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Today's sewing machines allow even novice sewers to embroider and produce garments of professional quality. Computerization provides the accuracy and repeatability that was previously achieved only through years of experience. But most sewers do not employ the full capabilities of their machines. 50 Ways to Master Your Sewing Machine will change that. It picks up where the often inadequate owner's manuals leave off and guides sewers in exploring the...
3) Machines
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Surveys the development of machinery from the simple lever and wedge to modern complex machines.
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The chapters in this book centre around one main theme, the concept of the machine and its use as metaphor in a variety of contexts. This concept is deeply rooted in western culture and is frequently used to interpret complex systems in nature and society. With the advent of electronic computers, the machine metaphor applied to thinking and the brain has becOIne even more pertinent. The idea of a machine has changed over time. In this book these transformations...
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Charts the history of manned flight; from the kite made by the now-famous Wright brothers, which became the forerunner of the flying machine, to today's commercial planes that can top 800 kmph. What is it that makes our current planes fly 12 times faster? Looks at advances in aviation that led to the Airbus A380, the largest passenger plane in the world, as well as to the scramjet built by NASA.
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In the vast grain fields of early America the size of a farmer's crop was limited by how quickly the grain could be harvested. For some crops, the transition to a mechanical harvest in the early 20th century was simple. Modern cutting and threshing operations have reached a new level of speed and efficiency.
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"The second edition of Vibration Spectrum Analysis includes vital new information on current instrumentation, along with case studies, additional appendixes, and new practice questions." "Written for vibration analysts, predictive maintenance specialists, field mechanics, and a wide variety of engineers, Vibration Spectrum Analysis assumes no prior knowledge of advanced mathematics or mechanical engineering. It carefully guides the reader through...
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"What do thousands of kids, makers, poets, artists, steampunks, hipsters, activists, and musicians have in common? They love typewriters--the magical, mechanical contraptions that are enjoying a surprising second life in the 21st century, striking a blow for self-reliance, privacy, and coherence against dependency, surveillance, and disintegration. The Typewriter Revolution documents the movement and provides practical advice on how to choose a typewriter,...
12) Build Yourself
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In the farmlands of Missouri, an unlikely Polish physicist is developing affordable, easy to build industrial machines and sharing his designs on the Internet for free.
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"Although the 1880s are considered the beginning of the vending machine era, these devices have existed for a couple of thousand years. The earliest reference to a vending machine was made by Hero - a Greek mathematician, physicist and engineer who probably lived in Alexandria during the first century A.D. - who described and illustrated a coin-operated device to be used for vending sacrificial water in Egyptian temples. Completely automatic, the...
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"Daniel Hillis offers an easy-to-follow explanation of how data is processed that makes the operation of a computer seem as straightforward as those of a bicycle." "Hillis proceeds from an outline of basic logic to clear descriptions of programming languages, algorithms and memory. He then takes readers in simple steps up to the most exciting developments in computing today - quantum computing, parallel computing, neural networks, and self-organizing...
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NASA Chief Scientist Dennis Bushnell discusses with futurist Hazel Henderson the new alarms raised by Bill Gates, Google's Eric Schmidt, Space-Ex and Tesla's founder Elon Musk and physicist Stephen Hawking that intelligent machines like IBM's Watson may soon outsmart humans. While futurists envisioned "leisure societies," shorter work weeks, guaranteed basic incomes and flowering of culture, art and human potentials - what we got was unemployment,...
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