Technology from Diatrope Books

Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1964. Paperback. Good. Unmarked text. Color images. A Science Museum illustrated booklet. 23p. Measures 6 inches square.

Harmony Books, 1998. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. 6x1x10. Unmarked text. Dust jacket under clear mylar cover. Stick on inside flap covering price. 352p. Measures 6.5x9.5 inches. Exploring the mystical impulses behind our obsession with information technology, TechGnosis presents a fascinating and passionately original perspective on technoculture.

Weldon Owen, 2017. Hardcover. Very Good. Unmarked text. Illustrated throughout. Measures 8x10 inches. Unpaginated, about 250p. Examines the risk, benefits, pitfalls and path to success that every new product must encounter, and he does it in an easy to absorb, step-by-step, logical manner.

Dodd, Mead and Company, 1976. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Unmarked text. Unclipped dust jacket with chipping and edge wear. Jacket under clear archival mylar cover. More than 100 photographs, drawings, graphs, and tables. 182p. Index. Unmarked Perko log book included with order.

Book Club Associates with Thames and Hudson, 1974. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Unmarked text. Dust jacket, with a few nicks, under clear archival mylar cover. 488 illustrations, including 330 in color. 80 contributors and more than 360 articles. Edward de Bono, the editor, was a specialist on the creative process. Measures 10x12 inches. 248p.

World Resources Institute, 2002. Paperback (Saddle Stitched). Very Good. Unmarked text. Illustrated. Shows how electricity reform is, at root, an issue of sustainable development. 175p. Measures 8x10. Contributors include Daniel Bouille, Alix Clark, Hilda Dubrovsky, Elena Petkova, Sudhir C. Rajan, Frances Seymour, and others. Looks at the global context, Argentina, India, Indonesia, Bulgaria, Ghana, and South Africa.

Ernst Winter and Sons GmbH. Spiral Bound. Very Good. Unmarked, except for two notations about the machines. Text in English and German. Illustrated throughout. Plastic Comb binding with a second catalog bound in. Four punched-in holes for a notebook. Undated, but appears to be a late 1980s catalog. Unpaginated. Illustrated machines include a variety of sawing and grinding… Read more about this item

Simon and Schuster Children's Publishing, 1984. Hardcover. Good. Unmarked text. White label on back cover. Illustrated. Glossary. Index. 48p.

International Rice Research Institute, 1983. Paperback. Very Good. Unmarked text. Previous owner's name on front end page. 110p. Index. References. Sites: Otoand Tigbauan, Iloilo. Topics include socioeconomic environment, historical technologies, labor, basic resources, and more.

Society for the History of Technology, 2000. Paperback. Very Good. Unmarked text. Bibliography, Author index, Subject index. 202p. Compiled by Henry Lowood for the International Quarterly of the Society for the History of Technology.

City Lights Books, 1997. Paperback. Very Good. Unmarked. 189p. A candid account of the life of a software engineer who runs her own computer consulting business. Immersed in the abstract world of information, algorithms, and networks, she would like to give in to the seductions of the programmer's world, where "weird logic dreamers" like herself live "close to… Read more about this item

Harper and Row, 1977. Paperback. Very Good. Unmarked text. Well illustrated. Covers tools for measuring, saws, chisels, planes, hammers, screwdrivers, tools for boring holes, power drills, the sabre saw, Lathes, the drill press, circular saws, tools for delicate work, and more. Index. 160p.

British Railways, 1974. Paperback (Saddle Stitched). Very Good. Unmarked. Extensively illustrated. 32p. Measures 5.5x8.5 inches. The Great Western Railway opened in 1962. It was replaced by the Swindon Steam Railway Museum at the site of the old railway works in Swindon, England.

Johns Hopkins Press, 1998. Paperback. Very Good. Unmarked text. Illustrated. Includes "Data Processing and Technological Change: The Post Office Savings Bank 1861-1930" by Martin Campbell-Kelly, Mechanical Arts in Diderot's Encyclopedie by John R. Pannabecker, winecrafts and chemistry in 18th century France by JB Gough, and more. Reviews. 185p.

Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1994. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Unmarked text. Illustrated. Index. Glossary. 368p. From the author of the bestselling Object-Oriented Software Engineering, this is the first book to combine object-oriented technology and business process engineering. Jacobson demonstrates how object technology can be used in the BPR model, how the requirements of a new software system can be… Read more about this item

Scientific American, Inc, 1997. Paperback. Very Good. Unmarked. Well illustrated. 120p. Collection of articles. Contributors include: An Earlier Agricultural Revolution ( by Wilhelm G. Solheim II), Ancient Glazes (by Pamela B. Vandiver), Non-Euclidean Geometry Before Euclid (by Imre Toth) and An Ancient Greek Computer (by Derek J. de Solla Price).

Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. Paperback. Very Good. Unmarked. Includes "Opening Black's Box: Rethinking Feedback's Myth of Origin" by David A. Mindell, "National Science in the Nation's Heartland: The Ames Laboratory and Iowa State University, 1942-1965" by Joanne Abel Goldman, "A Network of Tinkerers: The Advent of the Radio and Television Receiver Industry in Japan" by Yuzo Takahashi,… Read more about this item

Society for the History of Technology/Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. Paperback. Good. Unmarked. Illustrated. Articles include "Plantation Factories: Science and Technology in Late-Eighteenth Century Cuba" by Maria M. Portuondo, the rise and demise of the outside fire escape by Sara E. Wermiel, Randall Patnode on the radio and the press in the 1920s, Thomas C. Lassman on… Read more about this item

New York Academy of Sciences, 2002. Paperback. Very Good. Unmarked. Result of the International Symposium on Visualization and Imaging in transport Phenomena held May 5-10, 2002 in Antalya, Turkey and organized by the International Centre for Heat and Mass Transfer and the Visualization Society of Japan. Illustrated. 344p. References. The papers in this volume examine: object recognition… Read more about this item

The MIT Press, 2000. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Unmarked. Beautifully illustrated. Unclipped dust jacket. Accompanying brilliant photographs of more than one hundred robots is an account of the little-known, yet vitally important scientific competition to build an autonomous robot. Containing extensive interviews with robotics pioneers, anecdotal "field notes" with behind-the-scenes information, and easy-to-understand technical data about the machines.… Read more about this item