Machinery category: 869 books

Cover of Advanced District Heating and Cooling (DHC) Systems
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Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2015

Advanced District Heating and Cooling (DHC) Systems presents the latest information on the topic, providing valuable information on the distribution of centrally generated heat or cold energy to buildings, usually in the form of space heating, cooling, and hot water. As DHC systems are more...
Cover of Electrical Power Engineering

Electrical Power Engineering

Current State, Problems and Perspectives

by Vasily Y. Ushakov
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2017

This book provides the short history, current state, main problems and historical perspective for the development of electrical power engineering. The focus of the textbook is on the two most important issues related to meeting of the growing needs of humanity in electricity: "Hunger for energy"...
Cover of Vulnerable Systems
by Wolfgang Kröger, Enrico Zio
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2011

The safe management of the complex distributed systems and critical infrastructures which constitute the backbone of modern industry and society entails identifying and quantifying their vulnerabilities to design adequate protection, mitigation, and emergency action against failure. In practice, there...
Cover of Submarine Power Cables

Submarine Power Cables

Design, Installation, Repair, Environmental Aspects

by Thomas Worzyk
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2009

The demand for high-performance submarine power cables is increasing as more and more offshore wind parks are installed, and the national electric grids are interconnected. Submarine power cables are installed for the highest voltages and power to transport electric energy under the sea between islands,...
Cover of Blast Off to Space Camp
by Hillary Wolfe
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017

In this encouraging nonfiction reader, children visit an actual space camp! Readers will learn what astronauts eat, where they sleep, and how they prepare for journeys into space through the help of robots and stimulators. Featuring vibrant images, informative text, and fun, interesting facts, readers are encouraged to discover what they would want to explore in space!
Cover of The Quest for Speed: Vehicles
by Lisa Greathouse
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018

The need for speed is the motivating factor in this engaging book. Readers learn the history of travel from the very slow to the supersonic and beyond, including everything in between. They learn and discover the factors that influence motion for all types of vehicles: land, air, and water alike....
Cover of DKfindout! World War I
by Brian Williams
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018

Celebrating the 100th anniversary of the end of WWI, Findout! dicusses the build-up to the war, along with battles, history, technology, and more. Explore pre-war Europe, the US's entry into World War I, the role of women during the War, the technology developed, tanks and artillery, intelligence,...
Cover of Human Friendly Mechatronics
by Masaharu Takano, Eiji Arai, Tatsuo Arai
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2001

The book includes 61 selected papers from 106 presented at the second International Conference on Machine Automation (ICMA2000). The conference focused, for the first time, on human friendly mechantronics which covers machine systems interacting with human beings, psychological, physiological, and...
Cover of Advances in Reconfigurable Mechanisms and Robots II
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Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2015

This book presents the most recent advances in the research and applications of reconfigurable mechanisms and robots. It collects 93 independently reviewed papers presented at the Third ASME/IFToMM International Conference on Reconfigurable Mechanisms and Robots (ReMAR 2015) held in Beijing, China,...
Cover of What Is the Panama Canal?
by Janet B. Pascal, Who HQ
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014

Before 1914, traveling from the East Coast to the West Coast meant going by land across the entire United States. To go by sea involved a long journey around South America and north along the Pacific Coast. But then, in a dangerous and amazing feat of engineering, a 48-mile-long channel was dug through Panama, creating the world’s most famous shortcut: the Panama Canal!
Cover of My Gun
by Sirene Rogers
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2016

My journey through building my first AR-15 gun. Having fun in the workshop isn't entirely a man's world! Hopefully this will encourage other women out there to spend a bit of time learning how to build a gun, it isn't all that hard to do.
Cover of Balers Go to Work
by Emma Carlson Berne
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018

Balers take the stage in this title published jointly with New Holland Agriculture. From the different parts balers have to how farmers use these machines, readers will learn all about balers and how they work.
Cover of Skid Steers Go to Work
by Emma Carlson Berne
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018

This exciting book explains the role of skid steers on farms. Published jointly with New Holland Agriculture, the title tells all about how skid steers work and illustrates how they are used by farmers.
Cover of Simple Machines

Simple Machines

Wheels, Levers, and Pulleys

by David A. Adler
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2015

How many simple machines do you use every day? Probably more than you realize! Machines make work easier— helping break things apart, lift heavy objects, and change the power and direction of force applied to them. In this accessible picture book, celebrated nonfiction author David A. Adler...
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