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Fifteen NATO officers reveal the awesome strength and secret shortcomings of our most advanced aircraft, including the Linz helicopter, the Harrier jet, the F-4 Phantom, and others. Photographs, illustrations.
Author : Alfred Price
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Page : 240 pages
File Size : 30,90 MB
Release : 1987
Category : History
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Fifteen NATO officers reveal the awesome strength and secret shortcomings of our most advanced aircraft, including the Linz helicopter, the Harrier jet, the F-4 Phantom, and others. Photographs, illustrations.
Author : Manoj Dole
Publisher : Manoj Dole
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 48,50 MB
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Category : Technology & Engineering
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Central Air Condition Plant Mechanic Training is a simple e-Book for ITI & Engineering Course Central Air Condition Plant Mechanic Training. It contains Theory covering all topics including all about the latest & Important about personal safety and machinery safety, manipulating tools, instruments and equipment’s in refrigeration workshop, fitting, sheet metal, air conditioning equipment’s, Split A.C (wall mounted), Split A.C (floor, ceiling /cassette mounted Split A.C), Split A.C (ducted), multi Split A.C and Inverter Split A.C., water cooler & water dispenser, visible cooler, bottle cooler, deep freezer, Ice candy plant, Ice plant, walk in cooler, Leak testing, evacuation, gas charging, Commissioning and trouble shooting of package A.C with air and water cooled condenser fire dampers, Checking airflow, damper, temperature and pressure, operation, De-scaling condenser and cooling tower of central AC plant (Direct and Indirect).and lots more.
Author : Eric Dean Wilson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 28,28 MB
Release : 2022-07-19
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1982111313
This “ambitious [and] delightful” (The New York Times) work of literary nonfiction interweaves the science and history of the powerful refrigerant (and dangerous greenhouse gas) Freon with a haunting meditation on how to live meaningfully and morally in a rapidly heating world. In After Cooling, Eric Dean Wilson braids together air-conditioning history, climate science, road trips, and philosophy to tell the story of the birth, life, and afterlife of Freon, the refrigerant that ripped a hole larger than the continental United States in the ozone layer. As he traces the refrigerant’s life span from its invention in the 1920s—when it was hailed as a miracle of scientific progress—to efforts in the 1980s to ban the chemical (and the resulting political backlash), Wilson finds himself on a journey through the American heartland, trailing a man who buys up old tanks of Freon stockpiled in attics and basements to destroy what remains of the chemical before it can do further harm. Wilson is at heart an essayist, looking far and wide to tease out what particular forces in American culture—in capitalism, in systemic racism, in our values—combined to lead us into the Freon crisis and then out. “Meticulously researched and engagingly written” (Amitav Ghosh), this “knockout debut” (New York Journal of Books) offers a rare glimpse of environmental hope, suggesting that maybe the vast and terrifying problem of global warming is not beyond our grasp to face.
Author : Salvatore Basile
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 18,4 MB
Release : 2014-09-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0823261778
“[A] history of air conditioning, chronicling the numerous gimmicks, failed attempts, con jobs, and eventual successes . . . a surprisingly interesting journey.” —San Francisco Book Review The air conditioner is often hailed as one of the modern world’s greatest inventions—yet nearly as often blamed for global disaster. It has changed everything from architecture to people’s food habits; saved countless lives, and caused countless deaths. First appearing in 1902, when Willis Carrier, an engineer barely out of college, developed the “Apparatus for Treating Air,” everyone assumed it would instantly change the world. But the story of air conditioning and its rise to ubiquity is far from simple. In Cool, Salvatore Basile tracks two fascinating stories: the struggle to perfect an effective cooling device, and the effort to convince people that they actually needed such a thing. With a cast of characters ranging from Leonardo da Vinci to Richard Nixon and Felix the Cat, Cool showcases the myriad reactions to air conditioning as it was developed and introduced to the world. Here is a unique perspective on a common convenience: how we came to rely on it today, and how it might change radically tomorrow.
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Page : 312 pages
File Size : 14,96 MB
Release : 1967
Category : Construction industry
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Page : 28 pages
File Size : 28,32 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Construction industry
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Page : 388 pages
File Size : 13,21 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Administrative law
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Author : Gail Cooper
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 28,72 MB
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801871139
Cooper demonstrates how the lure of the open air, from rooftop schoolrooms to open-air theaters to the front porch, challenged air conditioning. Americans were slow to give up the social rituals of hot-weather living - the cold drink, the cool clothes, the summer vacation - for the comforts of either the window air conditioner or the central system.
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Page : 8 pages
File Size : 45,9 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Air conditioning
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Page : 962 pages
File Size : 12,84 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Housing
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