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Konrad Zuse
Konrad Zuse (1910-1995)

inventor, entrepreneur, computer scientist, engineer, civil engineer

  • Technische Universität Berlin, Konrad-Zuse-Gymnasium Hoyerswerda

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Der Computer-Mein Lebenswerk
The computer, my life
Der Computer
Der Computer - Mein Lebenswerk (German Edition)
L'elaboratore nasce in Europa
The Computer - My Life
Assembler I
Der Computer -- Mein Lebenswerk
Assembler II
Petri-Netze aus der Sicht des Ingenieurs
Die Rechenmaschinen von Konrad Zuse (German Edition)
Assembler III
Rechnender Raum
Ansätze einer Theorie des Netzautomaten
Petri-Netze aus der Sicht des Ingenieurs
Was ist und wie verwirklicht sich
Assembler Iii
Rechnender Raum
Der Computer - mein Lebenswerk
Assembler II
Computer - Mein Lebenswerk
Der Computer - Mein Lebenswerk
Oğuz Atay
Oğuz Atay (1934-1977)

civil engineer, engineer, playwright

  • ITU School of Civil Engineering, TED Ankara College Foundation Schools

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Richard Weingardt
Richard Weingardt (1938-2013)

civil engineer, engineer, businessperson

  • University of Colorado, University of Colorado Denver

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Engineering Legends: Great American Civil Engineers
Richard Stallman
Richard Stallman (born 1953)

programmer, blogger, engineer, inventor, activist, documentary participant

  • Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Open sources
Debugging with GDB
Software libre para una sociedad libre
Free Software, Free Society
GNU Emacs manual
GNU make
Texinfo
Richard Stallman et la révolution du logiciel libre
Using and Porting GNU CC
Libres enfants du savoir numérique
Richard Stallman et la révolution du logiciel libre. Une biographie autorisée.
GNU Emacs Manual, For Version 21, 15th Edition
Using GCC
Gnu Make Ver 3.79
Gcc Command Options
Using and Porting the Gnu Compiler Collection Gcc
GNU Emacs Manual, For Version 21, 15th Edition
Gnu Reference
No Sir, no monopoly!
Bison Manual
GNU Emacs manual
Using & Porting Gnu Cc, Version 2.3
Gnu Tools Micellany
Using and Porting GNU CC for Version 2.8
Gcc Target Description Macros
Termcap Manual
Bison Manual for Version 1.875
GNU Emacs Manual Version 20
GNU Make
Bison: the YACC-compatible parser generator, November 1995, Bison version 1.25
The Bison Manual
GNU Emacs LISP Reference Manual
The termcap manual
GNU Emacs Lisp Reference Manual
Debugging With Gdb, V.4.16
GNU Make
The GNU C Library Reference Manual for Version 1.09 Beta
Jacques Cousteau
Jacques Cousteau (1910-1997)

zoologist, explorer, filmmaker, innovator, photographer, conservationist, oceanographer, inventor, Officer of the French Navy, marine biologist, engineer, biologist, film director, world traveler, producer

  • École Navale, Collège Stanislas de Paris

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L' homme, la pieuvre et l'orchidée
Challenges of the Sea
The silent world
The act of life
Invisible messages
The Living Sea
Quest for food
The Ocean World of Jacques Cousteau
The white caps
Three adventures: Galápagos, Titicaca, the Blue Holes
Reader's Digest Condensed Books--Spring 1953 Selections
Jacques Cousteau's Amazon journey
Octopus and squid, the soft intelligence
Provinces of the sea
The ocean world of Jacques Cousteau
The adventure of life
The Ocean Worls Of Jacques Cousteau The Adventure Of Life
The ocean world of Jacques Cousteau.
Dolphins
Instinct and intelligence
Guide to the sea and index
The silent world
The Cousteau almanac
Diving companions: sea lion, elephant seal, walrus
Nos amies les baleines
Jacques Cousteau's Calypso
Planète des baleines
Jacques Cousteau
Silent World
Attack and defense
The act of life
Vie et la mort des coraux
Window in the sea
The shark
Oasis in space
Captain Cousteau's underwater treasury
The whale
Riches of the sea
Oasis in space
Trésor englouti
The silent world
A sea of legends
Man re-enters the sea
Mammals in the sea
A Sea of Legend
World without sun
Three Adventures
Diving companions
Attack and defense
A Bill of Rights for Future Generations (Proceedings, No 34)
Quest for food
A la recherche de l'Atlantide
Les requins
Monde sans soleil
Diving for sunken treasure
Trois aventures de la Calypso
Dolphins
Attack and defense
Namibie
Le monde du silence
The Shark
The Ocean World of Jacques Cousteau
The ocean world of Jacques Cousteau
Islands at the edge
La planète des baleines
The art of motion
Sea lion, elephant seal, walrus
La mer de Cortez
Life and Death in a Coral Sea
Atlas of the Oceans
Whales
Pharaohs of the sea
Les surprises de la mer
The Art of Motion
Calypso
Un trésor englouti
Octopus and squid, the soft intelligence
Du grand large aux Grands Lacs
Par dix-huit mètres de fond
Octopus and Squid
L' île des esprits
The Underseas Discoveries of Jacques-Yves Cousteau
The sea in danger
The Cousteau United States Almanac of the Environment
The shark: splendid savage of the sea
Cap Horn a la turbovoile
Sea of Legends
Le monde sans soleil
Lost relics of the sea
The Cousteau Almanac of the Environment
The ocean world
The Living Sea
Les dauphins et la liberté
The ocean world of Jacques Costeau
Encyclopédie Cousteau : le monde des océans
La vie et la mort des caraux
Outer and inner space
Français, on a volé ta mer
Guide to the sea and Index
La mer blessée
Diving for sunken treasure
The shark
Saumons, castors et loutres
Oasis in Space (Abrams)
Les requins [par] Jacques-Yves Cousteau et Philippe Cousteau
Life at the Bottom of the World
Act of Life (Abrams)
La monde du silence
Le monde du silence
The silent world
Enciclopedia del mar
Life and death in a coral sea
The shark
Jonathan Bowen
Jonathan Bowen (born 1956)

computer scientist, engineer

  • Dragon School, University of Oxford

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David Brewster
David Brewster (1781-1868)

botanist, civil engineer, physicist, mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, inventor, biographer

  • University of Edinburgh

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The martyrs of science
Memoirs of the life, writings, and discoveries of Sir Isaac Newton
Letters on Natural Magic
The life of Sir Isaac Newton
Brewster and Wheatstone on vision
More Worlds Than One: The Creed of the Philosopher and the Hope of the Christian
The stereoscope; its history, theory, and construction
More worlds than one
The stereoscope
The kaleidoscope, its history, theory and construction with its application to the fine and useful arts
The history of free masonry
More Worlds Than One
A treatise on optics
More worlds than one
A treatise on magnetism
Letters on natural magic addressed to Sir Walter Scott, bart
More Worlds Than One
Letters on Natural Magic Addressed to Sir Walter Scott 1832
Nouveau manuel de magie naturelle et amusante
The martyrs of science
Observations on the mean temperature of the globe
Letters on natural magic, addressed to Sir Walter Scott
On the existence of two new fluids in the cavities of minerals, which are immiscible, and possess remarkable physical properties
Account of two remarkable rainbows
On a new analysis of solar light
On the refractive power of the two new fluids in minerals
The life of Sir Isaac Newton, the great philosopher, rev. and edited by W.T. Lynn
Observations on the relation between the optical structure and the chemical composition of the apophyllite and other minerals of the zeolite family
Description of a monochromatic lamp for microscopical and other purposes, &c
On the absorption of polarized light by doubly refracting crystals
Description of a new reflecting telescope
Notice respecting the existence of the new fluid in a large cavity in a specimen of sapphire
Observations on the optical structure of lithion-mica
A treatise on new philosophical instruments, for various purposes in the arts and sciences. With experiments on light and colours
On the connexion between the optical structure and chemical composition of minerals
On some remarkable affections of the retina
Description of a copper battle-axe found in Ratho Bog
On the optical properties and mechanical condition of amber
On the phenomena and laws of elliptic polarization
Memoirs of the life, writings and discoveries of Sir Isaac Newton
On a singular development of crystalline structure by phosphorescence
Letters on natural magic, addressed to Sir Walter Scott, Bart
On the formation of single microscopes from the lenses of fishes, etc
Account of the native hydrate of magnesia, discovered by Dr. Hibbert in Shetland
On the separation of epistilibite from heulandite, as demonstrated by optical characters
Notice respecting Professor Hansteen's chart of the variation and dip of the needle
More worlds than one
On a new series of periodical colours produced by the grooved surfaces of metallic and transparent bodies
Optics
A treatise on new philosophical instruments, for various purposes in the arts and sciences
Observations on the pyro-electricity of minerals
Observations on the structure and crystalline forms of haytorite
On the action of the second surfaces of transparent plates upon light
On the optical and general properties of tabasheer
A treatise on magnetism
On a new cleavage in calcareous spar
On some properties of light
On the phenomena of dichroism, or the absorption of common light by crystallised bodies
Description of gmelimite, a new mineral speries
On the mean temperature of the equator
Observations on the diurnal variation of the needle from 1775-1780, at Zwanenburg in Holland
Results of the thermometrical observations made at Leith Fort every hour of the day and night during the whole of the years 1824 and 1825
Account of comptonite, a new mineral from Vesuvius
Notice respecting a method of producing an intense heat from gas for various purposes in the arts
On the existence of a group of moveable crystals of carbonate of lime in a fluid cavity of quartz
On the phosphorescence of minerals
The life of Sir Isaac Newton, the great philosopher
Treatise on the kaleidoscope
Account of some single microscopes upon a new construction
More worlds than one
Account of a remarkable peculiarity in the structure of glaberite
Letters on natural magic
Description of withamite, a new mineral species found in Glenco
On a singular luminous property of wood &c. steeped in solutions of lime and magnesia
Reply to a note in the Annales de chimie by M. Arago, on the phosphorescence of fluor-spar
Description of two surfaces composed of siliceous filaments incapable of reflecting light
On the natural history and properties of tabasheer, the siliceous concretion in the bamboo
Account of the establishment of a scientific prize by the late Alexander Keith
Observations relative to the motions of the molecules of bodies
On the law of partial polarization of light by reflection
On the accomodation [sic] of the eye to different distances
On the principle of illumination for microscopic objects
Farther observations on levyne, a new mineral species
Notice respecting some new species of lead-ore from Wanlockhead and Lead Hills
Description of levyne, a new mineral species
Experiments on the structure and refractive power of the coats and humours of the human eye
Observations on vision through coloured glasses
On the reflection and decomposition of light at the separating surfaces of media of the same and of different refractive powers
On a new species of double refraction, accompanying a remarkable structure in analcime
On the construction of polyzonal lenses and mirrors of great magnitude
Account of an improvement on the nautical eye-tube
Description of a teinoscope for altering the lineal proportions of objects
Account of the new galvano-magnetic condenser invented by M. Poggendorff
On the laws of the polarization of light by refraction
Notice respecting a singular optical property of tabasheer
The Edinburgh encyclopædia
Account of meteorological observations made in North America by Dr. Holyoke and Prof. Dewey
Notice respecting the mean temperature of the equator
A treatise on new philosophical instruments for various purposes in the arts and sciences. With experiments on light and colours. By David Brewster
Description of a new double image micrometer for measuring the diameter of minute celestial objects
The kalaeidoscope
On a new optical and mineralogical structure, exhibited in certain specimens of apophyllite and other minerals
Description of a new reflecting microscope
Account of a new monochromatic lamp depending on the combustion of compressed gas
On the production of regular double refraction in the molecules of bodies by simple pressure
Reply to Mr. Brooke's observations on the connexion between the optical structure of minerals and their primitive forms
Observations on the visions of impressions on the retina
Account of a singular experiment depending on the polarization of light by reflexion
Description of oxahverite, a new mineral from oxahver, in Iceland
Notice respecting a singular structure in the diamond
Elements of Geometry and Trigonometry
The martyrs of science, or the lives of Galileo, Tycho Brahe, and Kepler
A treatise on optics
Optics
On the life-boat, the lightning conductor, and the lighthouse
Araz Yaguboghlu
Araz Yaguboghlu (born 1973)

journalist, engineer, poet, researcher, designer, Wikipedian

  • New Tashkent village secondary school named after Yasif Karimov, Azerbaijan Architecture and Construction University

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