http://www.lybrary.com/index.php?cPath=1179 Copyright © 2013 Lybrary.como continue to live life to the full at 100 years old is quite amazing! In this exhilarating, exciting and at times emotional book EE Vielle takes us through a life which involved several different careers. His early childhood memories draw you into a forgotten world. The threat of hunger during the Great Depression led him away from university to the RAF and flying 150 types of aircraft, not without incident! He guides you through an unexpected account of WW11 which includes mysterious happenings between scientists and some, to date unpublicised, treacherous acts with far reaching implications. His optimism, purpose and enthusiasm are what he sees as the markers for his long and fulfilling life. There is still a twinkle in the eye and an unending supply of jokes and stories told in a compelling manner. We can see now the vision he had in his previous books and one has to ask what his future is now? He will tell you...............http://www.lybrary.com/almost-a-boffin-the-memoirs-of-group-captain-eevielle-obe-raf-rtd-p-310409.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/almost-a-boffin-the-memoirs-of-group-captain-eevielle-obe-raf-rtd-p-310409.htmlWed, 19 Jun 2013 03:31:01 EDT http://www.lybrary.com/records-of-a-family-of-engineers-p-310014.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/records-of-a-family-of-engineers-p-310014.htmlTue, 18 Jun 2013 11:35:52 EDT http://www.lybrary.com/memoir-of-fleeming-jenkin-p-310002.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/memoir-of-fleeming-jenkin-p-310002.htmlTue, 18 Jun 2013 11:35:26 EDT Mary Anning (1799-1847) was one of the pioneers of the emerging science of geology - the first woman palaeontologist to make important discoveries. After her death, many of her discoveries were credited to the naturalists who had brought her specimens. This book reveals the little-known life of this extraordinary woman from undeserved obscurity.http://www.lybrary.com/jurassic-mary-mary-anning-and-the-primeval-monsters-p-309671.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/jurassic-mary-mary-anning-and-the-primeval-monsters-p-309671.htmlMon, 17 Jun 2013 07:32:38 EDT For a quarter of a century from 1950, George Edwards was the dominant figure in British aviation, both civil and military. His successes included the VC 10 airliner and the legendary Anglo-French Concorde. Edwards's patience and perseverance when dealing with politicians across the Channel were critical to the success of the Concorde project.http://www.lybrary.com/from-bouncing-bombs-to-concorde-the-authorised-biography-of-aviation-pioneer-george-edwards-om-p-309651.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/from-bouncing-bombs-to-concorde-the-authorised-biography-of-aviation-pioneer-george-edwards-om-p-309651.htmlMon, 17 Jun 2013 05:32:26 EDT <p>With <i>Wind Wizard</i>, Siobhan Roberts brings us the story of Alan Davenport (1932-2009), the father of modern wind engineering, who investigated how wind navigates the obstacle course of the earth's natural and built environments--and how, when not properly heeded, wind causes buildings and bridges to teeter unduly, sway with abandon, and even collapse.</p><p>In 1964, Davenport received a confidential telephone call from two engineers requesting tests on a pair of towers that promised to be the tallest in the world. His resulting wind studies on New York's World Trade Center advanced the art and science of wind engineering with one pioneering innovation after another. Establishing the first dedicated "boundary layer" wind tunnel laboratory for civil engineering structures, Davenport enabled the study of the atmospheric region from the earth's surface to three thousand feet, where the air churns with turbulent eddies, the average wind speed increasing with height. The boundary layer wind tunnel mimics these windy marbled striations in order to test models of buildings and bridges that inevitably face the wind when built. Over the years, Davenport's revolutionary lab investigated and improved the wind-worthiness of the world's greatest structures, including the Sears Tower, the John Hancock Tower, Shanghai's World Financial Center, the CN Tower, the iconic Golden Gate Bridge, the Bronx-Whitestone Bridge, the Sunshine Skyway, and the proposed crossing for the Strait of Messina, linking Sicily with mainland Italy.</p><p>Chronicling Davenport's innovations by analyzing select projects, this popular-science book gives an illuminating behind-the-scenes view into the practice of wind engineering, and insight into Davenport's steadfast belief that there is neither a structure too tall nor too long, as long as it is supported by sound wind science.</p>http://www.lybrary.com/wind-wizard-alan-g-davenport-and-the-art-of-wind-engineering-p-309545.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/wind-wizard-alan-g-davenport-and-the-art-of-wind-engineering-p-309545.htmlSun, 16 Jun 2013 20:35:46 EDT It is almost a century since Thomas Alva Edison, the world's greatest inventor, gave the world electric light - and exactly one hundred years since he built the first successful phonograph (forerunner of the gramophone). The man who declared that "genius is 1 per cent inspiration and 99 per cent perspiration," and who on average lodged a patent every two weeks of his adult life, was the most famous American of his day. Only now, however, is it possible to present him clearly against the background of his times and to access fairly his achievements and his often controversial business and working methods.<br/>In Edison: The Man Who Made The Future Ronald Clark describes the inventors early untutored upbringing, his struggles in the industrial jungle which grew up in the aftermath of the American Civil War, and his vital contributions to what became the motion picture industry. A prolific inventor in his own right, he was also a developer of other men's ideas. A pacifist, he became President of the U.S. Naval Consulting Board in the First World War. Thrusting, enquiring, and determined to leave his mark on history, he was, perhaps, the archetypal American of his era.http://www.lybrary.com/edison-the-man-who-made-the-future-p-306880.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/edison-the-man-who-made-the-future-p-306880.htmlTue, 11 Jun 2013 17:34:46 EDT Dubbed 'Darwin's Bulldog' for his combative role in the Victorian controversies over evolutionary theory, Thomas Huxley has been widely regarded as the epitome of the professional scientist who emerged in the nineteenth century from the restrictions of ecclesiastical authority and aristocratic patronage. Yet from the 1850s until his death in 1895, Huxley always defined himself as a 'man of science', a moral and religious figure, not a scientist. Exploring his relationships with his wife, fellow naturalists, clergymen and men of letters, White presents a new analysis of the authority of science, literature, and religion during the Victorian period, showing how these different practices were woven into a fabric of high culture, and integrated into institutions of print, education and research. He provides a substantially different view of Huxley's role in the evolution debates, and of his relations with his scientific contemporaries, especially Richard Owen and Charles Darwin.http://www.lybrary.com/thomas-huxley-p-298228.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/thomas-huxley-p-298228.htmlSat, 25 May 2013 14:33:39 EDT Telling the full story of one of the most disagreeable sports figures in recent memory, this book chronicles the highs and lows of Albert Belleâ€"his tirades and scufflings with reporters, including a profane outburst leveled at NBC reporter Hanna Storm during the 1996 World Series (which earned him an unprecedented $50,000 fine); his beaning of a fan with a baseball during a game; his high-speed chase of two Cleveland teenagers who had egged his house on Halloween; his unprovoked hit-and-run on diminutive Milwaukee second baseman, Fernando Vina; his obscene gestures to heckling Indians fans; his hate-hate relationship with the media; and his non-appearance (for his own safety) at the 1997 All-Star Game, held in Cleveland, where he had played for nearly a decadhttp://www.lybrary.com/dont-call-me-joey-the-wit-and-wisdom-of-albert-joey-belle-p-296448.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/dont-call-me-joey-the-wit-and-wisdom-of-albert-joey-belle-p-296448.htmlWed, 22 May 2013 02:34:17 EDT <I>Dr. Hyde and Mr. Stevenson:</I> the life of the Rev. Dr. Charles McEwen Hyde, including a discussion of the open letter of Robert Louis Stevenson.http://www.lybrary.com/dr-hyde-and-mr-stevenson-the-life-of-the-rev-dr-charles-mcewen-hyde-including-a-discussion-of-the-open-letter-of-robert-lou-p-296336.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/dr-hyde-and-mr-stevenson-the-life-of-the-rev-dr-charles-mcewen-hyde-including-a-discussion-of-the-open-letter-of-robert-lou-p-296336.htmlTue, 21 May 2013 22:30:41 EDT Nikola Tesla (1856-1943), credited as the inspiration for radio, robots, and even radar, has been called the patron saint of modern electricity. Based on original material and previously unavailable documents, this acclaimed book is the definitive biography of fthe man considered by many to be the founding father of modern electrical technology. Among Tesla's creations were the channeling of alternating current, fluorescent and neon lighting, wireless telegraphy, and the giant turbines that harnessed the power of Niagara Falls.<p>The book is illustrated with sixteen pages of photographs, including the July 20, 1931, Time magazine cover for an issue celebrating the inventor's career.<p>"Wizard is a truly remarkable biography of a remarkable man. The expression 'ahead of his time' is used too loosely and too often today but in the case of Nikola Tesla 'ahead of his time' barely describes the genius of this man. Marc Siefer makes us understand not only the man but the times in which he lived." --Nelson DeMille, Novelist<p>"Seifer's vivid, revelatory, exhaustively researched biography rescues pioneer inventor Nikola Tesla from cult status and restores him to his rightful place as a principal architect of the modern age. . .Seifer provides the fullest account yet of Tesla as an entreprenFR DE, experimental physicist and inventor." --<I>Publishers Weekly</I><p>"The story of one of the most prolific, independent and iconoclastic inventors of this century is a fascinating one. . ..
<p>The author presents much new material. . .(and) bases his book on a large number of archival and primary sources. . .Underneath the layers. . .the core of Seifer's book is a serious piece of scholarship." --<I>Scientific American</I>http://www.lybrary.com/wizard-the-life-and-times-of-nikola-tesla-p-296159.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/wizard-the-life-and-times-of-nikola-tesla-p-296159.htmlTue, 21 May 2013 13:33:25 EDT Born in Ireland in the mid-nineteenth century, Agnes Mary Clerke achieved fame as the author of A History of Astronomy during the Nineteenth Century. Through her quarter-century career, she became the leading commentator on astronomy and astrophysics in the English-speaking world. The biography of Agnes Clerke describes the life and work of this extraordinary woman. It also chronicles the development of astronomy in the last decades of pre-Einstein science, and introduces many of the great figures in astronomy of that age including Huggins, Lockyer, Holden, and Pickering; their achievements and their rivalries. The story follows her friendship with William and Margaret Huggins, and her prolific correspondence with eminent astronomers of the time. This biography will fascinate scientists, and anyone who admires intellectual achievement brought about through love of learning and sheer hard work.http://www.lybrary.com/agnes-mary-clerke-and-the-rise-of-astrophysics-p-296074.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/agnes-mary-clerke-and-the-rise-of-astrophysics-p-296074.htmlTue, 21 May 2013 10:33:04 EDT http://www.lybrary.com/william-dargan-17991867-an-honourable-life-p-292740.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/william-dargan-17991867-an-honourable-life-p-292740.htmlMon, 13 May 2013 16:37:43 EDT Already awarded a prize by the Biographer's Club, Harriet Tuckey's book is both the history of what went into the first successful ascent of Mt. Everest in 1953 and a biography of her father, Dr Griffith Pugh, whose role was absolutely pivotal, yet mostly untold. As the expedition's physiological consultant, Pugh designed almost every aspect of the survival strategy for the expedition, the acclimatization program, the oxygen- and fluid-intake regime, the diet, the clothing and the high altitude boots. Without him and his work, the ascent of Everest would have been impossible.http://www.lybrary.com/everest-the-first-ascent-how-a-champion-of-science-helped-to-conquer-the-mountain-p-287162.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/everest-the-first-ascent-how-a-champion-of-science-helped-to-conquer-the-mountain-p-287162.htmlTue, 30 Apr 2013 00:31:40 EDT <p>Nikola Tesla was a major contributor to the electrical revolution that transformed daily life at the turn of the twentieth century. His inventions, patents, and theoretical work formed the basis of modern AC electricity, and contributed to the development of radio and television. Like his competitor Thomas Edison, Tesla was one of America's first celebrity scientists, enjoying the company of New York high society and dazzling the likes of Mark Twain with his electrical demonstrations. An astute self-promoter and gifted showman, he cultivated a public image of the eccentric genius. Even at the end of his life when he was living in poverty, Tesla still attracted reporters to his annual birthday interview, regaling them with claims that he had invented a particle-beam weapon capable of bringing down enemy aircraft.</p><p>Plenty of biographies glamorize Tesla and his eccentricities, but until now none has carefully examined what, how, and why he invented. In this groundbreaking book, W. Bernard Carlson demystifies the legendary inventor, placing him within the cultural and technological context of his time, and focusing on his inventions themselves as well as the creation and maintenance of his celebrity. Drawing on original documents from Tesla's private and public life, Carlson shows how he was an "idealist" inventor who sought the perfect experimental realization of a great idea or principle, and who skillfully sold his inventions to the public through mythmaking and illusion.</p><p>This major biography sheds new light on Tesla's visionary approach to invention and the business strategies behind his most important technological breakthroughs.</p>http://www.lybrary.com/tesla-inventor-of-the-electrical-age-p-281408.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/tesla-inventor-of-the-electrical-age-p-281408.htmlThu, 18 Apr 2013 23:32:23 EDT Much is known about the achievements of George Stephenson and of his infamous creation, the Rocket, yet little is known of the man himself. This volume is a profile of the self-taught and often testy Geordie, whose Victorian invention is now the backbone of every nation on the planet.http://www.lybrary.com/george-stephenson-the-remarkable-life-of-the-founder-of-the-railway-p-279311.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/george-stephenson-the-remarkable-life-of-the-founder-of-the-railway-p-279311.htmlSun, 14 Apr 2013 14:37:31 EDT Nikola Tesla has been called the most important man of the twentieth century. Certainly he contributed more to the field of electricity, radio, and television than any other person living or dead. Ultimately he died alone and impoverished having driven all of his friends away through his neurotic and eccentric behavior. Tesla was never able to fit into the world that he found himself in. This autobiography, originally serialized in Electrical Experimenter, is an intensely fascinating glimpse into the mind of a genius, his inventions, and the magical world in which he lived.http://www.lybrary.com/my-inventions-the-autobiography-of-nikola-tesla-p-277761.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/my-inventions-the-autobiography-of-nikola-tesla-p-277761.htmlThu, 11 Apr 2013 02:34:22 EDT <p>A veteran traveller with an aptitude for languages, Margaret Nice, researcher-scientist-author, amassed considerable knowledge of many of the birds of the world. Significantly, her most important paper was published in Germany, far from her birthplace of Amherst, Massachusetts. The paper dealing with the Song Sparrow appeared in two parts in the Journal fur Ornithologie.</p><p>Through the years, Dr. Nice, a Past President of the Wilson Ornithological Society, and a Life Fellow of the American Ornithologist's Union, was elected to Honorary Memberships in the ornithological societies of most of the countries she visited. These included Britain, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy and the Netherlands. She was a much-admired corresponding member of the Hungarian Institute of Ornithology. In Toronto, Canada, The Margaret Nice Ornithological Club was formed in her honor.</p><p>Though widely known as "The Song Sparrow Lady," she was more than the ultimate authority on the Song Sparrow and probably the most famous woman ornithologist in the world. A trained zoologist, active environmentalist and prodigious letter writer, she was also a loving wife and mother.</p>http://www.lybrary.com/research-is-a-passion-with-me-the-autobiography-of-a-bird-lover-p-276977.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/research-is-a-passion-with-me-the-autobiography-of-a-bird-lover-p-276977.htmlTue, 09 Apr 2013 10:32:42 EDT Whenever the Spitfire is mentioned the name of its famous designer R J Mitchell comes to mind. However, Mitchell died in June 1937 and never saw his prototype design progress into becoming one of the most famous fighter aircraft of the Second World War. Working under Mitchell as chief draughtsman was Joe Smith who was greatly involved with the early design of the Spitfire. After Mitchell's death, Smith first became manager of the design department, and then chief designer. This illustrated book celebrates the inspirational and innovative work of Mitchell, Smith and their successful design team. Including first-hand accounts of members of the design team and apprentices, it reveals a little-known but pivotal figure. Smith's dedication, leadership and the part he played in the development of the Spitfire and post-war jet aircraft have largely been forgotten.http://www.lybrary.com/spitfires-forgotten-designer-the-career-of-supermarines-joe-smith-p-274436.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/spitfires-forgotten-designer-the-career-of-supermarines-joe-smith-p-274436.htmlTue, 02 Apr 2013 15:37:43 EDT Robert Hooke was one of the most gifted men of his age, but because he worked in the sphere of two remarkable men - Issasc Newton and Christopher Wren - his contribution has remained largely overlooked. Michael Cooper's biography puts the record straight.http://www.lybrary.com/robert-hooke-and-the-rebuilding-of-london-p-273879.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/robert-hooke-and-the-rebuilding-of-london-p-273879.htmlMon, 01 Apr 2013 06:34:50 EDT