The making of the electrical age
Author : Harold I. Sharlin
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Page : 264 pages
File Size : 28,71 MB
Release : 1964
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Author : Harold I. Sharlin
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Page : 264 pages
File Size : 28,71 MB
Release : 1964
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Page : 650 pages
File Size : 22,71 MB
Release : 1896
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Author : W. Bernard Carlson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 48,52 MB
Release : 2015-04-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0691165610
Nikola Tesla was a major contributor to the electrical revolution that transformed daily life at the turn of the twentieth century. His inventions, patents, and theoretical work formed the basis of modern AC electricity, and contributed to the development of radio and television. Like his competitor Thomas Edison, Tesla was one of America's first celebrity scientists, enjoying the company of New York high society and dazzling the likes of Mark Twain with his electrical demonstrations. An astute self-promoter and gifted showman, he cultivated a public image of the eccentric genius. Even at the end of his life when he was living in poverty, Tesla still attracted reporters to his annual birthday interview, regaling them with claims that he had invented a particle-beam weapon capable of bringing down enemy aircraft. Plenty of biographies glamorize Tesla and his eccentricities, but until now none has carefully examined what, how, and why he invented. In this groundbreaking book, W. Bernard Carlson demystifies the legendary inventor, placing him within the cultural and technological context of his time, and focusing on his inventions themselves as well as the creation and maintenance of his celebrity. Drawing on original documents from Tesla's private and public life, Carlson shows how he was an "idealist" inventor who sought the perfect experimental realization of a great idea or principle, and who skillfully sold his inventions to the public through mythmaking and illusion. This major biography sheds new light on Tesla's visionary approach to invention and the business strategies behind his most important technological breakthroughs.
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Page : 538 pages
File Size : 14,33 MB
Release : 1905
Category : Electricity
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Author : W. Bernard Carlson
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Page : 497 pages
File Size : 26,75 MB
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ISBN : 9781400899128
Author : Frederik Nebeker
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 565 pages
File Size : 23,59 MB
Release : 2009-03-30
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0470260653
A comprehensive and fascinating account of electrical and electronics history Much of the infrastructure of today's industrialized world arose in the period from the outbreak of World War I to the conclusion of World War II. It was during these years that the capabilities of traditional electrical engineering—generators, power transmission, motors, electric lighting and heating, home appliances, and so on—became ubiquitous. Even more importantly, it was during this time that a new type of electrical engineering—electronics—emerged. Because of its applications in communications (both wire-based and wireless), entertainment (notably radio, the phonograph, and sound movies), industry, science and medicine, and the military, the electronics industry became a major part of the economy. Dawn of the Electronic Age?explores how this engineering knowledge and its main applications developed in various scientific, economic, and social contexts, and explains how each was profoundly affected by electrical technologies. It takes an international perspective and a narrative approach, unfolding the story chronologically. Though a scholarly study (with sources of information given in endnotes for engineers and historians of science and technology), the book is intended for the general public.?Ultimately, it tells the story of the development of a new realm of engineering and its widespread applications during the remarkable and tragic period of two world wars and the decades in between.
Author : George Basalla
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 15,64 MB
Release : 1989-02-24
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1316101584
This book presents an evolutionary theory of technological change based upon recent scholarship in the history of technology and upon relevant material drawn from economic history and anthropology. It challenges the popular notion that technology advances by the efforts of a few heroic individuals who produce a series of revolutionary inventions owing little or nothing to the technological past. Therefore, the book's argument is shaped by analogies taken selectively from the theory of organic evolution, and not from the theory and practice of political revolution. Three themes appear, and reappear with variations, throughout the study. The first is diversity: an acknowledgment of the vast numbers of different kinds of made things (artifacts) that have long been available to humanity; the second is necessity: the belief that humans are driven to invent new artifacts in order to meet basic biological requirements such as food, shelter, and defense; and the third is technological evolution: an organic analogy that explains both the emergence of novel artifacts and their subsequent selection by society for incorporation into its material life without invoking either biological necessity or technological progress. Although the book is not intended to provide a strict chronological account of the development of technology, historical examples - including many of the major achievements of Western technology: the waterwheel, the printing press, the steam engine, automobiles and trucks, and the transistor - are used extensively to support its theoretical framework. The Evolution of Techology will be of interest to all readers seeking to learn how and why technology changes, including both students and specialists in the history of technology and science.
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Page : 412 pages
File Size : 33,25 MB
Release : 1899
Category : Electricity
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Author : Bayla Singer
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Page : 29 pages
File Size : 10,88 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Electric industries
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Author : David O. Woodbury
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Page : 404 pages
File Size : 27,2 MB
Release : 2013-10
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ISBN : 9781258841478
This is a new release of the original 1944 edition.