Teknikens historia

Varje år rankas Sverige som ett av de ledande innovationsländerna, sett till antal historiskt banbrytande uppfinningar, patent i förhållande till folkmängden eller nystartade innovationsföretag. Den traditionella förklaringen till denna styrkeposi...

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Every year, Sweden ranks near the top of the list of the world"s most innovative countries in terms of the number of historically epoch-making innovations, patents granted per capita and innovation start-up companies. The most common reason c...

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Ingenjörerna är sammanflätade med Sveriges moderna historia. De var ett par tusen i slutet av 1800-talet, de är flera hundratusen nu. Genom snilleföretagen gjorde de Sverige rikt, i folkhemmet konstruerade de den grundläggande välfärden - vatten o...

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En sammanställning av fakta på över 200 mopeder och påhängsmotorer som alla sålts i Sverige från 1952 och framåt. Varje moped och påhängsmotor presenteras med en eller flera bilder och utförlig teknisk data.

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Arkitekten och överintendenten Carl Johan Cronstedt presenterade 1767 ett memorial med titeln "Beskrifning på Ny Inrättning af Kakelugnar til Weds Besparing för Rikets råd". Där beskrevs en revolutionerande konstruktion som skulle komma ...

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Listan över människans tekniska uppfinningar har hunnit bli lång. Allt från vattenhjul och urverk till datorer och mobiltelefoner finns i vår tekniska historia. I denna reviderade upplaga berättar Bosse Sundin bl.a. om teknikens roll i de tidiga h...

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ONE OF AMAZON'S TOP 100 BOOKS OF 2014 Neanderthal Man tells the story of geneticist Svante Paabo's mission to answer this question: what can we learn from the genomes of our closest evolutionary relatives? Beginning with the study of DNA in Egypti...

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From the New York Times-bestselling author of Where Good Ideas Come From and Farsighted, a new look at the power and legacy of great ideas. In this illustrated history, Steven Johnson explores the history of innovation over centuries, tracing face...

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Ingenjörerna är sammanflätade med Sveriges moderna historia. De var ett par tusen i slutet av 1800-talet, de är flera hundratusen nu. Genom snilleföretagen gjorde de Sverige rikt, i folkhemmet konstruerade de den grundläggande välfärden - vatten o...

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This New York Times bestselling memoir of a veteran NASA flight director tells riveting stories from the early days of the Mercury program through Apollo 11 (the moon landing) and Apollo 13, for both of which Kranz was flight director. Gene Kranz ...

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From the pyramids in the north to the temples in the south, ancient artisans left their marks all over Egypt, unique marks that reveal craftsmanship we would be hard pressed to duplicate today. Drawing together the results of more than 30 years of...

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Forty years ago, Israeli psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky wrote a series of breathtakingly original studies undoing our assumptions about the decision-making process. Their papers showed the ways in which the human mind erred, system...

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CAUTION: You have now arrived in the past. Watch out for dinosaurs. With this trusty guide, you can create a world in which humanity matures quickly and efficiently, instead of spending 200,000 years stumbling around in the dark without language, ...

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This concise guide explains the history, theory, potential, application, and limitations of Artificial Intelligence. Boden shows how research into AI has shed light on the working of human and animal minds, and she considers the philosophical chal...

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In a fleeting 14-year period between two world wars, Germany's Bauhaus school of art and design changed the face of modernity. With utopian ideas for the future, the school developed a pioneering fusion of fine art, craftsmanship, and technology, ...

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When technology reinforces inequality, it's not just a glitch-it's a signal that we need to redesign our systems to create a more equitable world. The word "glitch" implies an incidental error, as easy to patch up as it is to identify. B...

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Bokens tyngdpunkt är ett flöde av bilder från arbetslivets förvandling mellan 1897 och 2002, sammanställda av Peter Gullers. Martin Fritz textkapitel gör de väsentliga nedslagen i modern svensk industrihistoria. Den industriella omvandlingen är oc...

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Albert Einstein was a German mathematician and physicist who developed the special and general theories of relativity.   In 1921, he won the Nobel Prize for physics for his explanation of the photoelectric effect. In the following decade, he ...

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In the years before the Second World War, in a sleepy air force base in central Alabama, a small group of renegade pilots put forth a radical idea. What if we made bombing so accurate that wars could be fought entirely from the air? What if we cou...

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History is written by the victors. But that is no comfort to those crossed out by the editor's pen. For years, science textbooks equated electricity and light with one man, Thomas Edison, while the genius whose pioneering electrical technologies t...

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The technological marvel that facilitated the Apollo missions to the Moon was the on-board computer. In the 1960s most computers filled an entire room, but the spacecraft's computer was required to be compact and low power. Although people today f...

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Winner of the Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books 2012, the world's leading prize for popular science writing. We live in the information age. But every era of history has had its own information revolution: the invention of writing, the ...

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This wide-ranging exploration of the Renaissance sees the period as a time of unprecedented intellectual excitement and cultural experimentation and interaction on a global scale. It guides the reader through the key issues that defined the period...

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NOMINERAD TILL ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRICE 2018 »Prosan är elegant och historien om precision är berättad med stor skicklighet. ... Överlag är detta en strålande bok som förtjänas att läsas av alla med intresse för hur teknik och vetenskap da...

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This newly reissued debut book in the Rutgers University Press Classics imprint is the story of the search for a rocket propellant which could be trusted to take man into space. This search was a hazardous enterprise carried out by rival labs who ...

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A stunning visual celebration of the world's aircraft and the pioneers who made a dream become reality. Introducing Flight - a historical and visual exploration of awe-inspiring aviation over a period of one hundred years, from the earliest aeropl...

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Discusses in nontechnical language ten central questions about technology that illuminate what technology is and why it matters. Technology matters, writes David Nye, because it is inseparable from being human. We have used tools for more than 100...

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First published in 1983, this user-friendly guide to the Commodore 64 helped many owners of the much-loved home computer understand their machine to a whole new level. The details within the book enabled users to go further than the confines of pr...

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Ingenjörerna är sammanflätade med Sveriges moderna historia. De var ett par tusen i slutet av 1800-talet, de är flera hundratusen nu. Genom snilleföretagen gjorde de Sverige rikt, i folkhemmet konstruerade de den grundläggande välfärden - vatten o...

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