Teknikens historia

Varje år rankas Sverige som ett av de ledande innovationsländerna, sett till antal historiskt banbrytande uppfinningar, patent i förhållande till folkmängden eller nystartade innovationsföretag. Den traditionella förklaringen till denna styrkeposi...

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Ingenjörerna är sammanflätade med Sveriges moderna historia. De var ett par tusen i slutet av 1800-talet, de är flera hundratusen nu. Genom snilleföretagen gjorde de Sverige rikt, i folkhemmet konstruerade de den grundläggande välfärden - vatten o...

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#1 New York Times non-fiction bestseller #2 Sunday Times non-fiction bestseller SHORTLISTED FOR THE FINANCIAL TIMES BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD Epic feats. Epic failures. An epic story. Walter Isaacson charts Elon Musks journey from humble beg...

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En sammanställning av fakta på över 200 mopeder och påhängsmotorer som alla sålts i Sverige från 1952 och framåt. Varje moped och påhängsmotor presenteras med en eller flera bilder och utförlig teknisk data.

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Listan över människans tekniska uppfinningar har hunnit bli lång. Allt från vattenhjul och urverk till datorer och mobiltelefoner finns i vår tekniska historia. I denna reviderade upplaga berättar Bosse Sundin bl.a. om teknikens roll i de tidiga h...

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From one of the most brilliant and capacious thinkers of our time, a new volume on the history of human ingenuity-and its attendant breakthroughs and busts. The world is never finished catching up with Vaclav Smil. In his latest and perhaps most r...

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Every year, Sweden ranks near the top of the list of the world"s most innovative countries in terms of the number of historically epoch-making innovations, patents granted per capita and innovation start-up companies. The most common reason c...

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Longlisted for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year The most urgent story in modern tech begins not in Silicon Valley but two hundred years ago in rural England, when workers known as the Luddites rose up rather than starve at the hands o...

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A groundbreaking history of architecture told through the relationship between buildings and energy The story of architecture is the story of humanity. The buildings we live in, from the humblest pre-historic huts to today's skyscrapers, reve...

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Arkitekten och överintendenten Carl Johan Cronstedt presenterade 1767 ett memorial med titeln "Beskrifning på Ny Inrättning af Kakelugnar til Weds Besparing för Rikets råd". Där beskrevs en revolutionerande konstruktion som skulle komma ...

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The bestselling co-author of Why Nations Fail and the bestselling co-author  of 13 Bankers deliver a bold reinterpretation of economics and history that will fundamentally change how you see the world   A thousand years of history and co...

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A stunning visual celebration of the world's aircraft and the pioneers who made a dream become reality. Introducing Flight - a historical and visual exploration of awe-inspiring aviation over a period of one hundred years, from the earliest a...

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This stunning book is a glorious celebration of all things train and track! Packed with stunning photography, The Train Book catalogues the development of trains from early steam to diesel engines and electric locomotives, explores in detail iconi...

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Remember what a wild frontier the early days of home gaming were? Manufacturers releasing new consoles at a breakneck pace; developers creating games that kept us up all night, then going bankrupt the next day; and what self-respecting kid didn&ap...

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In the years before the Second World War, in a sleepy air force base in central Alabama, a small group of renegade pilots put forth a radical idea. What if we made bombing so accurate that wars could be fought entirely from the air? What if we cou...

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Renowned aviation artist Ron Cole's accurate depictions of fighter planes and bombers pay exciting tribute to the men and machines engaged in action over the Pacific and Europe during the harrowing years of World War II. The highly authentic paint...

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Take an action-packed flight through the history of aircraft and the intrepid pioneers who made a dream become reality. Uncover the engineering behind more than 800 aircraft models, from military jets to commercial planes. This visual history book...

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Smartphones, skyscrapers, spacecraft. Modern technology seems mind-bogglingly complex. But beneath the surface, it can be beautifully simple. In Nuts and Bolts , award-winning engineer and broadcaster Roma Agrawal deconstructs our most complex fea...

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"Made me look at the industrial revolution, invention, sleeping beauties, contexts and the forces that shape our societies differently."David Byrne, New York Times Book Review How the history of technological revolutions can help us bett...

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Superlatives tend to fail in describing Joan Blaeus Atlas Maiorthat being said, it stands as one of the most extravagant feats in the history of mapmaking. The original Latin edition, completed in 1665, was the largest and most expensive book to b...

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In a fleeting 14-year period between two world wars, Germany's Bauhaus school of art and design changed the face of modernity. With utopian ideas for the future, the school developed a pioneering fusion of fine art, craftsmanship, and technology, ...

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ÅMMEBERGS ZINKVERK I industriserien "Sveriges Industriella Etablissementer 1870-1871", häfte tre, behandlas Åmmebergs Zinkverk. I två handmålade planscher visas en mäktig industrianläggning som i mitten av 1800-talet tog form i Åmmeberg....

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Twenty five years ago, it didn't exist. Today, twenty million people worldwide are surfing the Net. "Where Wizards Stay Up Late" is the exciting story of the pioneers responsible for creating the most talked about, most influential, and ...

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Winner of the Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books 2012, the world's leading prize for popular science writing. We live in the information age. But every era of history has had its own information revolution: the invention of writing,...

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In Engines, the always entertaining and informative Theodore Gray explores the glorious guts and intricate innards of dozens of impressive machines. Through his engaging and unexpected stories and Nick Mann's trademark gorgeous photography, G...

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In April 1956, a refitted oil tanker carried fifty-eight shipping containers from Newark to Houston. From that modest beginning, container shipping developed into a huge industry that made the boom in global trade possible. The Box tells the drama...

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1001 Inventions provides unique insight into a significant time period in Muslim history that has been looked over by much of the world. A time where discoveries were made and inventions were created that have impacted how Western civilization and...

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Vallonernas invandring till Sverige i 1600-talets början är väl känd. Trots det saknas mycken kunskap om dessa tidiga ut- och invandrare. Varifrån kom de? Varför flyttade de till Sverige? Vad har vallonerna betytt för svensk järnhantering? Hur län...

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I denna bok står vetenskapsmannen och kärnkraftsmotståndaren Hannes Alfvén i centrum. Men det är ingen vanlig biografi, utan det är också en kulturhistorisk skildring av synen på teknik och vetenskap i 1900-talets Sverige. Här tecknas en framtidst...

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This concise guide explains the history, theory, potential, application, and limitations of Artificial Intelligence. Boden shows how research into AI has shed light on the working of human and animal minds, and she considers the philosophical chal...

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