From Menagerie to Zoological Park in the Nineteenth Century
From King Solomon's collections of ''apes and peacocks'' to the menageries of English and Hapsburg monarchs, the display of exotic animals has delighted and amazed observers for centuries. Originally prized as symbols of elite wealth and power, such collections have been dramatically transformed since 1800--particularly in terms of audience and ......
On April 13, 1970, some 205,000 miles from Earth, an explosion rocked the moon-bound Apollo 13, taking our both engines of the command module and crippling the life-support system. Guided by the ground crew in Huston, the crew took refuge in the lunar module and used its engines, almost in the fashion of an outboard motor, to maneuver the craft ......
Offers a view of the development of nuclear weapons from the perspective of the scientist. This book discusses such topics as the discovery of fission, the Manhattan Project, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the arms race, and steps towards arms control. It provides a context for developments in the period 1939-1963.
Historical Perspectives is a compilation of the 1991 lectures presented for the series and provides a fresh looka t plant science via anecdotes and personal knowledge.
High Technology and Organizational Change in the U.S. Space Program
Inside NASA explores how an agency praised for its planetary probes and expeditions to the moon became notorious for the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger and a series of other malfunctions. Using archival evidence as well as in-depth interviews with space agency officials, Howard McCurdy investigates the relationship between the ......
What is science? Is social science a science? Why are more and more so-called scientific discoveries being exposed as outright frauds? Henry Bauer tackles these and many more intriguing questions that are emerging from within the academic and scientific communities and attracting attention from the popular media and the general public. Whether one ......
Awarded the Dexter Prize of the Society for the History of Technology.''Superb . . . In this careful study of a single inventor, Hughes has done more to demonstrate the `questionable' nature of traditional accounts of invention than all of the theoretical arguments of the past few years combined.''--Technology and Culture.Softshell Books.
This is the story of the 'other' Thomas Edison -- not the heroic lone inventor, but Edison the businessman, industrialist, and successful manager of one of the world's largest industrial research laboratories. Tracing his career from his boyhood to his death in 1931, Edison and the Business of Innovation reveals Edison to be an entrepreneur of ......
''[This book's] timeliness is remarkable. Now that the Western system of responsible (that is, profit-based) production has emerged as the victor over command economies, the secrets of how we did it may replace foreign relations as `topic A' at conferences, and historians who continue to reject `material civilization' as unworthy of genuine ......
