Engineering Wonders Of The World

Author : Ron Miller
Publisher : Twenty-First Century Books
ISBN 13 : 0761359893
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Seven Wonders of Engineering written by Ron Miller and published by Twenty-First Century Books. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In every age, science and technology have played an important role in advancing human civilization. From architecture to engineering, communication to transportation, humans have invented and developed extraordinary wonders. Engineers take the discoveries of scientists and mathematicians to make practical things, from roads and bridges to weapons and vehicles. Electronic engineers design and build everything from television sets to computers. Chemical engineers research new uses for plastics and other materials. Other engineers design new energy sources and nonpolluting factories. In this book, we’ll explore seven wonders of modern engineering that allow people to travel beneath the ocean, bring power to entire cities, and land on the moon. We’ll also see engineering wonders that cut though a continent and design engines too small to see. Along the way, we’ll see advancements in materials, technology, and construction techniques, and we’ll learn the stories of how and why these engineering feats became important to the world.

Author : Justin Pollard
Publisher : Quercus Books
ISBN 13 : 9780857386632
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wonders of the Ancient World written by Justin Pollard and published by Quercus Books. This book was released on 2012-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wonders of the Ancient World describes the most extraordinary feats of human engineering and design from across the globe, created between the dawn of human civilization and the onset of the Dark Ages. Author Justin Pollard looks at the problems that the ancients solved to build each wonder and introduces us to the travellers, both ancient and modern, who saw and rediscovered each site. Newgrange; Stonehenge; The Great Pyramid of Khufu and the Sphinx; Mohenjo Daro; The Great Ziggurat at Ur; The Temple of Solomon; The Palace of Ashurnasirpal II; La Venta; The Hanging Gardens of Babylon ; The Temple of Artemis at Ephesus; Persepolis; The Grand Canal; The Parthenon; The Statue of Zeus at Olympia; The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus; Delphi; The Colossus of Rhodes; The Pharos of Alexandria; The Library at Alexandria; The First Great Wall of China; The Tomb of the First Emperor; Petra; The Tower of the Winds; The Rice Terraces of Banaue; The Great Serpent Mound; The Pont du Gard; Nero's Golden House; Masada; The Colosseum; The Pyramid of the Sun at Teotihuacán; The Forum of Trajan; The Pantheon; The Baths of Diocletian; The City of Tikal; The Buddhas of Bamyan; The Hagia Sofia; The Basilica Cistern at Constantinople; Hôryû-Gakumonji; Borobudur; Ellora.

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Publisher : National Geographic Society
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Builders written by and published by National Geographic Society. This book was released on 1992 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Engineering wonders of the world are featured in six thematic chapters that focus on overcoming distance (roads, canals, bridges, railroads, pipelines), height and depth (towers, tunnels, skyscrapers), public spaces (sports arenas, exposition halls), the need for protection (on land and from water), responding to the spirit (pyramids, temples, domes, Gothic cathedrals), and harnessing nature's power (wind, solar, hydroelectric). Abundantly and lavishly illustrated. Lacks a bibliography. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Archibald Williams
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Engineering Wonders of the World written by Archibald Williams and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Henry Petroski
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0375700242
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Remaking the World written by Henry Petroski and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1998-12-29 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Science/Engineering "Petroski has an inquisitive mind, and he is a fine writer. . . . [He] takes us on a lively tour of engineers, their creations and their necessary turns of mind." --Los Angeles Times From the Ferris wheel to the integrated circuit, feats of engineering have changed our environment in countless ways, big and small. In Remaking the World: Adventures in Engineering, Duke University's Henry Petroski focuses on the big: Malaysia's 1,482-foot Petronas Towers as well as the Panama Canal, a cut through the continental divide that required the excavation of 311 million cubic yards of earth. Remaking the World tells the stories behind the man-made wonders of the world, from squabbles over the naming of the Hoover Dam to the effects the Titanic disaster had on the engineering community of 1912. Here, too, are the stories of the personalities behind the wonders, from the jaunty Isambard Kingdom Brunel, designer of nineteenth-century transatlantic steamships, to Charles Steinmetz, oddball genius of the General Electric Company, whose office of preference was a battered twelve-foot canoe. Spirited and absorbing, Remaking the World is a celebration of the creative instinct and of the men and women whose inspirations have immeasurably improved our world. "Petroski [is] America's poet laureate of technology. . . . Remaking the World is another fine book." --Houston Chronicle "Remaking the World really is an adventure in engineering." --San Diego Union-Tribune

Author : Archibald Williams
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Engineering Wonders of the World written by Archibald Williams and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David Macaulay
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780395963319
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Building Big written by David Macaulay and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2000 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Companion volume to PBS series which originally aired October 2000.

Author : John Laverick
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781803990989
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Voyaging the World's Civil Engineering Wonders written by John Laverick and published by . This book was released on 2022-08-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examples of enduring feats of civil engineering endeavour can be seen around the world's seas and waterways, from the SS Great Britain to the Panama Canal. In this beautifully illustrated book, John Laverick offers an insight into the intriguing field of civil engineering, taking you on a journey that crosses three continents and three centuries, exploring extraordinary achievements including the artificial waterways of the Panama and Suez canals, floating concepts such as the concrete Mulberry harbours, the world's only rotating ship lift at Falkirk, a man-made island in the Baltic linking the crossings between two countries and the ambitious restoration of the Wilts & Berks Canal.

Author : Archibald Williams
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781018523033
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Engineering Wonders of the World. Edited by Archibald Williams; Volume 1 written by Archibald Williams and published by . This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : DK
Publisher : Dorling Kindersley Ltd
ISBN 13 : 0241443792
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Manmade Wonders of the World written by DK and published by Dorling Kindersley Ltd. This book was released on 2019-10-03 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover and explore the most incredible statues, monuments, temples, bridges, and ancient cities with this unparalleled survey of the most famous buildings and structures ever created by humans. From Stonehenge to the Sagrada Familia, from the Great Wall of China to the Burj Khalifa, Manmade Wonders of the World plots a continent-by-continent journey around the world, exploring and charting the ingenuity and imagination used by different cultures to create iconic buildings. This truly global approach reveals how humans have tackled similar challenges - such as keeping the enemy out or venerating their gods - in vastly different parts of the world. As writer, historian, and broadcaster Dan Cruickshank writes in his foreword, "reading this book is like taking a journey through the world not only of the present but also of the past, because the roots of many wonders lie in antiquity." By combining breathtaking photography with 3D cutaway artworks, floorplans, and other illustrations, the hidden details and engineering innovations that make each building remarkable are revealed. Featuring the most visited monuments in the world - such as the Eiffel Tower, Taj Mahal, and Machu Picchu - as well as some hidden gems, Manmade Wonders of the World can help you to map out the trip of a lifetime or simply be enjoyed as a celebration of the world that humans have built over thousands of years.