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Fallible Guardian
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Author : Benjamin Sidney Michael Schwantes
language : en
Publisher: ProQuest
Release Date : 2009
Fallible Guardian written by Benjamin Sidney Michael Schwantes and has been published by ProQuest this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Railroad travel categories.
This dissertation argues that a deterministic popular rhetoric of 19 th -century mechanical and electrical sublimity has obscured the complex and nuanced social, financial, and technological relationships that developed between users of railroad and telegraph technologies. In order to successfully analyze the agents that shaped the development of both industries in the United States, it is necessary to recognize that these technologies were socially constructed and evolved as parts of larger technological systems that encompassed social, economic, and technological components. By examining how these components interacted and shaped the development of the railroad and telegraph industries, this dissertation situates both technologies within the broader framework of American industrial growth and expansion in the 19 th century. It demonstrates that uncertainty, mutual suspicion, and cautious experimentation, rather than systematic, linear development dominated the process by which railroad officials and telegraph promoters established working social, financial, and technological partnerships. When Samuel F.B. Morse demonstrated the first telegraph line in 1844, American railroad officials did not immediately perceive telegraphy as a useful tool for managing railroad operations, such as monitoring train locations, communicating with station agents and train crews, issuing operating instructions, and preventing collisions. Nor did American telegraph entrepreneurs understand how to successfully promote their new technology to railroad managers in the antebellum era. Only through a lengthy process of trial and error did users of both technologies gradually establish financial and technological ties. The first three chapters of the dissertation examine the role of social, technological, and economic agents in shaping partnerships between railroad officials and telegraph promoters in antebellum America. The fourth chapter examines how the development and growth of the United States Military Railroad and Telegraph Corps during the American Civil War revealed the underlying tensions between pro-telegraph and anti-telegraph railroad officials and led to compromises between military railroad and telegraph officials on how telegraph technologies would be used for railroad operational management during the conflict. The fifth and sixth chapters address how rapidly expanding railroad traffic in the postwar era forced civilian railroad officials to adopt telegraphic train dispatching technologies in a largely ad hoc manner. The rapid process of adoption led to inconsistent management practices and technological standards and increased the risk of deadly train collisions. These problems were only resolved at the end of the century through a slow standards-setting process directed by railroad officials from numerous companies. By the end of the 19 th century, railroad and telegraph officials established working technological and financial partnerships, but railroad managers never embraced telegraphic management practices. The rapid transition away from telegraphic train dispatching discussed in the final chapter highlights the lingering tensions between both industries in the early 20 th century and demonstrates that railroad officials remained concerned that telegraph technology could undermine strict managerial protocols and introduce unacceptable risks to railroad operations. These conclusions strike at the heart of the deterministic rhetoric of technological sublimity and show that neither technology possessed a natural affinity for the other, nor were they inherently linked as technological partners in American industrial development.
Einstein S Greatest Mistake
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Author : David Bodanis
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2016-09-29
Einstein S Greatest Mistake written by David Bodanis and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-09-29 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Widely considered the greatest genius of all time, Albert Einstein revolutionised our understanding of the cosmos with his general theory of relativity and helped to lead us into the atomic age. Yet in the final decades of his life he was also ignored by most working scientists, his ideas opposed by even his closest friends. This stunning downfall can be traced to Einstein's earliest successes and to personal qualities that were at first his best assets. Einstein's imagination and self-confidence served him well as he sought to reveal the universe's structure, but when it came to newer revelations in the field of quantum mechanics, these same traits undermined his quest for the ultimate truth. David Bodanis traces the arc of Einstein's intellectual development across his professional and personal life, showing how Einstein's confidence in his own powers of intuition proved to be both his greatest strength and his ultimate undoing. He was a fallible genius. An intimate and enlightening biography of the celebrated physicist, Einstein's Greatest Mistake reveals how much we owe Einstein today - and how much more he might have achieved if not for his all-too-human flaws.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Volume 1
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Author : Albert J. Churella
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2012-10-29
The Pennsylvania Railroad Volume 1 written by Albert J. Churella and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-29 with History categories.
"Do not think of the Pennsylvania Railroad as a business enterprise," Forbes magazine informed its readers in May 1936. "Think of it as a nation." At the end of the nineteenth century, the Pennsylvania Railroad was the largest privately owned business corporation in the world. In 1914, the PRR employed more than two hundred thousand people—more than double the number of soldiers in the United States Army. As the self-proclaimed "Standard Railroad of the World," this colossal corporate body underwrote American industrial expansion and shaped the economic, political, and social environment of the United States. In turn, the PRR was fundamentally shaped by the American landscape, adapting to geography as well as shifts in competitive economics and public policy. Albert J. Churella's masterful account, certain to become the authoritative history of the Pennsylvania Railroad, illuminates broad themes in American history, from the development of managerial practices and labor relations to the relationship between business and government to advances in technology and transportation. Churella situates exhaustive archival research on the Pennsylvania Railroad within the social, economic, and technological changes of nineteenth- and twentieth-century America, chronicling the epic history of the PRR intertwined with that of a developing nation. This first volume opens with the development of the Main Line of Public Works, devised by Pennsylvanians in the 1820s to compete with the Erie Canal. Though a public rather than a private enterprise, the Main Line foreshadowed the establishment of the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1846. Over the next decades, as the nation weathered the Civil War, industrial expansion, and labor unrest, the PRR expanded despite competition with rival railroads and disputes with such figures as Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller. The dawn of the twentieth century brought a measure of stability to the railroad industry, enabling the creation of such architectural monuments as Pennsylvania Station in New York City. The volume closes at the threshold of American involvement in World War I, as the strategies that PRR executives had perfected in previous decades proved less effective at guiding the company through increasingly tumultuous economic and political waters.
The United Presbyterian And Evangelical Guardian
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1849
The United Presbyterian And Evangelical Guardian written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1849 with Christianity categories.
The Buried Giant
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Author : Kazuo Ishiguro
language : en
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Release Date : 2015-03-03
The Buried Giant written by Kazuo Ishiguro and has been published by Faber & Faber this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-03 with Fiction categories.
*Kazuo Ishiguro's new novel Klara and the Sun is now available*The Romans have long since departed, and Britain is steadily declining into ruin.The Buried Giant begins as a couple, Axl and Beatrice, set off across a troubled land of mist and rain in the hope of finding a son they have not seen for years. They expect to face many hazards - some strange and other-worldly - but they cannot yet foresee how their journey will reveal to them dark and forgotten corners of their love for one another.'A beautiful fable with a hard message at its core . . . There won't, I suspect, be a more important work of fiction published this year.' John Sutherland, The Times'An exceptional novel . . . The Buried Giant does what important books do: it remains in the mind long after it has been read, refusing to leave.' Neil Gaiman, New York Times Book Review'A beautiful, heartbreaking book about the duty to remember and the urge to forget.' Alex Preston, Observer
Light Perpetual
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Author : Francis Spufford
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2022-04-05
Light Perpetual written by Francis Spufford and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-04-05 with Fiction categories.
A novel set in 1944 London imagines the lives of five children who perished during a bombing at a local store, tracing their everyday dramas as they live through the extraordinary, unimaginable changes of twentieth-century London.
The Rest Is Noise
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Author : Alex Ross
language : en
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Release Date : 2007-10-16
The Rest Is Noise written by Alex Ross and has been published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-10-16 with Music categories.
Winner of the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism A New York Times Book Review Top Ten Book of the Year Time magazine Top Ten Nonfiction Book of 2007 Newsweek Favorite Books of 2007 A Washington Post Book World Best Book of 2007 In this sweeping and dramatic narrative, Alex Ross, music critic for The New Yorker, weaves together the histories of the twentieth century and its music, from Vienna before the First World War to Paris in the twenties; from Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia to downtown New York in the sixties and seventies up to the present. Taking readers into the labyrinth of modern style, Ross draws revelatory connections between the century's most influential composers and the wider culture. The Rest Is Noise is an astonishing history of the twentieth century as told through its music.
The Red Parts
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Author : Maggie Nelson
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2017-06-01
The Red Parts written by Maggie Nelson and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-06-01 with True Crime categories.
Selected as a Book of the Year 2017 in the Guardian 'Maggie Nelson’s short, singular books feel pretty light in the hand... But in the head and the heart, they seem unfathomably vast, their cleverness and odd beauty lingering on' Observer In 1969, Jane Mixer, a first-year law student at the University of Michigan, posted a note on a student noticeboard to share a lift back to her hometown of Muskegon for spring break. She never made it: she was brutally murdered, her body found a few miles from campus the following day. The Red Parts is Maggie Nelson’s singular account of her aunt Jane’s death, and the trial that took place some 35 years afterward. Officially unsolved for decades, the case was reopened in 2004 after a DNA match identified a new suspect, who would soon be arrested and tried. In 2005, Nelson found herself attending the trial, and reflecting with fresh urgency on our relentless obsession with violence, particularly against women. Resurrecting her interior world during the trial – in all its horror, grief, obsession, recklessness, scepticism and downright confusion – Maggie Nelson has produced a work of profound integrity and, in its subtle indeterminacy, deadly moral precision.
How The Telegraph Changed The World
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Author : William J. Phalen
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2014-12-03
How The Telegraph Changed The World written by William J. Phalen and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-12-03 with History categories.
Invented in the 1830's, the telegraph soon became indispensable. By 1851 there were more than 50 companies providing telegraphic service in the United States alone. The telegraph played a pivotal role in warfare beginning with the American Civil War, featured prominently in the creation of the first large American corporation, Western Union, and made possible long distance communication with the laying of the transatlantic cable. This book describes the global impact of the telegraph from its advent to its eventual eclipse by the telephone four decades later.
Enlightenment Now
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Author : Steven Pinker
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2018-02-13
Enlightenment Now written by Steven Pinker and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02-13 with Psychology categories.
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2018 ONE OF THE ECONOMIST'S BOOKS OF THE YEAR "My new favorite book of all time." --Bill Gates If you think the world is coming to an end, think again: people are living longer, healthier, freer, and happier lives, and while our problems are formidable, the solutions lie in the Enlightenment ideal of using reason and science. By the author of the new book, Rationality. Is the world really falling apart? Is the ideal of progress obsolete? In this elegant assessment of the human condition in the third millennium, cognitive scientist and public intellectual Steven Pinker urges us to step back from the gory headlines and prophecies of doom, which play to our psychological biases. Instead, follow the data: In seventy-five jaw-dropping graphs, Pinker shows that life, health, prosperity, safety, peace, knowledge, and happiness are on the rise, not just in the West, but worldwide. This progress is not the result of some cosmic force. It is a gift of the Enlightenment: the conviction that reason and science can enhance human flourishing. Far from being a naïve hope, the Enlightenment, we now know, has worked. But more than ever, it needs a vigorous defense. The Enlightenment project swims against currents of human nature--tribalism, authoritarianism, demonization, magical thinking--which demagogues are all too willing to exploit. Many commentators, committed to political, religious, or romantic ideologies, fight a rearguard action against it. The result is a corrosive fatalism and a willingness to wreck the precious institutions of liberal democracy and global cooperation. With intellectual depth and literary flair, Enlightenment Now makes the case for reason, science, and humanism: the ideals we need to confront our problems and continue our progress.
