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Bezig met laden... Technische uitvindingen en constructies van de katapult tot de Marsrover Curiosity : 250 mijlpalen in de geschiedenis van de technologie (2015)door Marshall Brain
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Engineering is where human knowledge meets real-world problems--and solves them. It's the source of some of our greatest inventions, from the catapult to the jet engine, from the cell phone to the Large Hadron Collider. Marshall Brain, creator of the How Stuff Works series, provides a detailed look at 250 milestones in aerospace, architecture, chemistry, computer engineering, and more, from ancient history to the present. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)620.009Technology Engineering and allied operations Engineering General Engineering Biography And HistoryLC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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Not that there aren't mistakes or missteps out there. The book also lists the Hindenburg disaster, the Chernobyl disaster, the Fukushima Plant disaster and others.
All throughout the book, you can feel the reverence that Marshall Brain feels for these men and women that have made life easier for the billions of us that live on this planet. It goes slightly into the Science Fiction genre at the end, but not entirely. The final few entries are for things that have yet to be invented and can only have an estimated date. They are Vactrains, Brain Replication, Mars Colony and Things We Have Yet To Engineer. All of these things are unfeasible with our current technology, and Mr. Brain explains why, so I suppose they make sense in being in there.
Things we have Yet to Engineer could cover a whole book on itself I am sure. A lot of them are silly ideas, or taken from movies and thus have no basis in current science. For instance, it mentions the Flying Car as something that would present a host of problems due to cost, stability and weight concerns. However, the author does have hopes for the future. After all, the communicator in Star Trek was a lot like the cell phones of today, and that only took them about thirty years. I certainly look forward to what people are capable of. ( )