Author(s): Anatoly Markusha
Publisher: Mir Publishers
Year: 1987
Language: English
City: Moscow
Front Cover
Title Page
CONTENTS
About This Book and Its Author
1
Three "Notches" for My Memory
An Unexpected, Though Quite Relevant, Digression
A Definition from an Old Dictionary
A Little Something from the Biography of a Most Useful Machine
For Those Who Are Not Convinced
Something to Think About, Problems to Solve
Some Useful Hints
Dates on the Calendar
2
Something Quite Clear, and Something Not So Clear
The Indispensable Language
In Praise of Our Oldest Teacher
Something to Think About, Problems to Solve
Some Useful Hints
Dates on the Calendar
3
Two Unforgettable Encounters
And If We Come Down to Earth?
Something to Think About, Problems to Solve
Some Useful Hints
4
A Few Particulars About an Engineer's Character
Something to Think About, Problems to Solve
Some Useful Hints
5
What Do You Know About Charles Goodyear?
How to Test Yourself, How Not to Make a Mistake?
The Melancholy Boy with the Large Album
Something to Think About, Problems to Solve (Answers)
Some Useful Hints
Dates on the Calendar
6
The Uninvited Sequel to an Unexpected Meeting
A Senseof Time,an Ability to Foresee, and a Readiness to Fight
Something to Think About, Problems to Solve (Answers)
Some Useful Hints
Dates on the Calendar
7
A Matter of Getting the Job Done. Anywhere, Any Time. On Your Own, or with Others
It Won't Get You a Monument, but ...
The Last of the Mohicans
If You Work at It, then Everything's Possible
Something to Think About, Problems to Solve (Answers)
Some Useful Hints
Dates on the Calendar
When Engineers Get Together
A Short Glossary of Technical Terms
Back Cover
