Elmer Sperry
Inventor and Engineer
Häftad, Engelska, 1993
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Fri frakt för medlemmar vid köp för minst 249 kr.This is a biography of a major American inventor, who obtained more than 350 patents during his lifetime. Elmer Sperry contributed greatly to the technological changes occurring between 1880 and 1930. He was best known for the Sperry gyrocompass and automatic pilot, and his inventions included arc-light systems, mining machinery, electric automobiles and streetcars, and electrochemical processes. Characteristic of his various inventions were feedback controls which have made automation a fact of life. The book won the Dexter Prize of the Society for the History of Technology.
Produktinformation
- Utgivningsdatum1993-11-26
- Mått197 x 254 x 20 mm
- Vikt862 g
- FormatHäftad
- SpråkEngelska
- SerieJohns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology
- Antal sidor368
- FörlagJohns Hopkins University Press
- ISBN9780801847561
- UtmärkelserWinner of Dexter Prize for an Outstanding Book on the History of Technology 1972 (United States)