Ioan James

Remarkable Engineers (eBook, PDF)

From Riquet to Shannon

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Februar 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511686122
• Artikelnr.: 38197813

Autorenporträt

Ioan James is Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford and has had a distinguished career as a research mathematician. In recent years he has become interested in the history and development of scientific disciplines and the scientists involved. He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1968. He is also the author of Remarkable Mathematicians, Remarkable Physicists, and Remarkable Biologists, all published by Cambridge University Press.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. From Peter Paul Riquet to James Watt: Peter Paul Riquet (1604
1680); Sebastien le Prestre de Vauban (1633
1707); James Brindley (1716
1772); John Smeaton (1724
1792); James Watt (1736
1819); Part II. From William Jessop to Marc Brunel: William Jessop (1745
1814); Lazare Carnot (1753
1823); Thomas Telford (1757
1834); John Rennie (1761
1821); Sir Marc Isambard Brunel (1769
1849); Part III. From Richard Trevithick to Sadi Carnot: Richard Trevithick (1771
1833); Sir George Cayley (1773
1857); George Stephenson (1781
1848); Charles Babbage (1792
1871); Charles Vignoles (1793
1875); Sadi Carnot (1796
1832); Part IV. From Joseph Henry to Sir Joseph William Bazalgette: Joseph Henry (1797
1878); John Ericsson (1803
1899); Robert Stephenson (1803
1859); Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1806
1859); John Roebling (1806
1869); Sir Joseph William Bazalgette (1819
1891); Part V. From James Buchanan Eads to Alexander Graham Bell: James Buchanan Eads (1820
1887); William Thomson (Lord Kelvin) (1824
1907); Gustav Eiffel (1832
1923); George Westinghouse (1846
1914); Thomas Alva Edison (1847
1931); Alexander Graham Bell (1847
1922); Part VI. From Ferdinand Braun to Heinrich Hertz: Ferdinand Braun (1850
1918); Hertha Ayrton (1854
1923); Charles Parsons (1854
1931); Granville Woods (1856
1910); Nikola Tesla (1856
1943); Heinrich Hertz (1857
1894); Part VII. From Rudolf Diesel to Guglielmo Marconi: Rudolf Diesel (1858
1913); Elmer Sperry (1860
1930); Wilbur Wright (1867
1912) and Orville Wright (1871
1948); Frederick Lanchester (1868
1946); Guglielmo Marconi (1874
1937); Part VIII. From Peter Pal'chinskii to Vladimir Zworykin: Peter Pal'chinskii (1875
1929); Edith Clarke (1883
1958); Andrei Tupolev (1888
1972); John Logie Baird (1888
1946); Vladimir Zworykin (1889
1982); Part IX. From Dennis Gabor to Claude Shannon: Dennis Gabor (1900
1979); Sergei Pavlovich Korolev (1906
1966); Frank Whittle (1907
1996); William Shockley (1910
1989); Wernher von Braun (1912
1977); Claude Shannon (1916
2001).