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1.) Mechanical Engineering-CIME - Heat, work & the first law: from Savery at the mines to Joule's propeller, the understanding of thermodynamics proceeded step by thoughtful step.

Over one day ago | Sat Mar 1 0:00:00 PST 2008

March 1, 2008 -- [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] That energy can neither be created nor destroyed is the first law of thermodynamics and, as far as anyone can observe or...

2.) Mechanical Engineering-CIME - Pressure's on: or, how Fulton's steamboat launched our modern world.

Over one day ago | Mon Oct 1 0:00:00 PDT 2007

October 1, 2007 -- [ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] THIS YEAR MARKS the bi-centennial of one of the world's great technological breakthroughs--the first commercially...

3.) Bookwatch, The - Watt's Perfect Engine

Over one day ago | Fri Apr 1 0:00:00 PST 2005

April 1, 2005 -- Watt's Perfect Engine Ben Marsden Columbia University Press 61 West 62nd Street, New York, NY 10023-7015 www.columbiaedu/cu/cup 0231131720...

4.) New Internationalist - Cotton—a history

Over one day ago | Sun Apr 1 0:00:00 PDT 2007

April 1, 2007 -- The stuff of Roman robes and royal apparel, of slaves and satanic mills, and of a new empire of capital that still holds sway today. For Gandhi,...

5.) Independent, The (London) - Campaign to put unsung hero of Second World War back on radar

Over one day ago | Thu Nov 2 0:00:00 PST 2006

November 2, 2006 -- He was the man who helped win the Battle of Britain and whose invention went on to lay the foundations for a host of modern life- saving...

6.) Conradiana - "Ain't we men?": illusions of gender in Joseph Conrad's The Nigger of the "Narcissus".(Critical essay)

Over one day ago | Fri Sep 22 0:00:00 PDT 2006

September 22, 2006 -- Henry James hailed Joseph Conrad's The Nigger of the "Narcissus" as "the very finest & strongest picture of the sea and sea-life...

7.) Junior Scholastic - Pennies and a crust of bread: child labor in America: millions of kids did crushingly hard work in the U.S. in the late 19th and early 20th centuries

Over one day ago | Mon Feb 6 0:00:00 PST 2006

February 6, 2006 -- OBJECTIVE Students should understand * what life was and is like for children forced to work long hours under harsh conditions. WORDS TO KNOW...

8.) National Review - Up in Davos: the annual global confab, in which the author gets pushed around by a girl, etc

Over one day ago | Mon Feb 27 0:00:00 PST 2006

February 27, 2006 -- IF it's the last week in January, it must be the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum. And so it is. The "global elites," as they're...

9.) symploke - Notes on a "classic" (1).(Book Review)

Over one day ago | Thu Jan 1 0:00:00 PST 2004

January 1, 2004 -- Like his 1995 book Inventing Ireland: The Literature of the Modern Nation, Declan Kiberd's Irish Classics is, well, "classic." This...

10.) Economist (US), The - Steam engines: Puffed up.(Thomas Newcomen actually invented the steam engine, although it was James Watt who harnessed it to power the industrial revolution)

Over one day ago | Sat Dec 25 0:00:00 PST 1999

December 25, 1999 -- 1765 ALL the best inventions have a legendary "light bulb" moment. James Watt's is supposed to have been when he saw the lid of his...

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