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Ancient Engineers' Inventions: Precursors of the Present (History of Mechanism and Machine Science)

Springer, 2009

This book describes inventions and designs of ancient engineers that are the precursors of the present. The ages mainly range from 300 B.C. to 1600 A.D. with some exceptions from before and after this period.

As for the very ancient ones, the book describes inventions (documented by archaeological finds mainly from Pompei, Ercolano and Stabia)...

Cam Design Handbook: Dynamics and Accuracy

McGraw-Hill, 2003

Packed with hundreds of detailed illustrations! THE DEFINITIVE GUIDE TO CAM TECHNOLOGY!

The transformation of a simple motion, such as rotation, into linear or other motion is accomplished by means of a cam -- two moving elements mounted on a fixed frame. Cam devices are versatile -- almost any specified motion can be...

Audio Signal Processing for Next-Generation Multimedia Communication Systems

Springer, 2004

This book has its origins in the Multimedia Communications Research Center at Bell Laboratories. It will likely be the last thing coming from this Center, since it no longer exists. This book reflects our vision on next-generation multimedia communication systems, shared by many researchers who worked with us at a time in the last several years in...

Scientific and Technological Thinking

Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2004

At the turn of the 21st century, the most valuable commodity in society is knowledge--particularly new knowledge that may give a culture, company, or laboratory an adaptive advantage. Knowledge about the cognitive processes that lead to discovery and invention can enhance the probability of making valuable new discoveries and inventions. Such...

Genetic Programming IV: Routine Human-Competitive Machine Intelligence

Springer, 2005

Genetic Programming IV: Routine Human-Competitive Machine Intelligence presents the application of GP to a wide variety of problems involving automated synthesis of controllers, circuits, antennas, genetic networks, and metabolic pathways. The book describes fifteen instances where GP has created an entity that either...

Understanding Information Transmission (IEEE Press Understanding Science &Technology Series)

John Wiley & Sons, 2005

Understanding Information Transmission introduces you to the entire field of information technology. In this consumer handbook and introductory student resource, seven chapters span the gamut of the field—the nature, storage, transmission, networking, and protection of information. In addition to the science and technology, this book...

Object Design: Roles, Responsibilities, and Collaborations

Addison Wesley, 2002

If you create software using object-oriented languages and tools, then Responsibility-Driven Design has likely influenced your work. For over ten years Responsibility-Driven Design methodology has been the standard bearer of the behavioral approach to designing object-oriented software. Object Design: Roles, Responsibilities, and...

When Pancakes Go Bad: Optical Delusions with Adobe Photoshop

Course Technology PTR, 2004

If you've ever found yourself looking at funny images and thinking "Hey, how?d they do that?", this is the book that will give you the answer! Learn how to have fun with photos?swapping pictures of historical inventions with modern-day appliances or combining images of animals to produce unrealistic characters. "When Pancakes Go...

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