Overview

Instant Engineering pulls together all the pivotal engineering theories and discoveries into one concise volume. Each page contains a discrete 'cheat sheet', which tells you the most important facts in bite-sized chunks, meaning you can become an expert in an instant. From Archimedes to Elon Musk, from screws and pulleys to the steam engine, and from the canal boat to the space rocket, every key figure, theory or term is expressed in succinct and lively text and graphics. Perfect for the knowledge hungry and time poor, this collection of graphic-led lessons makes engineering interesting and accessible. Everything you need to know and more is here.

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Author:   Joel Levy
Publisher:   Headline Publishing Group
Imprint:   Welbeck
Dimensions:   Width: 18.60cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 23.60cm
Weight:   0.500kg
ISBN:  

9781787393233

ISBN 10:   1787393232
Pages:   176
Publication Date:   05 March 2020
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order  
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Table of Contents

AC vs DC Air ships Othmar Ammann Andre Marie Ampere Amps Arch Archimedes Richard Arkwright Baron William George Armstrong Ove Arup Charles Babbage John Bardeen Frank Barnwell Sir Joseph Bazalgette Beam Alexander Graham Bell Karl Benz Tim Berners-Lee Henry Bessemer Bicycles Bioengineering Forrest Bird Bridges Sergei Brin James Brindley Walter Houser Brattain Isambard Kingdom Brunel Cameras Canals Cannon Capacitor Sadi Carnot Sir John Charnley Maxwell James Clerk Clocks Column Computers Control Rookes Evelyn Bell Crompton Leonardo da Vinci Gottlieb Daimler Dams Charles de Coulomb Sebastian Ziani de Ferranti Lee De Forest Rudolf Diesel Thomas Edison Gustav Eiffel Willem Einthoven Elasticity Electric light Electricity supply Electromagnetic waves Energy Michael Faraday Farm equipment - tractor, thresher, etc Roy Fedden Enrico Fermi Reginald Fessenden John Ambrose Fleming Henry Ford Baronet Sir John Fowler Robert Goddard Wilson Greatbatch Gunpowder, guns & revolvers Sir William Halcrow William Harris Heavier than air aeroplanes Heinrich Hertz Stanley Hooker John Hopps Charles Hufnagel Information Technology Internal combustion engine Jet engine Jobs Steve James Joule Fazlur Kahn Kilby Jack John Logie Baird Robert Maillart Guglielmo Marconi Mechanics Christian Menn Gordon Moore Samuel Morse Elon Musk Thomas Newcomen Robert Noyce Georg Simon Ohm Ohm's Law Nicolaus Otto Larry Page Sir Charles Parsons Plough Sir Alfred Pugsley Pulleys Pumps Railway William Macquorn Rankine Reinforced Concrete Resistor Osborne Reynolds Risk Roads Robots Rockets John Roebling Thomas Savery Jorg Schlaich Ships William Bradford Shockley Sir Alec Skempton Skyscraper Slab John Smeaton Social media Soil mechanics and foundations Sound recording Steam engine Steel George Stephenson Robert Stephenson Surveying Sustainability Joe Sutter Joseph Wilson Swan Thomas Telford Karl von Terzaghi Nicola Tesla Thermodynamics Toilets transistors Richard Trevithick Truss construction Turbine typesetting Valve Michel Virlogeux Virtual work Alessandro Volta Volts Wernher Von Braun Vulnerability Sir Barnes Wallis War Machines (ancient) Waste disposal Water power Water supply James Watt Weapons (modern) Weaving & spinning Sir Frank Whittle Windmills Work Wilbur Wright Orville Wright Writing Olegierd Zienkiewicz.

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Joel Levy is a writer and journalist specialising in science, nature and technology for younger audiences. His writing explores both mainstream science and weird technology, from chemistry and physics to death-rays and biomimetic robots. After taking degrees in molecular biology and psychology at Warwick and Edinburgh, he has gone on to write books including Really Useful, the science and history of everyday technology; Poison: A Social History, on the science and lore of poisons; Newton's Notebooks, on the life and discoveries of Isaac Newton; Phobiapedia, an encyclopaedia of the things that scare us most; and A Bee in a Cathedral, exploring analogies and thought experiments in science, nature and technology.

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