Turners and Fitters'Handbook on Wheel and Screw-cutting, Taps ... with Practical Observations
Author | : Thomas GREENWOOD (late of the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich.) |
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Total Pages | : 80 |
Release | : 1866 |
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Author | : Thomas GREENWOOD (late of the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich.) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 80 |
Release | : 1866 |
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Author | : Richard W. Bulliet |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 271 |
Release | : 2016-01-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0231540612 |
In this book, Richard W. Bulliet focuses on three major phases in the evolution of the wheel and their relationship to the needs and ambitions of human society. He begins in 4000 B.C.E. with the first wheels affixed to axles. He then follows with the innovation of wheels turning independently on their axles and concludes five thousand years later with the caster, a single rotating and pivoting wheel. Bulliet's most interesting finding is that a simple desire to move things from place to place did not drive the wheel's development. If that were the case, the wheel could have been invented at any time almost anywhere in the world. By dividing the history of this technology into three conceptual phases and focusing on the specific men, women, and societies that brought it about, Bulliet expands the social, economic, and political significance of a tool we only partially understand. He underscores the role of gender, combat, and competition in the design and manufacture of wheels, adding vivid imagery to illustrate each stage of their development.
Author | : Sir Charles Vere Ferrers Townshend |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 424 |
Release | : 1920 |
Genre | : Al Kūt (Iraq) |
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Author | : Tarry Ionta |
Publisher | : iUniverse |
Total Pages | : 178 |
Release | : 2002-09-30 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0595252621 |
Hobart Fenn, desperately wanting to leave the artificial satellite that is his home, has been secretly working to prepare a ship that will take him to the home of his ancestors, Earth. To those living on The Wheel Earth is no longer habitable, having been ravaged by a deadly experimental virus that killed off all human life on the planet. Fenn doubts this and is determined to find out for himself. His efforts to find the truth lead him in a struggle against the evil, dictatorial rulers of The Wheel. In so doing he finds his destiny, that of attempting to unite two very different cultures. His adventures bring him, and his new friends, surprises and dangers that he could not possibly have envisaged.
Author | : Tenshin Reb Anderson |
Publisher | : Shambhala Publications |
Total Pages | : 172 |
Release | : 2016-08-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1930485794 |
In his previous book, Being Upright: Zen Meditation and the Bodhisattva Precepts, Reb Anderson Roshi described how we must become thoroughly grounded in conventional truth through the practice of compassion before we can receive the teachings of the ultimate truth. In The Third Turning of the Wheel, he introduces us to the next stage of our journey by invoking the wisdom of the Samdhinirmocana Sutra. According to Anderson, the main purpose behind this enigmatic sutra is to reconcile the apparent contradictions between the original teachings of the historical Buddha and the later teachings of Mahayana Buddhism. Anderson reflects on the great metaphysical questions proposed in the Samdhinirmocana Sutra—the nature of ultimate reality, the structure of human consciousness, the characteristics of phenomena, the stages of meditation, and the essential qualities of a buddha—with the clarity of a scholar and the insight of a practitioner.