History of engineering and technology

Between the catastrophic flood of the Tiber River in 1557 and the death of the "e;engineering pope"e; Sixtus V in 1590, the city of Rome was transformed by intense activity involving building construction and engineering projects of all kinds.

When viewed through a political lens, the act of defining terms in natural language arguably transforms knowledge into values.

This book provides a comprehensive review of China's Internet development in the past 23 years since the country's first access to the Internet, especially since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 7th International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Modeling and Using Context, CONTEXT 2011, held in Karlsruhe, Germany in September 2011.

On a cold January morning in 1986, NASA launched the Space Shuttle Challenger, despite warnings against doing so by many individuals, including Allan McDonald.

A transnational approach to understanding and analyzing knowledge circulation.

This book systematically summarizes China Internet development over the past 25 years, highlighting its strong impact on China's economy and society, and discussing the Chinese people's transition from beneficiaries and participants to builders, contributors and joint maintainers of cyberspace development.

Queer Techn offers an intimate portrait of the practices, embodied knowledge, desires, and friendships that animate the technical innovation of early digital computing.

This book explores how a long-term innovation can take place based on historical analyses of the development of reverse osmosis (RO) membrane from the early 1950s to the mid-2010s.

A panoramic global history of the nineteenth centuryA monumental history of the nineteenth century, The Transformation of the World offers a panoramic and multifaceted portrait of a world in transition.

Unless you are a specialist or watch a lot of obscure YouTube videos you have probably never heard of He II or superfluid helium.

Before 1930, the domestic market for electrical appliances was segmented, but New Deal policies and programs created a true mass market, reshaping the electrical and housing markets and guiding them toward mandated social goals.

This book discusses technological developments by distinguished figures in the history of MMS (mechanism and machine science).

During the early years of World War II, American ships crossing the Atlantic with oil and supplies were virtually defenseless against German U-boats.

Woodworking has been one of the most important technologies from the earliest times.

The present collection of essays are published in honor of the distinguished historian of mathematics Professor Emeritus Jesper Lutzen.

The world is undergoing a profound set of digital disruptions that are changing the nature of how governments counter dissent and assert control over their countries.

Limiting Outer Space propels the historicization of outer space by focusing on the Post-Apollo period.

History of Computing: Learning from the Past Why is the history of computing important?

This book provides a detailed examination of the questions that preoccupied British alienists throughout the second half of the nineteenth century.

Challenging the notion that francophone literature generally valorizes a traditional, natural mode of being over a scientific, modern one, Inter-tech(s) proposes a new understanding of the relationship between France and its former colonies in Africa and the Caribbean by exploring how various postindependence authors depict technology as a mediator between them.

This book is about how electricity has profoundly changed the way we live, work, and play.

Britain's Canals is a charming and insightful exploration into the amazing architecture and engineering wonders that surround Britain's inland waterways from the awe-inspiring 30-lock flight on the Worcester and Birmingham Canal, to the delightful chocolate-box lock-keepers' cottages that line the cut of every canal, to masterpieces such as the 18-arch Pontcysyllte aqueduct, the highest aqueduct in the world, to beautiful bridges, grand company buildings, the social hubs that were, and still are, canal-side pubs, plus so much more.

In  the concluding chapters of this book the author introduces GIM, the Global Intelligent Machine.

In The Senses of Modernism, Sara Danius develops a radically new theoretical and historical understanding of high modernism.

Since the discovery of electromagnetic waves less than 150 years ago, the application of wireless communications technology has not only revolutionized our daily lives, but also fundamentally changed the course of world history.

"e;Of all the men who attacked the flying problem in the 19th century, Otto Lilienthal was easily the most important.

This volume provides an overview of current research in the history of Italian technology in the long run, from the early Middle Ages to the 20th century.

Since well before the debates about global warming and climate change, images have played an important part in bringing changes in nature and the environment to the attention of the general public.

Exploring how scholars use digital resources to reconstruct the 19th century, this volume probes key issues in the intersection of digital humanities and history.

In September 1969, several months after the Apollo 11 lunar landing, President Richard M.

This is a volume of chapters on the historical study of information, computing, and society written by seven of the most senior, distinguished members of the History of Computing field.

Examines the historical development of the conceptual design process of the airplane through six case studies.

We are always hearing about the Next Big Thing.

The years between roughly 1760 and 1810, a period stretching from the rise of Joseph Haydn's career to the height of Ludwig van Beethoven's, are often viewed as a golden age for musical culture, when audiences started to revel in the sounds of the concert hall.

This book tells the inside story of Germany's first contributions to space research by experiments with artificial plasma clouds in space.

How, beginning in the mid 1960s, the US semiconductor industry helped shape changes in American science, including a new orientation to the short-term and the commercial.

Push a button and turn on the television; tap a button and get a ride; click a button and "e;like"e; something.

This book is a must-read for all those interested in the evolution of airplanes.

Militarizing Outer Space explores the dystopian and destructive dimensions of the Space Age and challenges conventional narratives of a bipolar Cold War rivalry.

Die wichtigsten Begriffe zu Internet, Cyber-Risiken, IT-Sicherheit und Datenschutz.

This book provides a detailed examination of the questions that preoccupied British alienists throughout the second half of the nineteenth century.

For generations, fans and critics have characterized classic American radio drama as a "e;theater of the mind.

Epidemic cinema remains an enduring genre of contemporary film, ranging from medical dramas to post-apocalyptic thrillers.

Based on the past 30-years' research on the technical and cultural values of China's Grand Canal, this book, based on interdisciplinary research, studies the natural and social background of the evolution and development of different sections of the Grand Canal in different historical periods, as well as the interrelations between the Grand Canal and the Chinese politics, economics, and culture.

This engaging work provides a concise introduction to the exciting world of computing, encompassing the theory, technology, history, and societal impact of computer software and computing devices.