History of engineering and technology

This book highlights the close interactions between plants, plant knowledge, politics, and social life in Padua during the age of revolution.

This book provides a roadmap for those embarking on a career in STEM, whether in the research or industry realms.

This stimulating textbook presents a broad and accessible guide to the fundamentals of discrete mathematics, highlighting how the techniques may be applied to various exciting areas in computing.

This book describes the life and times of fifty-three great British scientists and engineers - male and female inventive geniuses who changed the world, improving the lives of mankind, and propelling humanity forward.

This book evaluates the importance of various historical sources and discusses their role in the creation and transmission of scientific knowledge.

This book provides a technological history of modern India, in particular the Nehruvian development in the context of the Cold War.

This book aims to make Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) accessible to the modern reader by refashioning the great scientist's masterpiece "e;Discourses and Mathematical Demonstrations Relating to Two New Sciences"e; in today's language.

Eminent physicist and economist, Robert Ayres, examines the history of technology as a change agent in society, focusing on societal roots rather than technology as an autonomous, self-perpetuating phenomenon.

Automating Linguistics offers an in-depth study of the history of the mathematisation and automation of the sciences of language.

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

This lively and fascinating text traces the key developments in computation - from 3000 B.

Angelo Secchi was a key figure in 19th century science.

In this book the authors aim to endow the reader with an operational, conceptual, and methodological understanding of the discrete mathematics that can be used to study, understand, and perform computing.

In his book, pending between history and sociology, on engineers in thirteen countries of the western part of Europe, Professor Rolf Torstendahl approaches the development from around 1850 up to the present situation from different angles.

This book documents the process of transformation from natural philosophy, which was considered the most important of the sciences until the early modern era, into modern disciplines such as mathematics, physics, natural history, chemistry, medicine and engineering.

The book highlights women's contributions to science, which have often been marginalized and overlooked throughout history.

This Palgrave Pivot analyzes how six countries in Central America-Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama-connected to and through computer networks such as UUCP, BITNET and the Internet from the 80s to the year 2000.

This book is a unique attempt to capture the growing societal experience of living in an age unlike anything the world has ever seen.

Is it possible to design robots and other machines that can reproduce and evolve?

This book illuminates what engineering is and how it relates to other disciplines such as art, architecture, law,  economics, science, technology, and even religion.

This edited volume charts the history of celestial navigation over the course of five centuries.

This stimulating text/reference presents a philosophical exploration of the conceptual foundations of deep learning, presenting enlightening perspectives that encompass such diverse disciplines as computer science, mathematics, logic, psychology, and cognitive science.

This book introduces the term of TechnoScienceSociety to focus on the ongoing technological reconfigurations of science and society.

This book provides a compact history of gears, by summarizing the main stages of their development and the corresponding gradual acquisition of engineering expertise, from the antiquity to the Renaissance and the twentieth century.

This book tells the story of government-sponsored wiretapping in Britain and the United States from the rise of telephony in the 1870s until the terrorist attacks of 9/11.

This stimulating text/reference presents a philosophical exploration of the conceptual foundations of deep learning, presenting enlightening perspectives that encompass such diverse disciplines as computer science, mathematics, logic, psychology, and cognitive science.

This book illuminates what engineering is and how it relates to other disciplines such as art, architecture, law,  economics, science, technology, and even religion.

This book recounts the adventures of Louis Pouzin who invented one of the core elements for transmitting data over today's Internet, the datagram.

This volume approaches the history of water in the Iberian Peninsula in a novel way, by linking it to the ongoing international debate on water crisis and solutions to overcome the lack of water in the Mediterranean.

This book introduces a 'Big History' perspective to understand the acceleration of social, technological and economic trends towards a near-term singularity, marking a radical turning point in the evolution of our planet.

In the second half of the twentieth century, new sounds began to reverberate across the United States.

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

Since ancient times, humans have been engaged in a continual quest to find meaning in and make sense of sights and events in the night sky.

This book develops a systematic approach to the role of failure in innovation, using the laboratory notebooks of America's most successful inventor, Thomas Edison.

This book follows the development of research on the origin of the Moon from the late 18th century to the present.

This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the IFIP WG 9.

In the early twentieth century, the magic of radio was new, revolutionary, and poorly understood.

The book tells the unique story of WEIZAC, an early computer built by a "e;new nation"e; in the early 1950s.

Our natural world has been irretrievably altered by humans, for humans.

This text presents an historical examination of political fact-checking, highlighting how this is part of a larger phenomenon of online scrutiny that manifests itself in multiple forms.

This book introduces recent global advances and innovations in industry integrated engineering and computing education to academics, program managers, department heads, and deans, and shares with readers a critical perspective on future potentials in industry integrated engineering education.

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.

This book gathers, and makes available in English, with new introductions, previously out of print or otherwise difficult to access articles by Fr Roberto Busa S.

This unique book presents the story of the pioneering manufacturing company Ferranti Ltd.

This book provides a reinterpretation of early modern clock and watch dials on the basis of use.

A true revolution has rocked the space industry, as Silicon Valley and new startup companies around the world have shaken up the status quo.

This book outlines the scientific career of Arto Salomaa, a pioneer in theoretical computer science and mathematics.

July 2019 marks 50 years since Neil Armstrong took his famous first steps on the surface of the Moon.

This edited volume discusses scientific and technological aspects of the history of the oil and gas industry in national and international contexts.

This is the remarkable story of an entrepreneurial firm that helped to create the petrochemical industry as we know it today.