INTRODUCTIONCHAPTER 1: MICROPROCESSORCHAPTER 2: SILICON WAFERS/CHIPSCHAPTER 3: TRANSISTORSCHAPTER 4: LOGIC GATESCHAPTER 5: BOOLEAN ALGEBRA AND STORING NUMBERSCHAPTER 6: BINARY CONVERSION OF TEXT, AUDIO, IMAGE AND VIDEOCHAPTER 7: DATA COMPRESSIONCHAPTER 8: REGISTERSCHAPTER 9: THE CONTROL UNITCHAPTER 10: ARITHMETIC LOGIC UNIT (ALU)CHAPTER 11: DATA PATHS AND MULTIPLEXERSCHAPTER 12: BIOS – Basic Input/Output SystemCHAPTER 13: ASSEMBLY LANGUAGECHAPTER...

This book examines ten materials-flint, clay, iron, gold, glass, cement, rubber, polyethylene, aluminum, and silicon-explaining how they formed, how we discovered them, why they have the properties they do, and how they have transformed our lives. Since the dawn of the Stone Age, we have shaped materials to meet our needs and, in turn, those materials have shaped us. The fracturing of flint created sharp, curved surfaces that gave our ancestors an...

Ruling Meng, the author, is an exceptional scientist from Texas Center for Superconductivity at University of Houston. This autobiography describes her colorful life in detail, with high-temperature superconductivity research as the through line from beginning to end. The book is divided in two parts. The first illustrates the fierce competition in high-temperature superconducting material research during the 80s and 90s, when many scientists worldwide...