The Electrical Age

Author : W. Bernard Carlson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2015-04-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780691165615

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Tesla by W. Bernard Carlson Pdf

Nikola Tesla was a major contributor to the electrical revolution that transformed daily life at the turn of the twentieth century. His inventions, patents, and theoretical work formed the basis of modern AC electricity, and contributed to the development of radio and television. Like his competitor Thomas Edison, Tesla was one of America's first celebrity scientists, enjoying the company of New York high society and dazzling the likes of Mark Twain with his electrical demonstrations. An astute self-promoter and gifted showman, he cultivated a public image of the eccentric genius. Even at the end of his life when he was living in poverty, Tesla still attracted reporters to his annual birthday interview, regaling them with claims that he had invented a particle-beam weapon capable of bringing down enemy aircraft. Plenty of biographies glamorize Tesla and his eccentricities, but until now none has carefully examined what, how, and why he invented. In this groundbreaking book, W. Bernard Carlson demystifies the legendary inventor, placing him within the cultural and technological context of his time, and focusing on his inventions themselves as well as the creation and maintenance of his celebrity. Drawing on original documents from Tesla's private and public life, Carlson shows how he was an "idealist" inventor who sought the perfect experimental realization of a great idea or principle, and who skillfully sold his inventions to the public through mythmaking and illusion. This major biography sheds new light on Tesla's visionary approach to invention and the business strategies behind his most important technological breakthroughs.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 912 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Electronic
ISBN : CHI:70757887

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The Electrical Age by Anonim Pdf

Author : Ernest Freeberg
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013-02-21
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781101605479

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The Age of Edison by Ernest Freeberg Pdf

A sweeping history of the electric light revolution and the birth of modern America The late nineteenth century was a period of explosive technological creativity, but more than any other invention, Thomas Edison’s incandescent light bulb marked the arrival of modernity, transforming its inventor into a mythic figure and avatar of an era. In The Age of Edison, award-winning author and historian Ernest Freeberg weaves a narrative that reaches from Coney Island and Broadway to the tiniest towns of rural America, tracing the progress of electric light through the reactions of everyone who saw it and capturing the wonder Edison’s invention inspired. It is a quintessentially American story of ingenuity, ambition, and possibility in which the greater forces of progress and change are made by one of our most humble and ubiquitous objects.

Author : Frederik Nebeker
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 565 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2009-03-30
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780470260654

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Dawn of the Electronic Age by Frederik Nebeker Pdf

A comprehensive and fascinating account of electrical and electronics history Much of the infrastructure of today's industrialized world arose in the period from the outbreak of World War I to the conclusion of World War II. It was during these years that the capabilities of traditional electrical engineering—generators, power transmission, motors, electric lighting and heating, home appliances, and so on—became ubiquitous. Even more importantly, it was during this time that a new type of electrical engineering—electronics—emerged. Because of its applications in communications (both wire-based and wireless), entertainment (notably radio, the phonograph, and sound movies), industry, science and medicine, and the military, the electronics industry became a major part of the economy. Dawn of the Electronic Age?explores how this engineering knowledge and its main applications developed in various scientific, economic, and social contexts, and explains how each was profoundly affected by electrical technologies. It takes an international perspective and a narrative approach, unfolding the story chronologically. Though a scholarly study (with sources of information given in endnotes for engineers and historians of science and technology), the book is intended for the general public.?Ultimately, it tells the story of the development of a new realm of engineering and its widespread applications during the remarkable and tragic period of two world wars and the decades in between.

Author : Jeffrey Schnapp,Adam Michaels
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2012-01-25
Category : Design
ISBN : 1616890347

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The Electric Information Age Book by Jeffrey Schnapp,Adam Michaels Pdf

The Electric Information Age Book explores the nine-year window of mass-market publishing in the sixties and seventies when formerly backstage players-designers, graphic artists, editors-stepped into the spotlight to produce a series of exceptional books. Aimed squarely at the young media-savvy consumers of the "Electronic Information Age," these small, inexpensive paperbacks aimed to bring the ideas of contemporary thinkers like Marshall McLuhan, R. Buckminster Fuller, Herman Kahn, and Carl Sagan to the masses. Graphic designers such as Quentin Fiore (The Medium Is the Massage, 1967) employed a variety of radical techniques-verbal visual collages and other typographic pyrotechnics-that were as important to the content as the text. The Electric Information Age Book is the first book-length history of this brief yet highly influential publishing phenomenon.

Author : Harold I. Sharlin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:20501339308

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The making of the electrical age by Harold I. Sharlin Pdf

Author : Rolf E. Hummel
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2006-05-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780387266916

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Understanding Materials Science by Rolf E. Hummel Pdf

This introduction for engineers examines not only the physical properties of materials, but also their history, uses, development, and some of the implications of resource depletion and materials substitutions.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 716 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1905
Category : Electronic
ISBN : CHI:106635935

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The Electrical Age by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 816 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Electronic
ISBN : COLUMBIA:CU05665795

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Electrical Age by Anonim Pdf

Author : Marc Treib
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781135763190

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Drawing/Thinking by Marc Treib Pdf

Bringing together authors from the fields of architecture, landscape architecture and art, this book addresses the question ‘Why draw?’ by examining the various dynamic relationships between media, process, thought and environment.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : SHOGAKUKAN
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2011-09-13
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1421542374

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Thomas Edison by Anonim Pdf

The lives of great figures in history are full of inspiring and moving episodes. Young people especially can learn from these stories, gaining hope, courage, and even hints on how to live their own lives. Children everywhere benefit from reading about the lives of heroic achievers, and indeed, these stories are an important part of their education and growth. Shogakukan Biographical Comics is a series of biographies of inspirational historical figures in an easy-to-read manga format. These books are as fun to read as any manga, but the stories they tell are based entirely on historical fact. Every volume includes a map and a historical timeline, rounding out a package that teaches even as it entertains. The creator of over 1,300 inventions that have shaped our modern world, Thomas Alva Edison was truly the “king of invention.” The movie projector, the phonograph, the storage battery, and the electric light bulb are just a few of the revolutionary devices Edison invented that have enriched our lives and even changed the course of civilization.

Author : Ryan Young
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1547040521

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Nikola Tesla by Ryan Young Pdf

Nikola Tesla, a Serbian American, was a major contributor to the start of the electric age, which transformed daily life at the turn of the twentieth century. His inventions, patents, and theoretical work formed the basis of the modern AC electricity system. Meanwhile, his inventive genius led to the development of the radio, the television, and the modern world as we know it. Tesla was one of America's first celebrity scientists, much like his competitor Thomas Edison. He enjoyed the company of New York high society, dined at the finest restaurants, and amazed the likes of Mark Twain with his electrical demonstrations. An astute and gifted showman, he cultivated a public image of the eccentric genius, though his business skills were lacking. Tesla's last few years were spent alone, living in poverty in a hotel room paid for by George Westinghouse. Read this book and delve into the life of a fascinating man who helped change the world with his inventions.

Author : Denis Le Bihan
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780691160610

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Looking Inside the Brain by Denis Le Bihan Pdf

The remarkable story of how today's brain scanning techniques were developed, told by one of the field's pioneers It is now possible to witness human brain activity while we are talking, reading, or thinking, thanks to revolutionary neuroimaging techniques like magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). These groundbreaking advances have opened infinite fields of investigation—into such areas as musical perception, brain development in utero, and faulty brain connections leading to psychiatric disorders—and have raised unprecedented ethical issues. In Looking Inside the Brain, one of the leading pioneers of the field, Denis Le Bihan, offers an engaging account of the sophisticated interdisciplinary research in physics, neuroscience, and medicine that have led to the remarkable neuroimaging methods that give us a detailed look into the human brain. Introducing neurological anatomy and physiology, Le Bihan walks readers through the historical evolution of imaging technology—from the x-ray and CT scan to the PET scan and MRI—and he explains how neuroimaging uncovers afflictions like stroke or cancer and the workings of higher-order brain activities, such as language skills. Le Bihan also takes readers on a behind-the-scenes journey through NeuroSpin, his state-of-the-art neuroimaging laboratory, and goes over the cutting-edge scanning devices currently being developed. Considering what we see when we look at brain images, Le Bihan weighs what might be revealed about our thoughts and unconscious, and discusses how far this technology might go in the future. Beautifully illustrated in color, Looking Inside the Brain presents the trailblazing story of the scanning techniques that provide keys to previously unimagined knowledge of our brains and our selves.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1910
Category : Electrical engineering
ISBN : STANFORD:36105025732483

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Electrical Age by Anonim Pdf

Author : Ray Kurzweil
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781101077887

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The Age of Spiritual Machines by Ray Kurzweil Pdf

Ray Kurzweil is the inventor of the most innovative and compelling technology of our era, an international authority on artificial intelligence, and one of our greatest living visionaries. Now he offers a framework for envisioning the twenty-first century--an age in which the marriage of human sensitivity and artificial intelligence fundamentally alters and improves the way we live. Kurzweil's prophetic blueprint for the future takes us through the advances that inexorably result in computers exceeding the memory capacity and computational ability of the human brain by the year 2020 (with human-level capabilities not far behind); in relationships with automated personalities who will be our teachers, companions, and lovers; and in information fed straight into our brains along direct neural pathways. Optimistic and challenging, thought-provoking and engaging, The Age of Spiritual Machines is the ultimate guide on our road into the next century.