How the Eighteenth of May Came to Be Observed as Peace Day

The Evolution of Useful Things: How Everyday Artifacts-From Forks and Pins to Paper Clips and Zippers-Came to Be as They Are.

✍ Petroski, Henry 📂 Fiction 📅 2010 🏛 Vintage 🌐 English ⚖ 2 MB

### Amazon.com Review This surprising book may appear to be about the simple things of life--forks, paper clips, zippers--but in fact it is a far-flung historical adventure on the evolution of common culture. To trace the fork's history, Duke University professor of civil engineering Henry Petroski

The Evolution of Useful Things: How Everyday Artifacts-From Forks and Pins to Paper Clips and Zippers-Came to Be as They Are.

✍ Petroski, Henry 📂 Fiction 📅 2010 🏛 Vintage 🌐 English ⚖ 4 MB

### Amazon.com Review This surprising book may appear to be about the simple things of life--forks, paper clips, zippers--but in fact it is a far-flung historical adventure on the evolution of common culture. To trace the fork's history, Duke University professor of civil engineering Henry Petroski

How to Nurse Sick Children; Intended Esp

How to Nurse Sick Children; Intended Especially as a Help to the Nurses at the Hospitals for Sick Children: But Containing Directions Which May Be Found of Service to All Who Have the Charge of the Young

📂 Article 📅 1854 ⚖ 330 KB

Astronomical Observations and Experiment

Astronomical Observations and Experiments, Selected for the Purpose of Ascertaining the Relative Distances of Clusters of Stars, and of Investigating How Far the Power of Our Telescopes May Be Expected to Reach into Space, When Directed to Ambiguous Celestial Objects.

✍ Herschel, W. 📂 Article 📅 1833 🏛 The Royal Society ⚖ 90 KB

Astronomical Observations Made at Lancas

Astronomical Observations Made at Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Chiefly with a View to Ascertain the Longitude of That Borough, and as a Test of the Accuracy with Which the Longitude May Be Found by Lunar Observation; In a Letter from Andrew Ellicott to Robert Patterson

✍ Andrew Ellicott 📂 Article 📅 1809 🏛 JSTOR 🌐 English ⚖ 802 KB

How to choose one-dimensional basis func

How to choose one-dimensional basis functions so that a very efficient multidimensional basis may be extracted from a direct product of the one-dimensional functions: Energy levels of coupled systems with as many as 16 coordinates

✍ Dawes, Richard; Carrington, Tucker 📂 Article 📅 2005 🏛 American Institute of Physics 🌐 English ⚖ 308 KB