| Description |
1 online resource (97 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; INTRODUCTION: The Speed of Change; PART I. NEW SOURCES OF POWER; ELECTRIC POWER; Michael Faraday; Power Stations; Hydro-Electric Power; POWER FROM THE ATOM; The Growing Use of Electric Power; THE TURBINE; Parsons and the Steam Tu; Whittle and the Gas Turbine; THE INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE; The Petrol Engine; The Diesel Engine; POWER FROM OIL; How we get our Oil; At the Refinery; Changes brought about by the new sources of Power; PART II. NEW MATERIALS AND NEW PROCESSES; THE AGE OF STEEL; The Bessemer Process; The Open Hearth Process |
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Electric Furnace ProcessesFinishing Processes; Tin Plate; Steel Alloys; Aluminium; SYNTHETIC MATERIALS; CHEMICALS FROM COAL; CHEMICALS FROM PETROLEUM; Polymers; THE STORY OF SYNTHETIC RUBBER; PLASTICS; Bakelite; Polythene; Polyvinyl chloride, polystyrene; Plastics in Everyday Life; NEW TEXTILES: MAN-MADE FIBRES; Rayon; Nylon; Terylene; A Revolution in Dress; THE RISE OF THE ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY; Valves and Transistors; New uses for Television; Electronic Computers; TOWARDS AUTOMATION; THINGS TO DO; BOOK LIST; SOME IMPORTANT EVENTS, DISCOVERIES AND INVENTIONS |
| Summary |
First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Humphreys, D. W
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| ISBN |
9781136615900 |
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1136615903 |
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9781136615832 |
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1136615830 |
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