Author: James Waddel Alexander
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Conduct of life
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
The American Mechanic
Author: James Waddel Alexander
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Conduct of life
Languages : en
Pages : 294
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Conduct of life
Languages : en
Pages : 294
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Auto Mechanics
Author: Kevin L. Borg
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801886065
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
The history of automobiles is not just the story of invention, manufacturing, and marketing; it is also a story of repair. Auto Mechanics opens the repair shop to historical study—for the first time—by tracing the emergence of a dirty, difficult, and important profession. Kevin L. Borg's study spans a century of automotive technology—from the horseless carriage of the late nineteenth century to the "check engine" light of the late twentieth. Drawing from a diverse body of source material, Borg explores how the mechanic’s occupation formed and evolved within the context of broad American fault lines of class, race, and gender and how vocational education entwined these tensions around the mechanic’s unique expertise. He further shows how aspects of the consumer rights and environmental movements, as well as the design of automotive electronics, reflected and challenged the social identity and expertise of the mechanic. In the history of the American auto mechanic, Borg finds the origins of a persistent anxiety that even today accompanies the prospect of taking one's car in for repair.
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801886065
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
The history of automobiles is not just the story of invention, manufacturing, and marketing; it is also a story of repair. Auto Mechanics opens the repair shop to historical study—for the first time—by tracing the emergence of a dirty, difficult, and important profession. Kevin L. Borg's study spans a century of automotive technology—from the horseless carriage of the late nineteenth century to the "check engine" light of the late twentieth. Drawing from a diverse body of source material, Borg explores how the mechanic’s occupation formed and evolved within the context of broad American fault lines of class, race, and gender and how vocational education entwined these tensions around the mechanic’s unique expertise. He further shows how aspects of the consumer rights and environmental movements, as well as the design of automotive electronics, reflected and challenged the social identity and expertise of the mechanic. In the history of the American auto mechanic, Borg finds the origins of a persistent anxiety that even today accompanies the prospect of taking one's car in for repair.
The Billionaire and the Mechanic
Author: Julian Guthrie
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN: 0802121365
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
Expanded to include the behind-the-scenes story of the 34th America’s Cup and Team USA’s incredible comeback Down eight-to-one in the 34th America’s Cup in September 2013, Oracle Team USA pulled off a comeback for the ages, with eight straight wins against Emirates Team New Zealand. Julian Guthrie’s The Billionaire and the Mechanic tells the incredible story of how a car mechanic and one of the world’s richest men teamed up to win the world’s greatest race. With a lengthy new section on the 34th America’s Cup, Guthrie also shows how they did it again. The America’s Cup, first awarded in 1851, is the oldest trophy in international sports. In 2000, Larry Ellison, co-founder and billionaire CEO of Oracle Corporation, decided to run for the prize and found an unlikely partner in Norbert Bajurin, a car mechanic and Commodore of the blue-collar Golden Gate Yacht Club. After unsuccessful runs for the Cup in 2003 and 2007, they won for the first time in 2010. With unparalleled access to Ellison and his team, Guthrie takes readers inside the building process of these astonishing boats and the lives of the athletes who race them and throws readers into exhilarating races from Australia to Valencia.
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN: 0802121365
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
Expanded to include the behind-the-scenes story of the 34th America’s Cup and Team USA’s incredible comeback Down eight-to-one in the 34th America’s Cup in September 2013, Oracle Team USA pulled off a comeback for the ages, with eight straight wins against Emirates Team New Zealand. Julian Guthrie’s The Billionaire and the Mechanic tells the incredible story of how a car mechanic and one of the world’s richest men teamed up to win the world’s greatest race. With a lengthy new section on the 34th America’s Cup, Guthrie also shows how they did it again. The America’s Cup, first awarded in 1851, is the oldest trophy in international sports. In 2000, Larry Ellison, co-founder and billionaire CEO of Oracle Corporation, decided to run for the prize and found an unlikely partner in Norbert Bajurin, a car mechanic and Commodore of the blue-collar Golden Gate Yacht Club. After unsuccessful runs for the Cup in 2003 and 2007, they won for the first time in 2010. With unparalleled access to Ellison and his team, Guthrie takes readers inside the building process of these astonishing boats and the lives of the athletes who race them and throws readers into exhilarating races from Australia to Valencia.
Maggie the Mechanic
Author: Jaime Hernandez
Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
ISBN: 1560977841
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
The first of three volumes chronicles the globe-trotting adventures and exploits of Maggie, her best friend and occasional lover Hopey, and their companions, Peggy Century, her weirdo mentor Izzy, aging wrestler Rena Titanon, and Maggie's new love interest, Rand Race. Original.
Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
ISBN: 1560977841
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
The first of three volumes chronicles the globe-trotting adventures and exploits of Maggie, her best friend and occasional lover Hopey, and their companions, Peggy Century, her weirdo mentor Izzy, aging wrestler Rena Titanon, and Maggie's new love interest, Rand Race. Original.
The American Mechanic and Working-man
Author: James Waddel Alexander
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Labor
Languages : en
Pages : 302
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Labor
Languages : en
Pages : 302
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Physics Mechanics
Author: American Modeling Teachers Association
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780999073544
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Coursepack to support Modeling Instruction pedagogy for introductory physics mechanics
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780999073544
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Coursepack to support Modeling Instruction pedagogy for introductory physics mechanics
American Clipper Ships, 1833-1858
Author: Octavius Thorndike Howe
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Clipper ships
Languages : en
Pages : 458
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Clipper ships
Languages : en
Pages : 458
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Memoirs of the Most Eminent American Mechanics
Author: Henry Howe
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Industrial arts
Languages : en
Pages : 506
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Industrial arts
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
Constitution and By-laws of the American Railway Master Mechanics' Association, and Proceedings of the Meeting ...
Author: American Railway Master Mechanics' Association
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 372
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 372
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The Franklin Journal, and American Mechanics' Magazine
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 916
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 916
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