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Engineering Books
Everywhere we look we see the fascinating achievements
of engineering, from small electronic devices to tall skyscrapers. The
National Geographic Society published two colorful books that enable us
to appreciate the people who lead engineering to its current state.
The Builders: Marvels of Engineering tells the story of the most visible branch
of engineering: civil engineering. Remarkable pictures, accompanied by clear
explanations, of bridges, dams, tunnels, canals, roads and buildings all
around the world. Historical point of view gives us the goals of great
engineers, the problems they solved, and the concepts underlying these
marvelous solutions.
All branches of engineering are covered in Inventors and Discoverers: Changing Our World, which describes the great inventors and inventions of the last two centuries. Henry Ford and the mass-produced car, Thomas Alva Edison and electricity, George Eastman and photography, and many, many others.
Skyscrapers is a very tall book (18 inches) about the history of
skyscrapers, focousing on fifty famous very tall buildings. A beautiful book
with a lot of black & white pictures. The text accompanies the pictures,
and includes also an interview with skyscraper builder Philip Johnson. Some
of the buildings in the book: Washington Monument, Eiffel Tower, Petronas
Towers (Malaysia) and AT&T headquarters (New York).
Bridges, a sequel to Skyscrapers, is a very wide book (18 inches)
about the history of those magnificently wide structures, focusing on
almost fifty famous bridges. With informative text and beautiful pictures,
the book describes London's Tower Bridge, Paris' Pont Neuf, the Golden Gate
Bridge and many others. If you are impressed by each new bridge you see,
this is the book for you.
The story of a bridge is not just about concrete and
steel. It is mainly about the people who created the bridge.
Engineers of Dreams: Great Bridge Builders and the Spanning of America
tells the stories of engineers who created the most famous bridges of
North America, particularly those constructed during the great
bridge-building era starting in the 1870s and continuing through the 1930s.
Henry Petroski, a civil engineering professor, reveals in his book the
vision, ingenuity, and perseverance needed to build those impressive
structures. The stories are not just success stories: some of them, like
that of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge, are about bridges that collapsed, due to
human error.
While reading this page you are using some complex
electronic devices, but do you know anything about these devices, anything
more than pushing the on-off button? If you want to know, try
Bebop to the Boolean Boogie: An Unconventional Guide to Electronics
Fundamentals, Components, and Processes. This book is a highly readable
introduction to the somehow mysterious world of electronics. From the
physics behind electronics through elementary electronic components to
modern integrated circuits, all concepts are explained clearly. The book
contains a comprehensive introduction to boolean algebra, the logical
basis of modern electronics. Many figures and illustrations and a unique
off-beat style make this book a great introduction to anyone who is
interested in electronics.
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