Biografien von Ingenieuren

The Strange Life of Nikola Tesla

Autor: Nikola Tesla

Graf Zeppelin und die deutsche Luftfahrt: Mit 120 Abbildungen

Autor: Pro August Von Parseval

Frank Whittle: Invention of the Jet

Autor: Andrew Nahum

Edison's Ghosts: The Untold Weirdness of History’s Greatest Geniuses

Autor: Katie Spalding

Wackernells Visionen: Das Lebenswerk eines Südtiroler Ingenieurs

Autor: Leo Hillebrand

The Everything Blueprint: The Microchip Design that Changed the World

Autor: James Ashton

Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future

Autor: Ashlee Vance

Mr. Gatling's Terrible Marvel: The Gun That Changed Everything and the Misunderstood Genius Who Invented It

Julia Keller

Dreaming in Code: Two Dozen Programmers, Three Years, 4,732 Bugs, and One Quest for Transcendent Software

Scott Rosenberg

Their story takes us through a maze of dead ends and exhilarating breakthroughs as they and their colleagues wrestle not only with the abstraction of code but with the unpredictability of human behavior, especially their own. Along the way, we encounter black holes, turtles, snakes, dragons, axe-sharpening, and yak-shaving - and take a guided tour through the theories and methods, both brilliant and misguided, that litter the history of software development, from the famous "mythical man-month" to Extreme Programming.

Not just for technophiles but for anyone captivated by the drama of invention, Dreaming in Code offers a window into both the information age and the workings of the human mind.

Gutenberg the Geek

Jeff Jarvis

Johannes Gutenberg was our first geek, the original technology entrepreneur, who had to grapple with all the challenges a Silicon Valley startup faces today. Jeff Jarvis tells Gutenberg's story from an entrepreneurial perspective, examining how he overcame technology hurdles, how he operated with the secrecy of a Steve Jobs, but then shifted to openness, how he raised capital and mitigated risk, and how, in the end, his cash flow and equity structure did him in. This is also the inspiring story of a great disruptor - which is what makes Gutenberg the patron saint of entrepreneurs.

Jeff Jarvis is the author of Public Parts: How Sharing in the Digital Age Improves the Way We Work and Live and What Would Google Do? : Reverse-Engineering the Fastest Growing Company in the History of the World. He directs the Tow-Knight Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism at the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism.

They Made America: From the Steam Engine to the Search Engine: Two Centuries of Innovators

Harold Evans, Gail Buckland, David Lefer

The workshop revolutionaries who made our world have never had the attention afforded the political revolutionaries who founded this nation. But it has been these innovators, in small-town attics and on the Mississippi, in Silicon Valley and the wheat fields of Kansas, in a black woman's beauty parlor and a Dayton bicycle shop, who set America on a course to attain a standard of living unprecedented in the history of the world.

The flourishing of America is the story of an inventive people with a mystic faith in technology, from the early settlers who devised windmills as a way of getting water on the Great Plains to the electronic whiz kids of the Internet. Innovation, practical inventiveness, is the main force behind America's preeminence. But there is more to this extraordinary history. Harold Evans traces how the innovators have time and time again proved to be democratizers, driven not by greed but by an ambition to be remembered. They translated the nation's political ideals into economic reality.

Yet many of these heroic contributors have been lost to history. Who fought and fought to make banking available to the common people? Who opened the world of international air travel to the masses? Whose Internet triumph was based on egalitarian ideals? Who put cheap electricity into everyone's homes, and was pursued as a fugitive? Who gave everyman high-quality sound, and was driven to suicide?

They Made America is eminently practical; but more than anything, it is history to inspire.

Slide Rule: The Autobiography of an Engineer

Nevil Shute

The Truth About Tesla: The Myth of the Lone Genius in the History of Innovation

Christopher Cooper

Brilliant!: Shuji Nakamura And the Revolution in Lighting Technology

Bob Johnstone

Edison: A Life of Invention

Paul Israel

Records of a Family of Engineers

Robert Louis Stevenson

Tesla: The Lost Inventions

George Trinkaus, George B. Triukaus

The 50 Greatest Engineers: The People Whose Innovations Have Shaped Our World (English Edition)

Autoren: Paul Virr, William Potter

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