Lessons in Social Responsibility from the Austin Dam Failure
Author : Thomas P. Rich
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Page : 10 pages
File Size : 12,32 MB
Release : 2006
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Author : Thomas P. Rich
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Page : 10 pages
File Size : 12,32 MB
Release : 2006
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Author : Jeffrey B. Webb
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 1015 pages
File Size : 37,98 MB
Release : 2024
Category : Energy consumption
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"Contextualizes and analyzes the key energy transitions in U.S. history and the central importance of energy production and consumption on the American environment and in American culture and politics"--
Author : P. Aarne Vesilind
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 26,30 MB
Release : 2010-10-17
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1848826745
Some years ago when I was chair of the department of civil and environmental engineering, a colleague introduced me to a visitor from Sandia Laboratories, perhaps the largest developer of armaments and weapons systems in the world. We had a nice visit, and as we chatted, the talk naturally centered on the visitor’s engineering work. It turned out that his job in recent years had been to develop a new acoustic triggering device for bombs. As he explained it, the problem with bombs was that the plunger triggering mechanism could fail if the bomb hit at an angle, and thus the explosives would not detonate. To get around this, he dev- oped an acoustic trigger that would detonate the explosives as soon as the bomb hit any solid surface, even at an angle. As he talked, I watched his face. His enthusiasm for his work was clearly e- dent, and his animated explanations of what they had developed at Sandia exuded pride and excitement. I thought about asking him what it felt like to have spent his engineering career designing better ways to kill people or to destroy property – the sole purpose of a bomb. I wondered how many people had been killed because this man had dev- oped a clever acoustic triggering device. But good sense and decorum prevailed and I did not ask him such questions. We parted as friends and in good spirits.
Author : Ronald E. Ostman
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 633 pages
File Size : 46,51 MB
Release : 2016-09-07
Category : History
ISBN : 0271084588
In Wood Hicks and Bark Peelers, Ronald E. Ostman and Harry Littell draw on the stunning documentary photography of William T. Clarke to tell the story of Pennsylvania’s lumber heyday, a time when loggers serving the needs of a rapidly growing and globalizing country forever altered the dense forests of the state’s northern tier. Discovered in a shed in upstate New York and a barn in Pennsylvania after decades of obscurity, Clarke’s photographs offer an unprecedented view of the logging, lumbering, and wood industries during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. They show the great forests in the process of coming down and the trains that hauled away the felled trees and trimmed logs. And they show the workers—cruisers, jobbers, skidders, teamsters, carpenters, swampers, wood hicks, and bark peelers—their camps and workplaces, their families, their communities. The work was demanding and dangerous; the work sites and housing were unsanitary and unsavory. The changes the newly industrialized logging business wrought were immensely important to the nation’s growth at the same time that they were fantastically—and tragically—transformative of the landscape. An extraordinary look at a little-known photographer’s work and the people and industry he documented, this book reveals, in sharp detail, the history of the third phase of lumber in America.
Author : Anna Lorraine Guthrie
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Page : 1468 pages
File Size : 13,71 MB
Release : 1915
Category : Periodicals
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An author subject index to selected general interest periodicals of reference value in libraries.
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Page : 1178 pages
File Size : 45,65 MB
Release : 1912
Category : Charities
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Page : 1466 pages
File Size : 36,97 MB
Release : 1915
Category : Periodicals
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Page : 296 pages
File Size : 27,70 MB
Release : 1911
Category : American periodicals
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Page : 1194 pages
File Size : 24,83 MB
Release : 1911-10
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Author : Teton Dam Failure Review Group (U.S.)
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Page : 734 pages
File Size : 49,7 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Dam failures
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