Space exploration A history in 100 objects
Book - 2019
"From Galileo's telescope to the International Space Station - a stunningly photo-filled tour through the milestones of space exploration, examining iconic objects from Sputnik to Skylab and their effect on what we know and how we think about space."--
Saved in:
- Subjects
- Published
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New York :
The Experiment
[2019]
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Physical Description
- 205 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN
- 9781615196142
- Foreword by John Mather; Introduction; The Blombos Ochre Drawing; The Abri Blanchard Bone Plaque; The Egyptian Star Clock; The Nebra Sky Disk; The Venus Tablet of Ammisaduqa; The Star Charts of Senenmut; The Merkhet; The Nimrud Lens; The Greek Armillary Sphere; The Diopter; Antikythera Mechanism; Hipparchus's Star Atlas; The Astrolabe; The Dunhuang Star Atlas; Al-Khwārizmī's Algebra Textbook; The Dresden Codex; The Chaco Canyon Sun Dagger; Giovanni de' Dondi's Astrarium; The Big Horn Medicine Wheel; The Ensisheim Stone; De Revolutionibus; Tycho's Mural Quadrant; Galileo's Telescope; The Slide Rule; The Eyepiece Micrometer; The Clock Drive; The Meridian Circle; The Skidi Pawnee Star Chart; Smoked-Glass Sun Viewing; The Gyroscope; The Electric Battery; Pilâtre de Rozier and d'Arlandes's Balloon; William Herschel's Forty-Foot Telescope; The Spectroscope; The Daguerreotype Camera; The Solar Panel; The Leviathan of Parsonstown; Crookes Tube; The Triode Vacuum Tube; The Ion Rocket Engine; The Hooker Telescope; Robert Goddard's Rocket; The Van de Graaff Generator; The Coronagraph; Jansky's Merry-Go-Round Radio Telescope; The V-2 Rocket; ENIAC; Colossus Mark 2; The Radio Interferometer; The Heat Shield; The Integrated Circuit; The Atomic Clock; Space Fasteners; The Hydrogen Line Radio Telescope; The X-Ray Imaging Telescope; The Hydrogen Bomb; The Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator; The Nuclear Rocket Engine; Sputnik; Vanguard 1; Luna 3; The Endless Loop Magnetic Tape Recorder; The Laser; Space Food; The Space Suit; Syncom 2 (and 3); The Vidicon Camera; The Space Blanket; The Handheld Maneuvering Unit; Apollo 1 Block I Hatch; The Interface Message Processor; The Hasselblad Camera; Apollo 11 Moon Rocks; The CCD Imager; The Lunar Laser Ranging RetroReflector; The Apollo Lunar Television Camera; The Homestake Gold Mine Neutrino Detector; Lunokhod 1; The Skylab Exercise Bike; The Laser Geodynamics Satellite (LAGEOS); Smoot's Differential Microwave Radiometer; The Viking Remote-Controlled Sampling Arm; The"Rubber Mirror."; The Multi-Fiber Spectrograph; The Venera Landers; The Compromised Challenger O-Rings; COSTAR; CMOS Sensors; The Allan Hills Meteorite; Sojourner; Gravity Probe B; LIDAR; The Large Hadron Collider; The Kepler Space Telescope; Curiosity Rover; Mangalyaan-the Mars Orbiter Mission; A 3-D Printed Ratchet Wrench; The LIGO Gravitational-Wave Interferometer; The Tesla Roadster; The Event Horizon Telescope.