animatrons : 12 Incredible Projects by John Iovine - Paperback
Only 1 left in stockBuild your own computer-controlled servant. Construct your own robot or android to do your bidding! In Robots, Androids and Animatrons: 12 Incredible Projects You Can Build, electronics expert John Iovine serves up easy-to-follow plans and step-by-step instructions for constructing your very own state-of-the-art working robot that will obey your orders, act as your surrogate and even do scores of tough chores. You'll find everything you need to harness the latest robotics technologies--locomotion, sensing and control--to develop a high-tech robot, animatron or android in your own home workshop. This groundbreaking guide makes it easier than you ever imagined to: Design a lifelike robotic hand or arm that performs repetitive tasks; Build a computerized robot that uses both an expert system and a neural network--for some very unexpected behavior; Devise a robotic insect with a "brain"; Create a telepresence robot you can "get inside of" with actual arcade and virtual reality apps; Take advantage of sensing systems--tilt, bump, road and wall, light, speech, recognition, sound--even odors and gases; And much more.
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GE Transistor Manual Sixth Edition - Paperback 1962 Edition
Only 1 left in stockGE (General Electric) Transistor Manual including signal diodes : Applications, Circuits, Specifications
Sixth Edition ($2 cover price) 1962 -
The Anti-Gravity Handbook : Compiled by David Hatcher Childress - Paperback
Only 1 left in stockA newly revised and expanded edition of the weird science classic―
a compilation of material on Anti-Gravity, Free Energy, Flying Saucer Propulsion, UFOs, Suppressed Technology, NASA Cover-ups and more. Includes:
- Photos of Area 51 in Nevada
- How to build a flying saucer
- Arthur C. Clarke on anti-gravity
- Crystals and their role in levitation
- Secret government research and development
- Nikola Tesla on how anti-gravity airships could draw power from the atmosphere
- Bruce Cathie’s Anti-Gravity Equation
- NASA, the Moon and Anti-Gravity
- The mysterious technology used by the ancient Hindus of the Rama Empire
- The Rand Corporation’s 1956 study on Gravity Control
- T. Townsend Brown’s electro-gravity experiments
- How equations exist for electro-gravity and magneto-gravity
- Schematics, photos and illustrations with patents, technical illustrations, photos, & cartoons
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Beyond Human : Living with Robots and Cyborgs by Gregory Benford and Elisabath Malartre - Hardcover Nonficiton
Only 1 left in stockConcepts once purely fiction -- robots, cyborg parts, artificial intelligences -- are becoming part of everyday reality. Soon robots will be everywhere, performing surgery, exploring hazardous places, making rescues, fighting fires, handling heavy goods. After a decade or two, they will be as unremarkable as the computer screen is now in offices, airports or restaurants.
Cyborgs will be less obvious. These additions to the human body are interior now, as rebuilt joints, elbows and hearts. Soon we will cross the line between repair and augmentation, probably first in sports medicine, then spreading to everyone who wants to make a body perform better, last longer, than it ordinarily could. Controversy will arise, but it will not stop the desire to live longer and be stronger than we are.
This book treats the landscape of human self-change and robotic development as poles of the same general phenomenon.
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RCA Transistor Manual Including Silicon Rectifiers and Diodes - Paperback 1962
Only 1 left in stockDesigned for use by engineers, technicians, educators, students, radio amateurs, hobbyists, and others interested in semiconductor devices and circuits.
Contents include: materials, junctions, and devices; transistor designs and circuit configurations; transistor characteristics; transistor applications; silicon recitifiers; tunnel, varacator, and other diodes; transistor installation; interpretation of data; technical data; selection charts; device outlines; and typical circuits.
Information is from back cover of manual.