Engineering: A Very Short Introduction (Record no. 295513)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780199578696
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 620.002 BLO-E
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Personal name D I Blockley
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Engineering: A Very Short Introduction
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. Oxford ; New York
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Oxford University Press
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2012
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent xiv, 135 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.
490 ## - SERIES STATEMENT
Series statement Very short introductions, 309.
505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note From idea to reality -- The age of gravity: time for work -- The age of heat: you can't get something for nothing -- The age of electromagnetism: the power of attraction -- The age of information: getting smaller -- The age of systems: risky futures.
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Summary, etc. Engineering is part of almost everything we do--from the buildings we live in and the roads and railways we travel on, to the telephones and computers we use to communicate and the X-ray machines that help doctors diagnose diseases. In this Very Short Introduction, David Blockley explores the nature and practice of engineering--its history, its scope, and its relationship with art, craft, science, and technology. He begins with its early roots, ranging from Archimedes to some of the great figures of engineering such as Brunel and Marconi, right up to the modern day, describing the five ages of engineering--gravity, heat, electromagnetism, information, and systems--and showing how they relate to one another. Blockley discusses some of engineering\\\'s great achievements as well as its great disasters--such as when things went catastrophically wrong at Chernobyl--using examples of everyday tools to reveal how engineering actually works. He also looks at some of the contributions engineers will have to make in the future in order to sustain and promote human well-being.
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Engineering. Engineering --Popular works.
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        Dept. of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Dept. of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Processing Center 01/09/2015 1 620.002 BLO-E DCB2333 17/10/2018 07/04/2018 01/09/2015 Book