Heat A History

Author : Hans Christian Von Baeyer
Publisher : Modern Library
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1999-06-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780375753725

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Warmth Disperses and Time Passes by Hans Christian Von Baeyer Pdf

If you want to know what's happening in the world, follow the heat. Why can't your coffee "steal" heat from the air to stay piping hot? Why can't Detroit make a car that's 100 percent efficient? Why can't some genius make a perpetual motion machine? The answers lie in the field of thermodynamics, the study of heat, which turns out to be the key to an astonishing number of scientific puzzles, including why time inexorably runs in only one direction. In Warmth Disperses and Time Passes: The History of Heat, physics professor Hans Christian von Baeyer tells the story of heat through the lives of the scientists who discovered it. With his trademark elegant prose, eye for lively detail, and gift for lucid explanation, Professor von Baeyer turns the contemplation of a cooling coffee cup into a beguiling portrait of the birth of a science with relevance to almost every aspect of our lives.

Author : On Barak
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2024-08-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520398696

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Heat, a History by On Barak Pdf

"With an unrelenting barrage of record-breaking temperatures dominating the headlines, an enigma arises--despite the flames licking at our feet, most people fail to fully grasp the gravity of environmental overheating. What acquired habits and mechanisms grant us the capacity to turn a blind eye with an air of detachment? Heat: A History shows how scientific methods of accounting for heat and modern forms of acclimatization have desensitized us to climate change. Ubiquitous air conditioning, shifts in urban planning, and changes in mobility all served as temporary remedies for escaping the heat in hotspots such as the twentieth-century Middle East. However, all these measures have ultimately fuelled not only greenhouse gas emissions but also a collective myopia regarding the impact of rising temperatures. Identifying the scientific abstractions and economic and cultural forces that have numbed our responses this book charts a way forward out of short-term thinking and towards meaningful action"--

Author : Barry Donaldson,Bernard Nagengast
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Education
ISBN : STANFORD:36105016936093

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Heat & Cold by Barry Donaldson,Bernard Nagengast Pdf

Author : Christopher J.T Lewis
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2007-08-30
Category : Science
ISBN : UOM:39015073878830

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Heat and Thermodynamics by Christopher J.T Lewis Pdf

This title explores the history of the ideas of what heat was, from the ancient element of fire to the 18th-century notion of heat as an indestructible fluid. It explains the revolutionary experiments that developed the early theories of thermodynamics and discusses the theories that helped formalise the new ideas of heat and energy.

Author : Donald A. Beattie
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Science
ISBN : 0262024152

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History and Overview of Solar Heat Technologies by Donald A. Beattie Pdf

This final volume in a series that has surveyed advances in solar energy research since the oil shock of the early 1970s provides a broad overview of the U.S. solar thermal program. It summarizes the conclusions of each of the nine technical volumes in the series and offers lessons drawn from the program for future governmental efforts to foster specific technologies. Reading this history, it becomes clear that what was unique about the federal solar program was its attempt to create research guidelines that included commercialization as part of the expected outcome. The three contributors, all active participants in the solar project, are quite candid about what worked and what did not (and why). The result is a tale of bureaucracy and politics worth pondering as we debate the proper relationship between government and science.

Author : Dominic Sandbrook
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 741 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2015-02-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780349141282

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White Heat by Dominic Sandbrook Pdf

'An active pleasure to read' Mail on Sunday Harold Wilson's famous reference to 'white heat' captured the optimistic spirit of a society in the midst of breathtaking change. From the gaudy pleasures of Swinging London to the tragic bloodshed in Northern Ireland, from the intrigues of Westminster to the drama of the World Cup, British life seemed to have taken on a dramatic new momentum. The memories, images and colourful personalities of those heady times still resonate today: mop-tops and mini-skirts, strikes and demonstrations, Carnaby Street and Kings Road, Harold Wilson and Edward Heath, Mary Quant and Jean Shrimpton, Enoch Powell and Mary Whitehouse, Marianne Faithfull and Mick Jagger. In this wonderfully rich and readable historical narrative, Dominic Sandbrook looks behind the myths of the Swinging Sixties to unearth the contradictions of a society caught between optimism and decline.

Author : Philip Mirowski
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1991-11-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521426898

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More Heat Than Light by Philip Mirowski Pdf

The development of the energy concept in Western physics and its subsequent effect on the emergence of neoclassical economics are traced to reveal how economics has sought to emulate physics, especially with regard to the theory of value.

Author : Hans Christian Von Baeyer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Maxwell's demon
ISBN : OCLC:754872695

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Warmth Disperses and Time Passes by Hans Christian Von Baeyer Pdf

Author : John Nichols
Publisher : The Creative Company
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2001-08-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1583411038

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The History of the Miami Heat by John Nichols Pdf

Describes the background and history of the Miami Heat pro basketball team, including players Alfonzo Mourning and coach Pat Riley.

Author : Robert Henry Thurston
Publisher : N.Y.: D. Appleton
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : Steam-engines
ISBN : HARVARD:32044056234974

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A History of the Growth of the Steam-engine by Robert Henry Thurston Pdf

Author : Frank Driggs,Harris Lewine
Publisher : Da Capo Press, Incorporated
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1996-03-21
Category : Music
ISBN : STANFORD:36105011386195

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Black Beauty, White Heat by Frank Driggs,Harris Lewine Pdf

Reprint (with the omission of the color insert) of a work published in New York in 1982. Photos of musicians, record labels, and promotional flyers and posters are accompanied by lively and affectionate explanatory text. An exuberant reference, dense with both visual and textual information. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Ingo Müller
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2007-07-16
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783540462279

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A History of Thermodynamics by Ingo Müller Pdf

This book offers an easy to read, all-embracing history of thermodynamics. It describes the long development of thermodynamics, from the misunderstood and misinterpreted to the conceptually simple and extremely useful theory that we know today. Coverage identifies not only the famous physicists who developed the field, but also engineers and scientists from other disciplines who helped in the development and spread of thermodynamics as well.

Author : Pablo Lorenzano,Hans-Jörg Rheinberger,Eduardo Ortiz and Carlos Delfino Galles
Publisher : EOLSS Publications
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2010-09-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781848263253

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HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY -Volume III by Pablo Lorenzano,Hans-Jörg Rheinberger,Eduardo Ortiz and Carlos Delfino Galles Pdf

History and Philosophy of Science and Technology is a component of Encyclopedia of Physical Sciences, Engineering and Technology Resources in the global Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS), which is an integrated compendium of twenty one Encyclopedias. The Theme on History and Philosophy of Science and Technology in four volumes covers several topics such as: Introduction to the Philosophy of Science; The Nature and Structure of Scientific Theories Natural Science; A Short History of Molecular Biology; The Structure of the Darwinian Argument In The Origin of Species; History of Measurement Theory; Episodes of XX Century Cosmology: A Historical Approach; Philosophy of Economics; Social Sciences: Historical And Philosophical Overview of Methods And Goals; Introduction to Ethics of Science and Technology; The Ethics of Science and Technology; The Control of Nature and the Origins of The Dichotomy Between Fact And Value; Science and Empires: The Geo-Epistemic Location of Knowledge; Science and Religion; Scientific Knowledge and Religious Knowledge - Significant Epistemological Reference Points; Thing Called Philosophy of Technology; Transitions from Function-Oriented To Effect-Oriented Technologies. Some Thought on the Nature of Modern Technology; Technical Agency and Sources of Technological Pessimism These four volumes are aimed at a broad spectrum of audiences: University and College Students, Educators and Research Personnel.

Author : University of New Zealand
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:B3140822

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The New Zealand University Calendar by University of New Zealand Pdf

Author : McGill University
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1871
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555074534

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Annual Calendar of McGill College and University, Montreal by McGill University Pdf