Impossible Engineering

Author : Chandra Mukerji
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-09
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781400833146

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Impossible Engineering by Chandra Mukerji Pdf

The Canal du Midi, which threads through southwestern France and links the Atlantic to the Mediterranean, was an astonishing feat of seventeenth-century engineering--in fact, it was technically impossible according to the standards of its day. Impossible Engineering takes an insightful and entertaining look at the mystery of its success as well as the canal's surprising political significance. The waterway was a marvel that connected modern state power to human control of nature just as surely as it linked the ocean to the sea. The Canal du Midi is typically characterized as the achievement of Pierre-Paul Riquet, a tax farmer and entrepreneur for the canal. Yet Chandra Mukerji argues that it was a product of collective intelligence, depending on peasant women and artisans--unrecognized heirs to Roman traditions of engineering--who came to labor on the waterway in collaboration with military and academic supervisors. Ironically, while Louis XIV and his treasury minister Jean-Baptiste Colbert used propaganda to present France as a new Rome, the Canal du Midi was being constructed with unrecognized classical methods. Still, the result was politically potent. As Mukerji shows, the project took land and power from local nobles, using water itself as a silent agent of the state to disrupt traditions of local life that had served regional elites. Impossible Engineering opens a surprising window into the world of seventeenth-century France and illuminates a singular work of engineering undertaken to empower the state through technical conquest of nature.

Author : MJ Fletcher
Publisher : MJ Fletcher
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2015-05-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Impossible Engineers by MJ Fletcher Pdf

Chloe Masters’ world changes in a heartbeat and all she did was touch a doorknob. James Nightshade has been on Chloe’s mind since the day she met him. Arrogant and frustrating, she thought she had put him behind her when she chose Michael Slade. When the secret she is seeking leads to questions about the death of Nightshade’s former girlfriend, she has no chose but to bring him into the investigation. A move she will come to regret. Danger awaits them around every corner as they search for answers. In the end a choice will need to be made, but is Chloe strong enough to make it?

Author : Bill Williams,José Figueiredo,James Trevelyan
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-03
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781315879369

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Engineering Practice in a Global Context by Bill Williams,José Figueiredo,James Trevelyan Pdf

This volume aims to provide the reader with a broad cross-section of empirical research being carried out into engineers at work. The chapters provide pointers to other relevant studies over recent decades an important aspect, we believe, because this area has only recently begun to coalesce as a field of study and up to now relevant empirical re

Author : James Trevelyan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781782408376

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30-Second Engineering by James Trevelyan Pdf

Major buildings, energy supply systems, chemical plants, food processing, and aircraft are all examples of engineering today. Despite such diversity, nearly all engineering fields rely on common principles and methods, and there is remarkable similarity in the daily work of engineers. Engineers spend most effort organising and coordinating collaborative work by all the diverse people involved, guided by their technical knowledge and experience. Unlike physics or biology, where immutable laws underpin the study, the essence of engineering is found in how theory is applied judgementally. To quickly grasp the nature of engineering the fifty summaries in 30-Second Engineering outlines types of engineering from mechanical to chemical; the universal stages of a collaborative engineering project; and the key ways engineering can solve the challenges of our future earth.

Author : Sarah E. Vaughn
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2022-02-07
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781478022725

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Engineering Vulnerability by Sarah E. Vaughn Pdf

In Engineering Vulnerability Sarah E. Vaughn examines climate adaptation against the backdrop of ongoing processes of settler colonialism and the global climate change initiatives that seek to intervene in the lives of the world’s most vulnerable. Her case study is Guyana in the aftermath of the 2005 catastrophic flooding that ravaged the country’s Atlantic coastal plain. The country’s ensuing engineering projects reveal the contingencies of climate adaptation and the capacity of flooding to shape Guyanese expectations about racial (in)equality. Analyzing the coproduction of race and vulnerability, Vaughn details why climate adaptation has implications for how we understand the past and the continued human settlement of a place. Such understandings become particularly apparent not only through experts’ and ordinary citizens’ disputes over resources but in their attention to the ethical practice of technoscience over time. Approaching climate adaptation this way, Vaughn exposes the generative openings as well as gaps in racial thinking for theorizing climate action, environmental justice, and, more broadly, future life on a warming planet. Duke University Press Scholars of Color First Book Award recipient

Author : Rama Reddy,Carol Ziegler
Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Learning
Page : 857 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780763739522

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C Programming for Scientists and Engineers with Applications by Rama Reddy,Carol Ziegler Pdf

C is a favored and widely used programming language, particularly within the fields of science and engineering. C Programming for Scientists and Engineers with Applications guides readers through the fundamental, as well as the advanced concepts, of the C programming language as it applies to solving engineering and scientific problems. Ideal for readers with no prior programming experience, this text provides numerous sample problems and their solutions in the areas of mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, heat transfer, fluid mechanics, physics, chemistry, and more. It begins with a chapter focused on the basic terminology relating to hardware, software, problem definition and solution. From there readers are quickly brought into the key elements of C and will be writing their own code upon completion of Chapter 2. Concepts are then gradually built upon using a strong, structured approach with syntax and semantics presented in an easy-to-understand sentence format. Readers will find C Programming for Scientists and Engineers with Applications to be an engaging, user-friendly introduction to this popular language.

Author : James Trevelyan
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-22
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781315742281

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The Making of an Expert Engineer by James Trevelyan Pdf

This book sets out the principles of engineering practice, knowledge that has come to light through more than a decade of research by the author and his students studying engineers at work. Until now, this knowledge has been almost entirely unwritten, passed on invisibly from one generation of engineers to the next, what engineers refer to asexpe

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Civil engineering
ISBN : UCLA:L0075056671

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Navy Civil Engineer by Anonim Pdf

Author : Ioan James
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2010-02-25
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781139486255

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Remarkable Engineers by Ioan James Pdf

Engineering transformed the world completely between the 17th and 21st centuries. Remarkable Engineers tells the stories of 51 of the key pioneers in this transformation, from the designers and builders of the world's railways, bridges and aeroplanes, to the founders of the modern electronics and communications revolutions. The focus throughout is on their varied life stories, and engineering and scientific detail is kept to a minimum. Engineer profiles are organized chronologically, inviting readers with an interest in engineering to follow the path by which these remarkable engineers utterly changed our lives.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 712 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Aeronautics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105132184214

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Ask Magazine by Anonim Pdf

Author : Frank Uekotter
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 752 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2024-04-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780822989806

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The Vortex by Frank Uekotter Pdf

Environmental challenges are defining the twenty-first century. To fully understand ongoing debates about our current crises—climate change, loss of biological diversity, pollution, extinction, resource woes—means revisiting their origins, in all their complexity. With this ambitious, highly original contribution to the environmental history of global modernity, Frank Uekötter considers the many ways humans have had an impact on their physical environment throughout history. Ours is not a one-way trajectory to sudden collapse, he argues, but rather death by a thousand cuts. The many paths we’ve forged to arrive in our current predicament, from agriculture to industry to infrastructure, must be considered collectively if we are to stay afloat in what Uekötter describes as a vortex: a powerful metaphor for the flow of history, capturing the momentum and the many crosscurrents that swept people and environments along. His book invites us to look at environmental challenges from multiple perspectives, including all the twists and turns that have helped to create the mess we find ourselves in. Uekötter has written a world history for an age where things are falling apart: where we know what lies ahead and are equipped with the right tools—technological and otherwise—and plenty of experience to deal with environmental challenges, but somehow fail to get our affairs in order.

Author : Elizabeth Reddy
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2023-04-04
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780262374378

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¡Alerta! by Elizabeth Reddy Pdf

A lively account of a controversial technology developed to mitigate earthquake risk and change how we live with threatening environments. The Sistema de Alerta Sísmica Mexicano is the world’s oldest public earthquake early warning system. Given the unpredictability of earthquakes, the technology was designed to give the people of Mexico City more than a minute to prepare before the next big quake hits. How does this kind of environmental monitoring technology get built in the first place? How does its life-saving promise align with reality? And who shapes modern risk mitigation? In ¡Alerta!, Elizabeth Reddy surveys this innovation to shed light on what it means to imagine a world where sirens could sound out an ¡alerta sísmica! at any moment—and what it would be like to live in such a world. Proponents of earthquake early warnings have long held that the technology can save lives and limit economic losses. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and archival data, Reddy conducts a thorough, qualitative analysis of these claims and considers the requirements and uses of the alert system. She embeds her study in a rich narrative of the engineers who designed the system in conjunction with contingent political and environmental conditions. The result demonstrates how addressing earthquake dangers is no small task: it means trying to change relationships between the environment, society, and technology. Doing so, she critiques universalist and techno-centric approaches to hazard risk mitigation and celebrates the potential of contextually appropriate and broadly supported efforts. ¡Alerta! takes readers on a vivid journey into the world of Mexican earthquake risk mitigation, with critical insights for anthropologists and science and technology studies scholars, as well as specialists in the geosciences, engineering, and emergency management.

Author : Eike-Christian Heine,Christoph Rauhut
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-31
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781351393188

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Producing Non-Simultaneity by Eike-Christian Heine,Christoph Rauhut Pdf

Producing Non-Simultaneity discusses how the processes of modernisation, driven by globalisation and market forces, change the political, economic and technological conditions under which architecture is realised. The book looks beyond the rhetoric of revolutionary innovation, often put forward by architects and engineers. It shows how technological change during the last 200 years was only possible because traditional skills and older materials persisted. The volume argues that building sites have long been showcases of non-simultaneities. Shedding light on construction of the past and exploring what may impact construction in the future, this book would be a valuable addition for students, researchers and academics in architecture, architectural history and theory.

Author : Daniel Chen,Denis O'Sullivan
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2008-10
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9780615222837

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Dating for Engineers by Daniel Chen,Denis O'Sullivan Pdf

Destined to be a classic, Dating for Engineers is the first book of its kind to show engineers and scientists how to use their superior analytical skills to win the heart of the woman of their dreams. Read it and discover: - The inherent advantages of engineers over the rest of society - Mathematical proof that you're not getting enough sex - How the theories of Bertrand Russell and Kurt Gödel can lead to a threesome with two blonde twins - Game theory applications to competitive dating situations - Complete cantilever and macromolecular-hydrodynamical models of red-hot sex - A mathematical decision tool to decide whether to keep your current partner or find someone new - Whether or not marriage necessarily means the end of happiness

Author : Christopher R. Henke,Benjamin Sims
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780262539708

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Repairing Infrastructures by Christopher R. Henke,Benjamin Sims Pdf

An investigation of the causes and consequences of the strange, ambivalent, and increasingly central role of infrastructure repair in modern life. Infrastructures—communication, food, transportation, energy, and information—are all around us, and their enduring function and influence depend on the constant work of repair. In this book, Christopher Henke and Benjamin Sims explore the causes and consequences of the strange, ambivalent, and increasingly central role of infrastructure repair in modern life. Henke and Sims offer examples, from local to global, to investigate not only the role of repair in maintaining infrastructures themselves but also the social and political orders that are created and sustained through them. Repair can encompass not only the kind of work we most commonly associate with the term but also any set of practices aimed at restoring a sense of normalcy or credibility to the places and institutions we inhabit in everyday life. From cases as diverse as the repair of building systems on a university campus, a conflict over retrofitting a bridge while protecting murals painted on it, and the global challenge posed by climate change, Henke and Sims assemble a range of examples to illustrate key conceptual points about the role of repair. They show that repair is an essential if often overlooked aspect of understanding the broader impact and politics of infrastructures. Understanding repair helps us better understand infrastructures and the scope of their influence on our lives.