1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910466010703321

Titolo

History of technology . Volume twenty, 1998 / / edited by Graham Hollister-Short

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[London] : , : Bloomsbury Academic, , 2009

ISBN

1-350-01889-9

1-350-01887-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (204 p.)

Collana

History of technology

Disciplina

609

Soggetti

Technology - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

Nota di contenuto

Editorial -- The Contributors -- Notes for Contributors -- The PAL-SECAM Colour Television Controversy / WALTER KAISER -- Inventing the Miracle Battery: Thomas Edison and the Electric Vehicle / GIJS MOM -- Two Knights in Pandemonium: A Worm's-eye View of Boulton, Watt & Co., c. 1800--1820 / JENNIFER TANN -- The Mechanization of Carving: The Development of the Carving Machine, Especially in Relation to the Manufacture of Furniture and the Working of Wood / CLIVE EDWARDS -- Protection and Promotion: Privileges for Inventions and Books of Machines in the Early Modern Period / MARCUS POPPLOW -- The Archer's Paradox and Modelling: A Review / B.W. KOOI -- A New Way of Raising Water by Fire: Denis Papin's Treatise of 1707 and its Reception by Contemporaries / ALAN SMITH -- Contents of Former Volumes.

Sommario/riassunto

"The technical problems confronting different societies and periods, and the measures taken to solve them form the concern of this annual collection of essays. Volumes contain technical articles ranging widely in subject, time and region, as well as general papers on the history of technology. In addition to dealing with the history of technical discovery and change, History of Technology also explores the relations of technology to other aspects of life -- social, cultural and economic -- and shows how technological development has shaped, and been shaped by, the society in which it occurred."--Bloomsbury Publishing.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910557664803321

Autore

Li Zhenlong

Titolo

Big Data Computing for Geospatial Applications

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Basel, Switzerland, : MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2020

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (222 p.)

Soggetti

Geography

Research & information: general

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

The convergence of big data and geospatial computing has brought forth challenges and opportunities to Geographic Information Science with regard to geospatial data management, processing, analysis, modeling, and visualization. This book highlights recent advancements in integrating new computing approaches, spatial methods, and data management strategies to tackle geospatial big data challenges and meanwhile demonstrates opportunities for using big data for geospatial applications. Crucial to the advancements highlighted in this book is the integration of computational thinking and spatial thinking and the transformation of abstract ideas and models to concrete data structures and algorithms.