Remarkable engineers : from Riquet to Shannon

• Material Type: 図書
• ISBN: 9780521516211 (hbk.); 0521516218 (hbk.); 9780521731652 (pbk.); 0521731658 (pbk.)
• Title: Remarkable engineers : from Riquet to Shannon
• Author/Editor: Ioan James.
• Author Heading: James, I. M. (Ioan Mackenzie), 1928-
• Publication, Distribution, etc.: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
• Publication Date: 2010.
• Publication Date (W3CDTF): 2010
• Extent: xv, 201 pages
• Other physical details: illustrations
• Size: 23 cm
• Place of Publication (Country Code): GB
• Text Language Code: eng
• Genre/Form Terms: Biography.; History.
• Content Type: text
• Media Type: unmediated
• Carrier Type: volume
• Subject Heading: Engineers--Biography.; Engineers--History.; Engineering--History.; Engineering.; Engineers.; Ingenieur.
• LCC: TA139
• DDC: 620.00922
• NDLC: M31
• Target Audience: 一般
• Note (Bibliography): Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-199).
• Holding library: 国立国会図書館
• Call No.: M31-B35
• Data Provider (Database): 国立国会図書館 : 国立国会図書館蔵書; https://ndlsearch.ndl.go.jp
• Bibliographic ID (NDL): 025520817; http://id.ndl.go.jp/bib/025520817
• LC Control Number: 2010293521; https://lccn.loc.gov/2010293521
• OCLC No.: 473455232; https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/473455232
• Cataloging Rule: RDA
• Bibliographic Record Category (NDL): 211

• Contents: From Riquet to WattFrom Jessop to Marc Isambard BrunelFrom Trevithick to Sadi Carnot...
• Summary, etc.: "Engineering transformed the world completely between the seventeenth and twenty-first centuries. Remarkable Engineers tells the story of 51 of the ke...

Table of Contents

Contents

Preface/ ix

Prologue/ xi

1 From Riquet to Watt/ 1

Pierre-Paul Riquet(1604-1680)/ 1