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      The Things We Make

      Bill Hammack

      From Stonehenge to microchips, discover the one simple method used to engineer the world as we know it-now in paperback!

      "This book unravels the mysteries behind humanity's greatest masterpieces." -…

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      Fatal Flight: The True Story of Britain’s Last Great Airship

      Bill Hammack

      Fatal Flight brings vividly to life the year of operation of R.101, the last great British airship-a luxury liner three and a half times the length of a 747 jet…

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      Why engineers need to grow a long tail: A primer on using new media to inform the public and to create the next generation of innovative engineers

      Bill Hammack

      Often the details of new media get lost in an alphabet soup that usually begins with an i - the iPod, the iPad, the iTouch. Yet the essence of new…

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      The Things We Make: The Unknown History of Invention from Cathedrals to Soda Cans

      Bill Hammack

      Discover the secret method used to build the world…

      For millennia, humans have used one simple method to solve problems. Whether it’s planting crops, building skyscrapers, developing photographs, or designing…

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      How engineers create the world: Bill Hammack’s public radio commentaries

      William S Hammack (University of Illinois - Urbana),Bill Hammack

      In over 200 delightful short essays Bill captures the creativity and impact of engineers. He talks of their spectacular achievements - jets, satellites, skyscrapers, and fiber optics - but draws…

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      Albert Michelson’s Harmonic Analyzer: A Visual Tour of a Nineteenth Century Machine that Performs Fourier Analysis

      Steve Kranz,Bruce Carpenter,Bill Hammack

      Albert Michelson’s Harmonic Analyzer celebrates a nineteenth century mechanical calculator that performed Fourier analysis by using gears, springs and levers to calculate with sines and cosines-an astonishing feat in an…

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      Eight Amazing Engineering Stories: Using the Elements to Create Extraordinary Technologies

      Patrick Ryan, Fr (University of Limerick Ireland),Nick Ziech,Bill Hammack

      Eight Amazing Engineering Stories reveals the stories behind how engineers use specific elements to create the material world around us. In eight chapters, the EngineerGuy team exposes the magnificence of…

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