Polish adventures in technology : successes great and small / Boleslaw Orlowski; translated by Dominika Palmowska
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Orlowski ha compilado en esta publicación algunos de sus hallazgos más importantes sobre la participación de Polonia en el campo de la tecnología. El libro es un intento de popularizar algunos ejemplos olvidados de la contribución de Polonia a la ciencia y la tecnología del mundo.
HOW THIS BOOK CAME INTO BEING
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER I. TECHNICAL DEVELOPMENT AND THE POLISH CAUSE - A GLANCE AT THE HISTORY OF POLAND AND ITS PEOPLE FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER
CHAPTER II: PRE-PARTITION POLAND - PLAYING CATCH UP: Stanislaw grzpski and his work; The Sigismund II Augustus Bridge in Warsaw; Polish participation in the balloon craze
CHAPTER III: THE PARTITIONS ERA: THE NATIONAL SCENE: A light in the darkness: the Warsaw Society of Friends of Sciences; Stanislaw Staszic - ideologist and driving force benhind Poland's efforts to keep peace with the changing world; The Augustow Canal - an investment dictated by economic needs under the prevailing political conditions; Antoni Krauz - forgotten pioneer of the exact sciences; Stanislaw Wysocki - Creator of the Warsaw-Vienna Railway; The Lvov Centre
CHAPTER IV: THE PARTITION ERA: THE INTERNATIONAL SCENE: IMPORTANT FACTS AND UNDERTAKINGS: The motivating factors informing the pursuit of a career in engineering by Polish émigrés of the nineteenth century; The Central Trans-Andean Railway built bu Ernest Malinowski; Edward Habich's Polytechnic in Lima; Tadeusz Oksza-Orzechowski and his submarine telegraphic cable along the western coast of Africa; Polish contribution to the construction of the Trans-Siberian Railway
ENGINEERS: Tomasz Franciszek Bartmanski (1797-1880); Aleksander Józef Waligórski (1802-73); Aleksander Stryjénski (1804-75); Stanislaw Kierbedz Snr (1810-99); Józef Konrad Chelmicki (1813-90); Kazimierz Gzowski (1813-98); Karol Brzozowski (1821-1904); Stanislaw Janicki (1836-88); Zygmunt Mineyko (1840-1925); Wladyslaw Kluger (1849-84); Feliks Jasinski (1856-99); Aleksander Wasiutynski (1859-1944); Rudolf Modrzejewski (1861-1940); Gabriel Narutowicz (1865-1922); Luzwik Bryla (1886-1943); Mieczyslaw Bekker (1950-89)
INVENTORS: Henryk Dembinski (1791-1864); Jan Józef Baranowski (1805-88); Ignacy Lukasiewicz (1822-82); Stefan Drzewiecki (1844-1938); Ignacy Móscicki (1867-1946); Jan Szczepanik (1872-1926); Kazimierz Prószynski (1875-1945); Jan Czochralski (1885-1953); Tadeusz Sendzimir (1894-1989); Stefan Tyszkiewicz (1894-1976)
CHAPTER V: TWENTY YEARS OF INDEPENDENCE: Readiness of the newly resurrected Polish state to meet the challenges of modernity - a review of gains and losses; The phenomenon that was the Polish aviation industry; Tadeusz Wenda - the forgotten creator of Gdynia; Eugeniusz Kwiatkowski, the great organiser of modernity; The Central Industrial District, a project wich was to rescue the Second Republic of Poland
CHAPTER VI: THE FORGOTTEN CONTRIBUTION OF POLISH INVENTORS TO THE VICTORY OF THE ALLIED FORCES DURING WORLD WAR II
APPENDIX
INDEX
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Índice onomástico
Bibliografía: p. 286-293
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| Fundación Juanelo Turriano | 8394 | 41/405 |
Orlowski ha compilado en esta publicación algunos de sus hallazgos más importantes sobre la participación de Polonia en el campo de la tecnología. El libro es un intento de popularizar algunos ejemplos olvidados de la contribución de Polonia a la ciencia y la tecnología del mundo.
HOW THIS BOOK CAME INTO BEING
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER I. TECHNICAL DEVELOPMENT AND THE POLISH CAUSE - A GLANCE AT THE HISTORY OF POLAND AND ITS PEOPLE FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER
CHAPTER II: PRE-PARTITION POLAND - PLAYING CATCH UP: Stanislaw grzpski and his work; The Sigismund II Augustus Bridge in Warsaw; Polish participation in the balloon craze
CHAPTER III: THE PARTITIONS ERA: THE NATIONAL SCENE: A light in the darkness: the Warsaw Society of Friends of Sciences; Stanislaw Staszic - ideologist and driving force benhind Poland's efforts to keep peace with the changing world; The Augustow Canal - an investment dictated by economic needs under the prevailing political conditions; Antoni Krauz - forgotten pioneer of the exact sciences; Stanislaw Wysocki - Creator of the Warsaw-Vienna Railway; The Lvov Centre
CHAPTER IV: THE PARTITION ERA: THE INTERNATIONAL SCENE: IMPORTANT FACTS AND UNDERTAKINGS: The motivating factors informing the pursuit of a career in engineering by Polish émigrés of the nineteenth century; The Central Trans-Andean Railway built bu Ernest Malinowski; Edward Habich's Polytechnic in Lima; Tadeusz Oksza-Orzechowski and his submarine telegraphic cable along the western coast of Africa; Polish contribution to the construction of the Trans-Siberian Railway
ENGINEERS: Tomasz Franciszek Bartmanski (1797-1880); Aleksander Józef Waligórski (1802-73); Aleksander Stryjénski (1804-75); Stanislaw Kierbedz Snr (1810-99); Józef Konrad Chelmicki (1813-90); Kazimierz Gzowski (1813-98); Karol Brzozowski (1821-1904); Stanislaw Janicki (1836-88); Zygmunt Mineyko (1840-1925); Wladyslaw Kluger (1849-84); Feliks Jasinski (1856-99); Aleksander Wasiutynski (1859-1944); Rudolf Modrzejewski (1861-1940); Gabriel Narutowicz (1865-1922); Luzwik Bryla (1886-1943); Mieczyslaw Bekker (1950-89)
INVENTORS: Henryk Dembinski (1791-1864); Jan Józef Baranowski (1805-88); Ignacy Lukasiewicz (1822-82); Stefan Drzewiecki (1844-1938); Ignacy Móscicki (1867-1946); Jan Szczepanik (1872-1926); Kazimierz Prószynski (1875-1945); Jan Czochralski (1885-1953); Tadeusz Sendzimir (1894-1989); Stefan Tyszkiewicz (1894-1976)
CHAPTER V: TWENTY YEARS OF INDEPENDENCE: Readiness of the newly resurrected Polish state to meet the challenges of modernity - a review of gains and losses; The phenomenon that was the Polish aviation industry; Tadeusz Wenda - the forgotten creator of Gdynia; Eugeniusz Kwiatkowski, the great organiser of modernity; The Central Industrial District, a project wich was to rescue the Second Republic of Poland
CHAPTER VI: THE FORGOTTEN CONTRIBUTION OF POLISH INVENTORS TO THE VICTORY OF THE ALLIED FORCES DURING WORLD WAR II
APPENDIX
INDEX
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Índice onomástico
Bibliografía: p. 286-293
