The World's Biggest Machines
Author | : Marcie Aboff |
Publisher | : Heinemann-Raintree Library |
Total Pages | : 34 |
Release | : 2010-09 |
Genre | : Machinery |
ISBN | : 1410938751 |
This book provides brief sketches of some of the largest machines on the planet.
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Author | : Marcie Aboff |
Publisher | : Heinemann-Raintree Library |
Total Pages | : 34 |
Release | : 2010-09 |
Genre | : Machinery |
ISBN | : 1410938751 |
This book provides brief sketches of some of the largest machines on the planet.
Author | : John Carroll |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Construction equipment |
ISBN | : 9780785806073 |
Heavy equipment describes a representative and comprehensive selection of the world's heaviest machinery. Each model is illustrated and has a specification box that details its capabilities.
Author | : Julie A Cohn |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2018-02-02 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 0262343797 |
The history of the grid, the world's largest interconnected power machine that is North America's electricity infrastructure. The North American power grid has been called the world's largest machine. The grid connects nearly every living soul on the continent; Americans rely utterly on the miracle of electrification. In this book, Julie Cohn tells the history of the grid, from early linkages in the 1890s through the grid's maturity as a networked infrastructure in the 1980s. She focuses on the strategies and technologies used to control power on the grid—in fact made up of four major networks of interconnected power systems—paying particular attention to the work of engineers and system operators who handled the everyday operations. To do so, she consulted sources that range from the pages of historical trade journals to corporate archives to the papers of her father, Nathan Cohn, who worked in the industry from 1927 to 1989—roughly the period of key power control innovations across North America. Cohn investigates major challenges and major breakthroughs but also the hidden aspects of our electricity infrastructure, both technical and human. She describes the origins of the grid and the growth of interconnection; emerging control issues, including difficulties in matching generation and demand on linked systems; collaboration and competition against the backdrop of economic depression and government infrastructure investment; the effects of World War II on electrification; postwar plans for a coast-to-coast grid; the northeast blackout of 1965 and the East-West closure of 1967; and renewed efforts at achieving stability and reliability after those two events.
Author | : James P. Womack |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 501 |
Release | : 2008-12-09 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1847375960 |
When James Womack, Daniel Jones, and Daniel Roos wrote THE MACHINE THAT CHANGED THE WORLD in 1990, Japanese automakers, and Toyota in particular, were making a strong showing by applying the principles of lean production. However, the full power of lean principles was unproven, and they had not been applied outside of the auto industry. Today, the power of lean production has been conclusively proved by Toyota's unparalleled success, and the concepts have been widely applied in many industries. Based on MIT's pioneering global study of industrial competition, THE MACHINE THAT CHANGED THE WORLD offers a groundbreaking analysis of the entire lean business system, including product development, supplier management, sales, service, and production - an analysis even more relevant today as GM and Ford struggle to survive and a wide range of British abd American companies embrace lean production. A new Foreword by the authors brings the story up to date and details how their predictions were right. As a result, this reissue of a classic is as insightful and instructive today as when it was first published.
Author | : Steven R. Nivin |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 2018-01-12 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1351767305 |
This title was first published in 2000: Steven Nivin analyzes a process vital to economic development - technological change. He furthers understanding of the processes driving innovation, so that we may gain a deeper insight into the development of economies. Specifically, the study explores the concept of innovation potential and the factors that result in variations in innovation potential across metropolitan areas, using the US machine tool industry as a case study. To provide a comparison, the same models are also estimated for the semiconductor industry. The findings indicate that urbanisation economies, localization economies, human capital, universities, and invention-derived knowledge are significant factors. The study assesses the contributions of three different skill levels of human capital; college-educated, graduate degree, and locally produced PhD’s in mechanical and electrical engineering. Only the graduate and PhD degree measures are found to be significant, indicating the importance of having a highly skilled pool of labour within the region. The influences of the factors appear to be similar across industries, with some slight differences. The transfer of knowledge through patents is also studied. It is found that the transmission of this knowledge is slower between different industries, relative to the transmission within the same industry.
Author | : Alliance Machine Company |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 94 |
Release | : 1916 |
Genre | : Cranes, derricks, etc |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Irvin Farman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 496 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Guinness World Records |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 499 |
Release | : 2017-11-07 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : 1945186453 |
Imagine the world before Google or Facebook, when books were the only source of recorded fact. Originally published in 1956, The Guinness Book of Superlatives is the very first book in a series that would one day become one of the most well-known and trusted brands in the world—The Guinness Book of World Records. This is the original fun and informative edition, which gathered world facts and records from the year of its publication and prior. Included within are world records and facts from the sectors of: Science Politics Economics Art Architecture Engineering Accidents and disasters Human achievements The natural world And many more! Pick up this entertaining reference book, and expand your knowledge of the world as it was more than sixty years ago.
Author | : Joe Fullman |
Publisher | : Welbeck Children's Books |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2022-03-15 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1913519945 |
A whirlwind tour of the entire globe, this beautifully illustrated atlas is jam-packed with facts about every country in the world, perfect for readers 8+. Where would you like to visit next? Take a tour of every single country in the world within the pages of The World Book. Featuring a special diecut globe cover, this book is packed with facts, stats and flags - explore different cultures and the best things to see, do and taste on this planet. Find out how to say 'good morning' in Maltese, the most popular dishes in Colombian cuisine, and where you can see over 60 species of hummingbird. Seek out the tallest mountain, the longest river, and everything in between.