History of engineering and technology

Using the extensive papers of the firm Charles Robin and Company of Jersey and Paspebiac, and the records of the Jersey mercantile establishment, Rosemary Ommer presents a detailed case study of commodity trade, uncovering the development, function, and strengths and weaknesses of all aspects of the fishery.

Weaving together chapters on imperial Japan's wartime mobilization, Asia's first wave of postwar decolonization, and Cold War geopolitical conflict in the region, Engineering Asia seeks to demonstrate how Asia's present prosperity did not arise from a so-called 'economic miracle' but from the violent and dynamic events of the 20th century.

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.

Interactions between business, technological, public policy, and organization processes are changing the way modern economies work.

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

A Next Big Idea Club "e;Must Read"e; for December 2023As all aspects of our social and informational lives increasingly migrate online, the line between what is "e;real"e; and what is digitally fabricated grows ever thinner and that fake content has undeniable real-world consequences.

From a low road bridge crossing the Fosse Way near Trewsbury Mead to the towering Queen Elizabeth Bridge linking Kent to Essex, the River Thames is crossed by over 200 bridges, some simple wooden or stonework structures, others magnificent architectural constructions.

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

This book provides an overview of American aviation from 1903 to 1941, covering major developments in aviation technology.

The science of cryptology is made up of two halves.

A collection of papers which examine the dependency of economic progress on technological developments progressing from a discussion of the forces affecting the process of technical change to empirical studies of technical change in different industries and firms.

This book examines how compression can be understood not only as a digital process enacted through computing, but as a wider economic and political phenomenon that impacts on the ecology of waste, diversity and social inclusivity.

A Handheld History is a unique celebration of portable platforms and their iconic games.

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.

Water is fundamental to human life, and the ways in which a society uses it can tell us a great deal about a people.

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.

As the first book about software culture, this book discusses software culture from three perspectives including historical perspective, the classification of software and software applications.

Die Beschaffung und Verarbeitung von Informationen ist eine zentrale Aufgabe eines jeden Geheimdienstes.

The most prolific inventor in American history, Thomas Edison played a major role in creating industries that have altered life around the globe: electric light and power, recorded sound and motion pictures.

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In the late 19th century, bicyling and motoring offered new ways for a hardy minority to travel.

Blackouts—whether they result from military planning, network failure, human error, or terrorism—offer snapshots of electricity''s increasingly central role in American society.

The aim of the book is to report the recent research development of ancient glass and glazing technology and the historical-cultural exchange of the East and West along the Silk and Steppe Roads.

What made it possible for the human species to conquer the world, build a global digital economy, and still want more?

This book presents a critical examination of conversations between engineering, social sciences, and the humanities asking whether their conversations have come of age.

The advent of recombinant DNA technology in the 1970s was a key moment in the history of both biotechnology and the commercialization of academic research.

An underpinning force in Singapore's remarkable 50-year transformation into a sophisticated world-class city, engineering has contributed significantly to the nation's economic, infrastructural and social developments.

Water may seem innocuous, but as a universal necessity, it inevitably intersects with politics when it comes to acquisition, control, and associated technologies.

The Web has been with us now for almost 25 years.

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

The annual collections in the History of Technology series look at the history of technological discovery and change, exploring the relationship of technology to other aspects of life and showing how technological development is affected by the society in which it occurred.

In this book, Tim Jenkins examines the factory worker poisonings and suspect government procurement procedures that resulted in Allied success in the air during First World War.

Fifty years after the first experiments in computational art, international interest in the history of this subject remains strong and at the same time almost uncovered.

A thoughtful look at our history of innovation, the problems with the patent system, and the prospects for America’s future.

Time capsules offer unexpected insights into how people view their own time, place, and culture, as well as their duties to future generations.

A study of the causes and consequences of industrial innovation through the inventions of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

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 is the story of Rupert T.

Few men have rightly earned the title of genius, but one must surely be Isambard Kingdom Brunel.

This book is centred on the practitioner-led Computer Arts Society founded in 1969 and formed to address creative computation in all the arts - performance, poetry, text, sound, sculpture and graphics.

Wissenschaftliche Bilder prägen die Ergebnisse und Einsichten, welche sie darstellen, immer auch konstruktiv.

A comprehensive history of the treasured Singer sewing machine from the author of Big Block One-Star Quilts by Magic.

In the 1970s, while their contemporaries were protesting the computer as a tool of dehumanization and oppression, a motley collection of college dropouts, hippies, and electronics fanatics were engaged in something much more subversive.

This contributed volume provides 11 illustrative case studies of technological transformation in the global pulp and paper industry from the inception of mechanical papermaking in early nineteenth century Europe until its recent developments in today's business environment with rapidly changing market dynamics and consumer behaviour.

Written by hundreds experts who have made contributions to both enterprise and academics research, these excellent reference books provide all necessary knowledge of the whole industrial chain of integrated circuits, and cover topics related to the technology evolution trends, fabrication, applications, new materials, equipment, economy, investment, and industrial developments of integrated circuits.