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Kostas Dervenis
Kostas Dervenis (born 1958)

martial artist, engineer

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Aron Ralston
Aron Ralston (born 1975)

engineer, motivational speaker, mountaineer, autobiographer

  • Carnegie Mellon University

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Between a Rock and a Hard Place
127 Hours Vol. 5
Lillian Moller Gilbreth
Lillian Moller Gilbreth (1878-1972)

industrial engineer, psychologist, teacher, photographer, businessperson, inventor, mechanical engineer, engineer

  • University of California, Berkeley, Brown University

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As I remember
The quest of the one best way
The psychology of management
The psychology of management
Living with our children
The psychology of management
The foreman in manpower management
Management in the home
The home-maker and her job
Heim und Arbeit
Living with our children
Benoît Prieur
Benoît Prieur (born 1975)

Wikimedian, software engineer, correspondent, radio personality, amateur photographer, OpenStreetMap contributor, geohasher, teacher, chess player

  • Institut d'informatique d'Auvergne, Blaise Pascal University (Clermont II)

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Jean Forestier ou la conquête de Paris-Roubaix 1955
Programmation en C#
Informatique quantique
WPF
Projets personnels et gestion du temps, pistes d'organisation
Pygame - Initiez-vous au développement de jeux vidéo en Python
Traitement automatique du langage naturel avec Python
PyQt5 - Développez vos interfaces graphiques en Python
Rust - Développez des programmes robustes et sécurisés
Sonia Reid
Sonia Reid (born 1972)

mechanical engineer

  • Laval University

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Max Maria von Weber
Max Maria von Weber (1822-1881)

civil engineer, engineer, railway engineer

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Carl Maria von Weber
Standard gauge and narrow gauge
Nationalität und Eisenbahnpolitik
Die Wasserstrassen Nord-europa's. Ergebnisse von im Auftrage des Herrn Königl. Preuss. Ministers ...
Aus der welt der arbeit
Our Railway System Viewed in Reference to Invasion
Vom Orient bis nach Amerika
Der staatliche einfluss auf die entwickelung der eisenbahnen minderer ordnung
Die schule des eisenbahnwesens
Die Entlastung der Culturarbeit durch den Dienst der physikalischen Kräfte
Populäre Erörterungen von Eisenbahn-Zeitfragen
Schule des Eisenbahnwesens
Ausflug Nach Dem Französischen Nordafrika
Vom rollenden flügelrade
José Gallego Fernández
José Gallego Fernández (1890-1978)

engineer

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Charles Babbage
Charles Babbage (1791-1871)

mathematician, computer scientist, inventor, economist, philosopher, engineer, astronomer

  • University of Cambridge, University of Cambridge

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The works of Charles Babbage
The economy of machinery and manufactures
Charles Babbage
Passages from the life of a philisopher
Charles Babbage and his calculating engines
Charles Babbage and his calculating engines
The exposition of 1851
Decline of Science in England
Testt
The ninth Bridgewater treatise
Table of the logarithms of the natural numbers, from 1 to 108000
Observations on the temple of Serapis at Pozzuoli near Naples
Thoughts on the principles of taxation, with reference to a property tax, and its exceptions
A comparative view of the various institutions for the assurance of lives
Examples of the solutions of functional equations
The analytical engine and mechanical notation
Ninth Bridgwater Treatise Fragment
Abstract of a paper entitled Observations on the Temple of Serapis at Pozzuoli
Science and reform
Memoirs of the Analytical Society
Works of Charles Babbage Vol 9
Demonstration of a theorem relating to prime numbers
Works of Charles Babbage Vol 3
Works of Charles Babbage Vol 5
Works of Charles Babbage Vol 10
Abstract of a Paper entitled. Observations on the Temple of Serapis at Pozzuoli
The Exposition of 1851; or, Views of the industry, the science, and the government of England
Examples of the Solutions of Functional Equations
The history of science and technology
Works of Charles Babbage Vol 1
Geometry and Faith: A Fragmentary Supplement to the Ninth Bridgewater Treatise
Charles Babbage and his calculating engines
Table of the logarithms of the natural numbers
Works of Charles Babbage Vol 2
How to invent machinery
A letter to sir Humphry Davy, Bart. president of the Royal Society, etc. etc. on the application of machinery to the purpose of calculating and printing mathematical tables
Observations on the measurement of heights by the barometer
On the theoretical principles of the machinery for calculating tables
Charles Babbage on the Principles and Development of the Calculator and Other Seminal Writings
On the advantage of a collection of numbers, to be entitled the constants of nature and of art
Ninth Bridgewater Treatise
On machinery for calculating and printing mathematical tables
Babbage's occulting telegraph
Works of Charles Babbage Vol 8
Report of the Committee, appointed by the Council of the Royal Society, to consider the subject refferd to in Mr. Stewart' Letter, relative to Mr. Babbage's Calculating machine, and to report thereupon / [I.T.W. Herschel]
Reflections on the Decline of Science in England
Memoir of the life and labours of Charles Babbage ..
Works of Charles Babbage Vol 11
An examination of some questions connected with games of chance. By Charles Babbage ..
On the Principles and Development of the Calculator and Other Seminal Writings
Examples of the Solutions of Functional Equations
Preussens Deutsche Politik und Ihre Gegner
On the application of analysis to the discovery of local theorems and porisms. By Charles Babbage ..
Works of Charles Babbage
Works of Charles Babbage Vol 6
Babbage's Calculating Engines
Ninth Bridgewater Treatise
The Exposition of Eighteen Fifty-One
Tables of logarithms of the natural numbers from 1 to 108,000
The difference engine and table making
Exposition Of 1851
Works of Charles Babbage Vol 4
On the advantage of a collection of numbers, to be entitled the constants of nature and art / by Charles Babbage
A chapter on street nuisances
Mathematical papers
An examination of some questions connected with games of chance
La macchina analitica
Ninth Bridgwater Treatise Fragment
Ninth Bridgewater Treatise. a Fragment
Observations on the analogy which subsists between the calculus of functions and other branches of analysis. By Charles Babbage ..
Observations on the Temple of Serapis at Pozzuoli Near Naples; With an Attempt to Explain the Causes of the Frequent Elevation and Depression of Large ... Prove That Those Causes Continue in Action at
Laws of mechanical notation (for consideration) / [C. Babbage]
Scientific and miscellaneous papers
Account of the repetition of M. Arago's experiments on the magnetism manifested by various substances during the act of rotation. By C. Babbage ... and J. F. W. Herschel ..
The Exposition of 1851
Table of logarithms of the natural numbers from 1 to 108,000
Table of Logarithms of the Natural Numbers
Barometrical observations made at the fall of the Staubbach
Minutes of the Council of the Royal Society relating to the report of the Committee on Mr. Babbage's Calculating machine. February 12, 1829
On currency, on a new system of manufacturing, andon the effet of machinery on human labour
Observations on the discovery in various localities of the remains of human art
Specimen of logarithmic tables printed with different coloured inks on variously coloured papers
Essay on General Principles Which Regulate the Application of Machinery to Manufactures
A letter to T.P. Courtenay, on the proportionate number of births of the two sexes under different circumstances
Table of the Logarithms of the Natural Numbers
Works of Charles Babbage Vol 7
Scientific and miscellaneous papers II
Thoughts on the principles of taxation
The ninth Bridgewater treatise
Of the constants of nature
A chapter on street nuisances
Charles Babbage on the principles and development of the calculator
Table of logarithms of the natural numbers
The Exposition of 1851
The ninth Bridgewater treatise
On the influence of signs in mathematical reasoning
An analysis of the statistics of the Clearing House during the year 1839
Thoughts on the principles of taxation, with reference to a property tax, and its exceptions
Observations addressed at the last anniversary, to the President and Fellows of the Royal Society, after the delivery of the medals
Scientific and miscellaneous papers I.
A comparative view of the various institutions for the assurance of lives
The ninth Bridgewater treatise
The Exposition of 1851, or, Views of the industry, the science, and the government, of England
The Exposition of 1851, or, Views of the industry, the science, and the government, of England