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Author : Jan K. Herman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Government publications
ISBN : UIUC:30112077310164
Author : Matthew B. Gilmore,Joshua Olsen
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2010-10-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781614236979
Beginning as a small town on the banks of the Potomac, the neighborhoods of Foggy Bottom and the West End grew into the capital's industrial center at the head of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, with factories, gasworks and breweries. The amalgam of working-class row homes, stately mansions and mills largely disappeared with the coming of the twentieth century, and in their place came the federal government, George Washington University, the Kennedy Center and the Watergate. With a collection of rare vintage images, local authors Matthew Gilmore and Joshua Olsen have compiled a stunning visual narrative of the evolution of these historic Washington, D.C. communities.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1312 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Medicine
ISBN : UOM:39015010653791
Author : Jan K. Herman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Washington (D.C.)
ISBN : LCCN:84602260
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Medicine, Naval
ISBN : MINN:31951002698429T
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Medicine, Naval
ISBN : MINN:31951P01110226W
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Medicine, Naval
ISBN : UOM:39015007094793
Author : Thomas Mallon
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2015-02-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101872529
It’s the spring of 1877 in Washington, D.C., and at the U.S. Naval Observatory, great changes are afoot: historical, romantic, and scientific. When the brilliant Cynthia May—a Civil War widow whose beauty has been shadowed by worry and poverty—starts work as a human “computer” at the Observatory, astronomer Hugh Allison has found just the partner he needs for a radiant, half-crazed scheme which will make him live forever in the annals of science and space. But first the two scientists must overcome the very earthly obstacles presented by powerful Senator Roscoe Conkling of New York; and a fraudulent astrologer who just might know their future. Masterfully combining historical detail and startling invention, bringing Reconstruction-era Washington to life along with the ambitions of the burgeoning American nation, acclaimed writer Thomas Mallon gives us a galvanizing story of earthly heartbreak and other-worldly triumph.
Author : Steven J. Dick
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 0521815991
As one of the oldest scientific institutions in the United States, the US Naval Observatory has a rich and colourful history. This volume is, first and foremost, a story of the relations between space, time and navigation, from the rise of the chronometer in the United States to the Global Positioning System of satellites, for which the Naval Observatory provides the time to a billionth of a second per day. It is a story of the history of technology, in the form of telescopes, lenses, detectors, calculators, clocks and computers over 170 years. It describes how one scientific institution under government and military patronage has contributed, through all the vagaries of history, to almost two centuries of unparalleled progress in astronomy. Sky and Ocean Joined will appeal to historians of science, technology, scientific institutions and American science, as well as astronomers, meteorologists and physicists.
Author : Gail S. Cleere
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Government publications
ISBN : UCR:31210023608092
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 956 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-17
Category : Government publications
ISBN : WISC:89015139157
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1140 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Government publications
ISBN : UIUC:30112063912171
Author : Douglas E. Evelyn,Paul Dickson
Publisher : Capital Books
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 1933102705
A celebration of Washington, DC, its history, people, and neighborhoods -- through fascinating archival photos and lively accounts
Author : John Grady
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2015-01-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476618081
In becoming “a useful man” on the maritime stage, Matthew Fontaine Maury focused on the ills of a clique-ridden Navy, charted sea lanes and bested Great Britain’s admiralty in securing the fastest, safest routes to India and Australia. He helped bind the Old and New worlds with the laying of the transatlantic cable, forcefully advocated Southern rights in a troubled union, and preached Manifest Destiny from the Arctic to Cape Horn. And he revolutionized warfare in perfecting electronically detonated mines. Maury’s eagerness to go to the public on the questions of the day riled powerful men in business and politics, and the U.S., Confederate and Royal navies. He more than once ran afoul of Jefferson Davis and Stephen R. Mallory, secretary of the Confederate States Navy. But through the political, social and scientific struggles of his time, Maury had his share of powerful allies, like President John Tyler.
Author : David Alan Grier
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781400849369
Before Palm Pilots and iPods, PCs and laptops, the term "computer" referred to the people who did scientific calculations by hand. These workers were neither calculating geniuses nor idiot savants but knowledgeable people who, in other circumstances, might have become scientists in their own right. When Computers Were Human represents the first in-depth account of this little-known, 200-year epoch in the history of science and technology. Beginning with the story of his own grandmother, who was trained as a human computer, David Alan Grier provides a poignant introduction to the wider world of women and men who did the hard computational labor of science. His grandmother's casual remark, "I wish I'd used my calculus," hinted at a career deferred and an education forgotten, a secret life unappreciated; like many highly educated women of her generation, she studied to become a human computer because nothing else would offer her a place in the scientific world. The book begins with the return of Halley's comet in 1758 and the effort of three French astronomers to compute its orbit. It ends four cycles later, with a UNIVAC electronic computer projecting the 1986 orbit. In between, Grier tells us about the surveyors of the French Revolution, describes the calculating machines of Charles Babbage, and guides the reader through the Great Depression to marvel at the giant computing room of the Works Progress Administration. When Computers Were Human is the sad but lyrical story of workers who gladly did the hard labor of research calculation in the hope that they might be part of the scientific community. In the end, they were rewarded by a new electronic machine that took the place and the name of those who were, once, the computers.
