Power and Progress

G. C. Thornley

За особеностите на екземпляра

Състояние:: Много добро
Забележка:: Без следи от употреба, леко овехтял външен вид.
Език:: Английски
Наличност:: 1 бр.

За изданието

Издателство:: Longmans
Град на издаване:: London
Година:: 1962 г.
Език:: Английски
Страници:: 126
Корици:: Меки
Поредици и библиотеки:: The Bridge Series
Категория:: Научно-популярна литература
Тегло (гр.):: 145
Ширина (мм):: 125
Височина (мм):: 185
Дебелина (мм):: 9

Поредиоца "The Bridge Series". * FOREWORD Foreign students of science, in many cases, learn English as a second language. It is for them that this book has been written. The aim of the book is not to teach science, but to introduce such students to the use of scientific words and expressions in English. It will, I hope, provide a stepping-stone for them to the harder task of reading unsimplified English books on their own subjects. The first word of the title refers chiefly to the articles on coal and oil, which are discussed mainly from a present-day standpoint; hut other sources of power are mentioned in the book. In the other articles, except the last, an attempt has been made to give a skeleton history of the progress of the science, or to compare the old and the new. In the last chapter, my indebtedness to H. G. Wells, which I here acknowledge, will be evident: it would probably be impossible to write of the future without being influenced to some extent by " The Sleeper Awakes." G.C.T. * Contents I Coal 1 II The Steam-engine 11 III The Locomotive and the Railway 17 IV Oil 26 V Flying 34 VI Mass Production 45 VII Signals and Signalling 56 VIII The Telescope 68 IX Medicine 83 X The Future 100 Index of People 107 Glossary 109

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