Author: Moritz Rühlman
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Category : Water-wheels
Languages : en
Pages : 112
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On Horizontal Water-wheels, Especially Turbines Or Whirl-wheels
Author: Moritz Rühlman
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Category : Water-wheels
Languages : en
Pages : 112
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Category : Water-wheels
Languages : en
Pages : 112
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Stronger Than a Hundred Men
Author: Terry S. Reynolds
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801872488
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
Like many apparently simple devices, the vertical water wheel has been around for so long that it is taken for granted. Yet this "picturesque artifact" was for centuries man's primary mechanical source of power and was the foundation upon which mills and other industries developed. Stronger than a Hundred Men explores the development of the vertical water wheel from its invention in ancient times through its eventual demise as a source of power during the Industrial Revolution. Spanning more than 2000 years, Terry Reynolds's account follows the progression of this labor-saving device from Asia to the Middle East, Europe, and America-covering the evolution of the water wheel itself, the development of dams and reservoirs, and the applications of water power.
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801872488
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
Like many apparently simple devices, the vertical water wheel has been around for so long that it is taken for granted. Yet this "picturesque artifact" was for centuries man's primary mechanical source of power and was the foundation upon which mills and other industries developed. Stronger than a Hundred Men explores the development of the vertical water wheel from its invention in ancient times through its eventual demise as a source of power during the Industrial Revolution. Spanning more than 2000 years, Terry Reynolds's account follows the progression of this labor-saving device from Asia to the Middle East, Europe, and America-covering the evolution of the water wheel itself, the development of dams and reservoirs, and the applications of water power.
The Celtic and Scandinavian Antiquities of Shetland
Author: Gilbert Goudie
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 332
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 332
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The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 444
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 444
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The Edinburgh Philosophical Journal
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Languages : en
Pages : 448
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Languages : en
Pages : 448
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Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland
Author: Society of Antiquaries of Scotland
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Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 524
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Includes List of members.
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Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 524
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Includes List of members.
Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland
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Languages : en
Pages : 524
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Languages : en
Pages : 524
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Mountain Battery
Author: Marc Landry
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 1503641589
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
By the end of the nineteenth century, Europeans had come to see the Alps as the ideal place to fashion an alternative to the era's dominant energy source: coal. After 1850, Alpine water increasingly became "white coal": a power source with the revolutionary economic potential of fossil fuel. In this book, Marc Landry shows how dam-building in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries transformed the Alps into Europe's "battery"—an energy landscape designed to store and produce electricity for use throughout the Continent. These stores of energy played an important role in supplying the war economies of west-central Europe in both world wars as demand for munitions and other factory production necessitated access to electrical energy and the conservation of coal. Through historical research conducted in archives across Europe—especially in Germany, Austria, France, Switzerland, and Italy—Landry shows how and why Europeans thoroughly transformed the Alps in order to generate hydroelectricity, and explores the effects of its attendant economic and military advantages across the turbulent twentieth century. Landry surveys the environmental and energy changes wrought by dam-building, demonstrating that with global warming, melting glaciers, and calls for a green energy transition, the future of white coal is once again in question in twenty-first-century Europe.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 1503641589
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
By the end of the nineteenth century, Europeans had come to see the Alps as the ideal place to fashion an alternative to the era's dominant energy source: coal. After 1850, Alpine water increasingly became "white coal": a power source with the revolutionary economic potential of fossil fuel. In this book, Marc Landry shows how dam-building in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries transformed the Alps into Europe's "battery"—an energy landscape designed to store and produce electricity for use throughout the Continent. These stores of energy played an important role in supplying the war economies of west-central Europe in both world wars as demand for munitions and other factory production necessitated access to electrical energy and the conservation of coal. Through historical research conducted in archives across Europe—especially in Germany, Austria, France, Switzerland, and Italy—Landry shows how and why Europeans thoroughly transformed the Alps in order to generate hydroelectricity, and explores the effects of its attendant economic and military advantages across the turbulent twentieth century. Landry surveys the environmental and energy changes wrought by dam-building, demonstrating that with global warming, melting glaciers, and calls for a green energy transition, the future of white coal is once again in question in twenty-first-century Europe.
A Treatise on Fractures in the Vicinity of Joints and on Certain Forms of Accidental and Congenital Dislocations
Author: Robert William SMITH (M.D.)
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Languages : en
Pages : 354
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Languages : en
Pages : 354
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Catalogue of the Library of the Great Seal Patent Office
Author: Great Britain. Patent Office. Library
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Languages : en
Pages : 428
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Languages : en
Pages : 428
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