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The Electronics Revolution Inventing the Future / by Williams, J.B

Table of Contents: “…1 Introduction -- 2 Missed opportunities: The beginnings of electronics -- 3 From Wireless to Radio -- 4 Seeing by electricity - Development of Television -- 5 Seeing a hundred miles - Radar -- 6 The Box - Television takes over -- 7 Spinning discs - Recorded music -- 8 The crystal triode - The transistor -- 9 Pop Music - Youth culture in 1950s and 60s -- 10 From People to Machines - The Rise of Computers -- 11 Chips into everything - Integrated Circuits -- 12 From signboards to screens - Displays -- 13 Distributing time - Clocks and watches -- 14 From Desktop to Pocket - Calculators -- 15 Shrinking computers - microprocessors -- 16 Instant cooking - Microwave ovens -- 17 Essentials or toys - Home computers -- 18 Computers take over the Workplace -- 19 From Clerks to Xerography - Copiers -- 20 Shrinking the World - Communication satellites -- 21 Personal communicators - Mobile phones -- 22 Going online- The Internet -- 23 Glass to the rescue - Fibre optics -- 24 Towards virtual money - Cards, Atms and PoS -- 25 Saving TV programs - Video Recording -- 26 Electronics invades photography - Digital Cameras -- 27 Seeing inside the body - electronics aids medicine -- 28 Knowing where you are - GPS -- 29 The Electronics Revolution -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.…”
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Computational Radiology for Orthopaedic Interventions

Table of Contents: “…Preface -- Statistical Shape Modeling of Musculoskeletal Structures and Its Applications, by Hans Lamecker, Stefan Zachow -- Automated 3D Lumbar Intervertebral Disc Segmentation from MRI Data Sets, by Xiao Dong and Guoyan Zheng -- Registration for Orthopaedic Interventions, by Ziv Yaniv -- 3D Augmented Reality Based Orthopaedic Interventions, by Xinran Zhang, Zhencheng Fan, Junchen Wang  and Hongen Liao -- Fully Automatic Segmentation of Hip CT Images, by Chengwen Chu, Junjie Bai, Xiaodong Wu, and Guoyan Zheng -- Quantification of Implant Osseointegration by means of a Reconstruction Algorithm on Micro-computed Tomography Images, by R. …”
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The Ascent of GIM, the Global Intelligent Machine A History of Production and Information Machines / by Koetsier, Teun

Table of Contents: “…Preface -- 1 Introduction -- The Global Intelligent Machine -- Cultural evolution -- Production technology and information technology -- 2 The Rise of Homo Sapiens -- Animals using production tools -- Monkeys and apes using production tools -- Information tools in the animal world: clues, signs and signals -- Communicating honey bees -- Communication among monkeys and apes -- From the hairpin ancestor to Homo sapiens -- Olduwan technology -- The adze makers of Langda -- Language as an information tool -- The control of fire -- The Stone Age Revolution -- Information tools -- Whistle languages -- Talking drums -- The Ishango bone -- Orientation in space, maps in the Pacific -- 3 Tools in the Early Agricultural Empires -- Economic surplus -- Agriculture -- The wheel -- Monumental architecture -- Complete writing -- Towards the alphabet -- Mathematics -- Sundials and water clocks -- 4 The Axial Age and the Birth of Western Science -- The Axial Age -- The rise of abstract symbolic thought in China and India -- Oral versus written thought -- Aristotle's Logic, a New Information Tool -- Knowledge-how versus knowledge-that -- Deductive science -- The birth of the theory of machines -- The wedge and the pulleys -- Archimedes -- The invention of the screw -- Heron's Mechanics -- Combinations of simple machines -- Difficulties in understanding the wedge and the inclined plane -- 5 Machines in Classical Antiquity -- The invention of artillery -- Production machines in Vitruvius' Ten Books on Architecture -- The Phaistos disc -- The abacus -- Water clocks and sundials -- The Armillary Sphere -- The anaphoric clock -- The astrolabe -- The mystery of the Antikythera mechanism -- The front dial -- The upper back dial -- The pin and slot mechanism -- The hodometer -- Automata -- 6 The Middle Ages -- Marco Polo -- Textile machines -- Military technology -- Metal technology -- Movable type printing -- The hodometer and Su Sung's clock -- Automata -- Chinese influence in the West -- The Golden Age of Islamic Science -- Islamic culture, the information machines of the three Banu Musa -- Al-Jazari's production machines -- Al-Muradi -- The rise of the West -- Jordanus -- The Vision of Ramon Llull -- The invention of the printing press -- Llull's influence -- A new information machine: the mechanical clock -- 7 The Renaissance and the Scientific Revolution -- The impact of the printing press -- Da Vinci and the others -- Parachute, tank and machine gun -- Da Vinci as an engineer -- Da Vinci's fame -- Theaters of machines -- Exterior ballistics -- Del Monte and simple machines -- Galilei and simple machines -- The Archimedean screw pump -- Astronomy -- Galilei's Discorsi -- A remarkable Flemish engineer: Simon Stevin -- There is more -- The dream of a mathesis universalis -- Calculators -- Scepticism -- 8 The First Wave of Industrial Revolution: Cotton Textiles and Pig Iron -- The background -- The role of the Scientific Revolution -- A macroeconomic view of the Industrial Revolution -- The Malthusian trap -- The escape -- One or more Industrial Revolutions? …”
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