The Launch of ELDO
Author : John Krige
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Page : 40 pages
File Size : 29,41 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Astronautics
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Author : John Krige
Publisher :
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 29,41 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Astronautics
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Author : Kevin Madders
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 633 pages
File Size : 15,84 MB
Release : 2006-11-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 0521030226
A comprehensive work on the European space sector.
Author : Stephen B. Johnson
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 38,11 MB
Release : 2006-10-31
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780801885426
Winner of the Emme Award for Astronautical Literature from the American Astronautical Society How does one go about organizing something as complicated as a strategic-missile or space-exploration program? Stephen B. Johnson here explores the answer—systems management—in a groundbreaking study that involves Air Force planners, scientists, technical specialists, and, eventually, bureaucrats. Taking a comparative approach, Johnson focuses on the theory, or intellectual history, of "systems engineering" as such, its origins in the Air Force's Cold War ICBM efforts, and its migration to not only NASA but the European Space Agency. Exploring the history and politics of aerospace development and weapons procurement, Johnson examines how scientists and engineers created the systems management process to coordinate large-scale technology development, and how managers and military officers gained control of that process. "Those funding the race demanded results," Johnson explains. "In response, development organizations created what few expected and what even fewer wanted—a bureaucracy for innovation. To begin to understand this apparent contradiction in terms, we must first understand the exacting nature of space technologies and the concerns of those who create them."
Author : Bayard Taylor
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Page : 512 pages
File Size : 12,34 MB
Release : 1882
Category : California
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Author : Bayard Taylor
Publisher :
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 13,48 MB
Release : 1857
Category : California
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Author : Bayard Taylor
Publisher :
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 33,60 MB
Release : 1861
Category :
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Author : Bayard Taylor
Publisher :
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 12,18 MB
Release : 1894
Category : California
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Author : Bayard Taylor
Publisher :
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 23,78 MB
Release : 1859
Category : California
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Author : Wayne Sandholtz
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 13,50 MB
Release : 2024-07-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0520377842
Governments have recognized for decades the dynamic role played by microelectronics, computers, and telecommunications in the modern economy. Although Europe's deficiencies in these crucial sectors had long been acknowledged, it was not until the 1980s that European nations began collaborating to develop and promote high-tech industries. Their collaboration gives rise to many questions. Why, for example, did the joint efforts come at such a late date rather than in the 1960s or '70s? And how is it possible to work together in economically sensitive areas? These questions point to fundamental issues in the areas of international cooperation, international institutions, and technology policy. Before the institution of the collaborative programs ESPRIT (European Strategic Programme for Research and Development in Information Technology), RACE (R & D in Advanced Communications-technologies in Europe), and EUREKA (European Research Coordination Agency) in the 1980s, each European country sought its own technological renaissance through protection of national firms behind walls of technical standards, procurement preferences, and research subsidies. This thorough, carefully researched work examines the breakdown of these walls. It will appeal to political scientists, economists, and scholars of technology and Western Europe interested in the political contours of the high-tech landscape. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1992.
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Page : 1338 pages
File Size : 10,38 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Aeronautics
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