Search results for “[Subject: technology-inventions]”

• Author(s): Lillian Hoddeson | Peter Garrett • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Science & TechnologyThe first full-length biography of a brilliant, self-taught inventor whose innovations in information and energy ...

• Author(s): Joan Lisa Bromberg • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Lasers & PhotonicsIn this book Joan Lisa Bromberg brings a historian's broad perspective to bear on the formative years of laser research in the Un...

• Author(s): Ainissa Ramirez • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Chemistry - Physical & TheoreticalA "timely, informative, and fascinating" study of 8 inventions--and how they shaped our world--with "totally compell...

• Author(s): Vaclav Smil • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: InventionsThe story of how diesel engines and gas turbines, used to power cargo ships and jet airplanes, made today's globally integrated economy possible.The...

• Author(s): Nancy Forbes • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Computer ScienceHow scientists are using nature as model and metaphor to reinvent computing: a survey of an emerging field.As computers and the tasks they pe...

• Author(s): Siegfried Zielinski | Gloria Custance • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Media StudiesA quest to find something new by excavating the "deep time" of media's development--not by simply looking at new media'...

• Author(s): Valtteri Arstila | Dan Lloyd • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: MetaphysicsInterdisciplinary perspectives on the feature of conscious life that scaffolds every act of cognition: subjective time. Our awaren...

• Author(s): Lorenzo Chiesa • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: CriticismThe evolution of the concept of subjectivity in the works of Jacques Lacan.Countering the call by some "pro-Lacanians" for an end to the exegesis ...

• Author(s): Tom Huhn | Lambert Zuidervaart • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: AestheticsTheodor W. Adorno died in 1969 and his last major work, Ästhetische Theorie, was published posthumously a year later. Few philoso...

• Author(s): Eric S. Hintz • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: InventionsHow America's individual inventors persisted alongside corporate R&D labs as an important source of inventions. During the nineteenth century,...

• Author(s): Aron Vinegar • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: AestheticsA theorization of habit that emphasizes its excessive and unsettling qualities rather than its mediating, adaptive, and stabilizing functions. Subj...