Bill Hammack: 4 books
by Bill Hammack
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
In over 200 delightful short essays Bill captures the creativity andimpact of engineers. He talks of their spectacular achievements -jets, satellites, skyscrapers, and fiber optics - but draws hisdeepest insights from the everyday, the quotidian. He finds beauty,elegance and meaning in Ferris wheels,...
Fatal Flight
The True Story of Britain's Last Great Airship
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Fatal Flight brings vividly to life the year of operation of R.101, the last great British airship -- a luxury liner three and a half times the length of a 747 jet, with a spacious lounge, a dining room that seated fifty, glass-walled promenade decks, and a smoking room. The British expected R.101...
by Bill Hammack, Patrick Ryan, Nick Ziech
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2011
Eight Amazing Engineering Stories reveals the stories behind how engineers use specific elements to create the material world around us. In eight chapters, the EngineerGuy team exposes the magnificence of the innovation and engineering of digital camera imagers, tiny accelerometers, atomic clocks, enriched...
Michael Faraday’s The Chemical History of a Candle
With Guides to Lectures, Teaching Guides & Student Activities
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2016
This book introduces modern readers to Michael Faraday’s great nineteenth-century lectures on The Chemical History of a Candle. This edition is a companion book to the popular EngineerGuy YouTube series of the lectures. This books contains supplemental material to help readers appreciate Faraday’s...