Author: Worthington Pump and Machinery Corporation
Publisher:
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Category : Corporations
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
100 Years, 1840-1940, Worthington
Author: Worthington Pump and Machinery Corporation
Publisher:
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Category : Corporations
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Corporations
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
Watering the Revolution
Author: Mikael D. Wolfe
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822373068
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
In Watering the Revolution Mikael D. Wolfe transforms our understanding of Mexican agrarian reform through an environmental and technological history of water management in the emblematic Laguna region. Drawing on extensive archival research in Mexico and the United States, Wolfe shows how during the long Mexican Revolution (1910-1940) engineers’ distribution of water paradoxically undermined land distribution. In so doing, he highlights the intrinsic tension engineers faced between the urgent need for water conservation and the imperative for development during the contentious modernization of the Laguna's existing flood irrigation method into one regulated by high dams, concrete-lined canals, and motorized groundwater pumps. This tension generally resolved in favor of development, which unintentionally diminished and contaminated the water supply while deepening existing rural social inequalities by dividing people into water haves and have-nots, regardless of their access to land. By uncovering the varied motivations behind the Mexican government’s decision to use invasive and damaging technologies despite knowing they were ecologically unsustainable, Wolfe tells a cautionary tale of the long-term consequences of short-sighted development policies.
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822373068
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
In Watering the Revolution Mikael D. Wolfe transforms our understanding of Mexican agrarian reform through an environmental and technological history of water management in the emblematic Laguna region. Drawing on extensive archival research in Mexico and the United States, Wolfe shows how during the long Mexican Revolution (1910-1940) engineers’ distribution of water paradoxically undermined land distribution. In so doing, he highlights the intrinsic tension engineers faced between the urgent need for water conservation and the imperative for development during the contentious modernization of the Laguna's existing flood irrigation method into one regulated by high dams, concrete-lined canals, and motorized groundwater pumps. This tension generally resolved in favor of development, which unintentionally diminished and contaminated the water supply while deepening existing rural social inequalities by dividing people into water haves and have-nots, regardless of their access to land. By uncovering the varied motivations behind the Mexican government’s decision to use invasive and damaging technologies despite knowing they were ecologically unsustainable, Wolfe tells a cautionary tale of the long-term consequences of short-sighted development policies.
The Log
Author:
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Category : Marine engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Marine engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
The Kid of Coney Island
Author: Woody Register
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780195167320
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
A portrait of the pioneering entrepreneur who designed and built Luna Park - which in 1903 transformed Coney Island into a respectable venue for middle-class recreation - and created the Hippodrome, the world's largest theater when it opened in 1905, filling it with lavish spectacles at affordable ticket prices. The author also explores the development of the idea of adult amusements in America during Thompson's day, and ours.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780195167320
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
A portrait of the pioneering entrepreneur who designed and built Luna Park - which in 1903 transformed Coney Island into a respectable venue for middle-class recreation - and created the Hippodrome, the world's largest theater when it opened in 1905, filling it with lavish spectacles at affordable ticket prices. The author also explores the development of the idea of adult amusements in America during Thompson's day, and ours.
Railway Age
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 1422
Book Description
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 1422
Book Description
History of Technology Volume 8
Author: Norman Smith
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 135001821X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
The technical problems confronting different societies and periods, and the measures taken to solve them form the concern of this annual collection of essays. Volumes contain technical articles ranging widely in subject, time and region, as well as general papers on the history of technology. In addition to dealing with the history of technical discovery and change, History of Technology also explores the relations of technology to other aspects of life -- social, cultural and economic -- and shows how technological development has shaped, and been shaped by, the society in which it occurred.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 135001821X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
The technical problems confronting different societies and periods, and the measures taken to solve them form the concern of this annual collection of essays. Volumes contain technical articles ranging widely in subject, time and region, as well as general papers on the history of technology. In addition to dealing with the history of technical discovery and change, History of Technology also explores the relations of technology to other aspects of life -- social, cultural and economic -- and shows how technological development has shaped, and been shaped by, the society in which it occurred.
Catalog of Copyright Entries. Part 1. [B] Group 2. Pamphlets, Etc. New Series
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 934
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 934
Book Description
Catalogue of Title-entries of Books and Other Articles Entered in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, Under the Copyright Law ... Wherein the Copyright Has Been Completed by the Deposit of Two Copies in the Office
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright Office
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Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 1536
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 1536
Book Description
Refrigeration Engineering
Author:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 858
Book Description
English abstracts from Kholodil'naia tekhnika.
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 858
Book Description
English abstracts from Kholodil'naia tekhnika.
The Works
Author: Betsy H. Bradley
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780195090000
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
While tracing the important developments in industrial architecture over a one-hundred-year period, she demonstrates that as the United States became an industrialized nation, the goals pursued in industrial architecture remained straightforward and constant even as the means to achieve them changed.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780195090000
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
While tracing the important developments in industrial architecture over a one-hundred-year period, she demonstrates that as the United States became an industrialized nation, the goals pursued in industrial architecture remained straightforward and constant even as the means to achieve them changed.