Assembled from iron plates like a piece of flatpack furniture, the Franklin stove became one of the era's most iconic consumer products, spreading from Pennsylvania to England, Italy, and beyond. It was more than just a material object, however--it was also a hypothesis. Franklin was proposing that, armed with science, he could invent his way out of a climate crisis: a period of global cooling known as the Little Ice Age, when unusually bitter winters sometimes brought life to a standstill.

Uploaded June 2025

This volume explores parallels and differences between learning and teaching in the violin making schools in different European countries. In order to realize this work, the cooperation of a violin maker, a cultural anthropologist and two photographers proves to be as necessary as fruitful, since the implicit knowledge of the craftsmanship needs to be understood on the levels of observation, experience and dialogue against a culture-analytical background.

Uploaded June 2025

A History of Homebuilders from Early Modern to Modern Times provides a diachronic account of homebuilders' more than 500 years history in the Anglosphere nations of the U.S., Britain, Canada, and Australia. The comparative absence of individual homebuilders' histories in the literature, despite builders' importance in providing our dwellings and over 70% of our entire urban built environments, is surprising.

Uploaded June 2025

This book is a basic introduction to water distribution systems, including definition of its common elements, modelling theory, basic planning, operational and management issues, as well as some advanced topics including leakage management, optimal design, asset planning and management, etc.

Uploaded June 2025

This basic book was prepared in support of a low-level civil engineering course the author taught at the university for years. The idea is that construction projects require the participation of engineers, surveyors, and contractors. Whether it is a building, a bridge or a pipeline, customers have the expectation that the result is going to be precisely at the right location, orientation, slope or level, and elevation.

Uploaded June 2025

Structural Design of Buildings: Holistic Design is the essential reference for all structural engineers involved in the design of buildings and other structures. The book forms part of the Structural Design of Buildings series and takes a project-oriented approach, covering key issues that design professionals face in the structural design process. It introduces the concepts and principles involved in holistic structural design considerations of a building, including multi-storey and tall buildings.

Uploaded June 2025

Features the latest data and computational modeling techniques and clearly explains cutting-edge methods, processes, and technologies. You will get more than 80 dependable tables and graphs, sample equations, and real-world examples. This single source for on-the-job hydraulic engineering information will save time and ensure accuracy in performing hydraulic calculations.

Uploaded June 2025

This is the first volume of a two-volume guide to designing, conducting and interpreting laboratory and field experiments in a broad range of topics associated with hydraulic engineering. Specific guidance is provided on methods and instruments currently used in experimental hydraulics, with emphasis on new and emerging measurement technologies and methods of analysis. Additionally, this book offers a concise outline of essential background theory, underscoring the intrinsic connection between theory and experiments.

Uploaded June 2025

The environment of a university – what we term a campus – is a place with special resonance. They have long been the setting for some of history's most exciting experiments in the design of the built environment. Christopher Wren at Cambridge, Le Corbusier at Harvard, and Norman Foster at the Free University Berlin: the calibre of practitioners who have shaped the physical realm of academia is superlative.

Uploaded June 2025

This dissertation presents a concept for the accounting of electricity-dependent companies. This concept addresses known weaknesses of the current accounting approach according to the Greenhouse Gas Protocol. Among other things, the concept includes a higher temporal resolution, consideration of additionality in the evaluation of electricity procurement options, and the integration of various calculation methods. Furthermore, the implementation of the concept and its application to three case studies are presented.

Uploaded March 2025