The Limit : Engineering on the Boundaries of Science

Dase, Mike

ISBN 10: 056337117X ISBN 13: 9780563371175

Published by BBC Book Publishing, London, 1995

Language: English

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Binding clean; jacket clean with very little wear to extremities; textblock clean and tight; 191 pp. including index. Size: Quarto.

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Title

The Limit : Engineering on the Boundaries of Science

Publisher

BBC Book Publishing, London

Publication Date

1995

Language

English

ISBN 10

056337117X

ISBN 13

9780563371175

Binding

Cloth

Illustrator

Color Photographs

Edition

First Edition.

Condition

Near Fine

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Very Good (in mylar)

Book Type

Hardcover

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Engineering

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Exploring the limits faced by engineers as they struggle to go further with everything they build, this book takes as its basis some of the world's most ambitious modern projects. These include the plans of Sir Norman Foster and Kazo Shimizu to build a tower block almost a kilometre high; Hugh Doherty's Jubilee Line extension tunnel; Jean-Jacques Huber's 1000-passenger airbus; Stephen Gorevan's challenging attempt to design a vehicle that can land on and analyze a comet; Niels Gimsing's record-breaking suspension bridge in Denmark; and Peter Cochrane's plans for a fibre-optic network to encircle the earth.

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