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Author : William Wallace Campbell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1924
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IND:30000103852475
Author : United States. Superintendent of Documents
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2308 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Government publications
ISBN : UCR:31210023918871
Author : United States. Superintendent of Documents
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2316 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Government publications
ISBN : RUTGERS:39030018822587
Author : United States. Superintendent of Documents
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2386 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1931
Category : Government publications
ISBN : UIUC:30112062426512
Author : Alfred Goldsborough Mayer,Edward Salisbury Dana,Edwin Robert Anderson Seligman,George Cary Comstock,Raymond Clare Archibald,Richard Swann Lull,Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin,William Wallace Campbell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1924
Category : Astronomers
ISBN : LCCN:24026980
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1144 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1925
Category : Government publications
ISBN : STANFORD:36105121175322
Author : United States. Superintendent of Documents
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1144 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1924
Category : Government publications
ISBN : PURD:32754073304341
February issue includes Appendix entitled Directory of United States Government periodicals and subscription publications; September issue includes List of depository libraries; June and December issues include semiannual index
Author : Marc Rothenberg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 637 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135583187
This Encyclopedia examines all aspects of the history of science in the United States, with a special emphasis placed on the historiography of science in America. It can be used by students, general readers, scientists, or anyone interested in the facts relating to the development of science in the United States. Special emphasis is placed in the history of medicine and technology and on the relationship between science and technology and science and medicine.
Author : Richard P. Hallion
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2003-05-08
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9780190289591
The invention of flight represents the culmination of centuries of thought and desire. Kites and rockets sparked our collective imagination. Then the balloon gave humanity its first experience aloft, though at the mercy of the winds. The steerable airship that followed had more practicality, yet a number of insurmountable limitations. But the airplane truly launched the Aerial Age, and its subsequent impact--from the vantage of a century after the Wright Brother's historic flight on December 17, 1903--has been extraordinary. Richard Hallion, a distinguished international authority on aviation, offers a bold new examination of aircraft history, stressing its global roots. The result is an interpretive history of uncommon sweep, complexity, and warmth. Taking care to place each technological advance in the context of its own period as well as that of the evolving era of air travel, this ground-breaking work follows the pre-history of flight, the work of balloon and airship advocates, fruitless early attempts to invent the airplane, the Wright brothers and other pioneers, the impact of air power on the outcome of World War I, and finally the transfer of prophecy into practice as flight came to play an ever-more important role in world affairs, both military and civil. Making extensive use of extracts from the journals, diaries, and memoirs of the pioneers themselves, and interspersing them with a wide range or rare photographs and drawings, Taking Flight leads readers to the laboratories and airfields where aircraft were conceived and tested. Forcefully yet gracefully written in rich detail and with thorough documentation, this book is certain to be the standard reference for years to come on how humanity came to take to the sky, and what the Aerial Age has meant to the world since da Vinci's first fantastical designs.
Author : C.C. Heyde,P. Crepel,S.E. Fienberg,E. Seneta,J. Gani
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12-01
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9781461301790
Written by leading statisticians and probabilists, this volume consists of 104 biographical articles on eminent contributors to statistical and probabilistic ideas born prior to the 20th Century. Among the statisticians covered are Fermat, Pascal, Huygens, Neumann, Bernoulli, Bayes, Laplace, Legendre, Gauss, Poisson, Pareto, Markov, Bachelier, Borel, and many more.
Author : David Baron
Publisher : Liveright Publishing
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2017-06-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781631490170
Longlisted for the PEN/E.O. Wilson Prize for Literary Science Writing Winner of the AIP Science Communication Award An Amazon Best Book of the Year (Science) A St. Louis Post-Dispatch Best Book of the Year Finalist for the Colorado Book Award (Nonfiction) Booklist Editors’ Choice (Science & Technology) Featuring a new afterword priming readers for the total solar eclipse of 2024, this “essential” (BBC) account brilliantly captures the celestial and human drama of eclipses. With this “suspenseful narrative history” (Maureen Corrigan, NPR’s Fresh Air), award-winning science writer David Baron tells the story of the enterprising scientists—among them, planet hunter James Craig Watson, pioneering astronomer Maria Mitchell, and ambitious young inventor Thomas Edison—who raced to Wyoming and Colorado in the summer of 1878, at the dawn of the Gilded Age, to observe the first great American eclipse. Thrillingly recreating the fierce jockeying of these nineteenth-century astronomers, Baron draws on years of “exhaustive research to reconstruct a remarkable chapter of U.S. history” (Lee Billings, Scientific American), when the fate of American science still hung precariously in the balance. Now updated with an afterword that unites eclipses and eclipse-chasers past and present—revisiting the total solar eclipse of 2017 and looking forward to that of 2024—American Eclipse reveals the enduring power of these ethereal events to bring people together across space and time.
Author : Michael T. Benson
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2022-10-18
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781421444178
One of the most remarkable education leaders of the late nineteenth century and the creator of the modern American research university finally gets his due. Daniel Coit Gilman, a Yale-trained geographer who first worked as librarian at his alma mater, led a truly remarkable life. He was selected as the third president of the University of California; was elected as the first president of Johns Hopkins University, where he served for twenty-five years; served as one of the original founders of the Association of American Universities; and—at an age when most retired—was hand-picked by Andrew Carnegie to head up his eponymous institution in Washington, DC. In Daniel Coit Gilman and the Birth of the American Research University, Michael T. Benson argues that Gilman's enduring legacy will always be as the father of the modern research university—a uniquely American invention that remains the envy of the entire world. In the past half-century, nothing has been written about Gilman that takes into account his detailed journals, reviews his prodigious correspondence, or considers his broad external board service. This book fills an enormous void in the history of the birth of the "new" American system of higher education, especially as it relates to graduate education. The late 1800s, Benson points out, is one of the most pivotal periods in the development of the American university model; this book reveals that there is no more important figure in shaping that model than Daniel Coit Gilman. Benson focuses on Gilman's time deliberating on, discussing, developing, refining, and eventually implementing the plan that brought the modern research university to life in 1876. He also explains how many university elements that we take for granted—the graduate fellowships, the emphasis on primary investigations and discovery, the funding of the best laboratory and research spaces, the scholarly journals, the university presses, the sprawling health sciences complexes with teaching hospitals—were put in place by Gilman at Johns Hopkins University. Ultimately, the book shows, Gilman and his colleagues forced all institutions to reexamine their own model and to make the requisite changes to adapt, survive, thrive, compete, and contribute.
Author : Bill Carter,William Eugene Carter,Merri Sue Carter
Publisher : Booklocker.com
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Astronomers
ISBN : NWU:35556036691723
This text recounts Simon Newcomb's climb from a penniless immigrant to the most renowned American astronomer of the 19th-century, with never before published details of his family and professional lives, including his friendship with Congressman--and later President--James A. Garfield.
Author : Scott B. Guthery
Publisher : Docent Press
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9780983700425
This bibliography of Raymond Clare Archibald (7 October 1875-26 July 1955) has been compiled from 1) the Publications list in the Raymond Clare Archibald fonds at Mount Allison University, 2) the curriculum vitae of R. C. Archibald in the George Sarton Archives at Harvard University, 3) the bibliography in Sarton's obituary in Osiris 4) on-line resources and 5) the author's own complete holding of the two journals to which R. C. Archibald made significant contributions, Mathematical Tables and Other Aids to Computation and Scripta Mathematica.
Author : United States. Superintendent of Documents
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1152 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Government publications
ISBN : UCSC:32106020065386