History of engineering and technology

This comprehensive book presents an analytical journey through the relationship between water and Latin American societies, offering an engineering perspective on historical water resource utilization.

Galileo never set foot on the Iberian Peninsula, yet, as Enrique Garcia Santo-Tomas unfolds in The Refracted Muse, the news of his work with telescopes brought him to surprising prominence-not just among Spaniards working in the developing science of optometry but among creative writers as well.

The contentious history of the computer programmers who developed the software that made the computer revolution possible.

This book takes the technological revolution and industrial changes as the background.

Authoritative, highly readable history of aerodynamics and the major theorists and their contributions.

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 "e;very absorbing look at technological catastrophes and why they happen"e;explores systemic breakdowns behind disasters from Chernobyl to the Challenger(Booklist).

In the first cultural and political history of the Russian nuclear age, Paul Josephson describes the rise of nuclear physics in the USSR, the enthusiastic pursuit of military and peaceful nuclear programs through the Chernobyl disaster and the collapse of the Soviet Union, and the ongoing, self-proclaimed 'renaissance' of nuclear power in Russia in the 21st century.

In a remarkable decade of public investment in higher education, some 200 new university campuses were established worldwide between 1961 and 1970.

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.

This book examines the development of nuclear propulsion in the Royal Navy from the first proposal in 1946 to the start-up of the last core improvement for the first submarine reactor power plant PWR 1 in December 1974.

In this book, Brian Lennon demonstrates the power of a philological approach to the history of programming languages and their usage cultures.

The arrival of telegraphy and railroads changed power relations throughout the world in the nineteenth century.

I he most authoritative history of piracy, Frank Sherry's rich and colorful account reveals the rise and fall of the real "e;raiders and rebels"e; who terrorized the seas.

Die Verstrickung des Unternehmens in die verbrecherische Vernichtungspolitik des NS-Regimes ist erforscht, jetzt geht es erstmals um die Frühgeschichte von BMW.

This book is an important outcome of the Fifth World Internet Conference.

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.

The technical problems confronting different societies and periods, and the measures taken to solve them form the concern of this annual collection of essays.

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

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

Leading technologists, historians, and journalists reveal the stories behind the computer coding that touches all aspects of life-for better or worseFew of us give much thought to computer code or how it comes to be.

This book offers an analysis of the formation of contemporary hospital systems between the mid-19th century and the mid-20th century.

Today, there exists an integrated, large-scale satellite system to track sea-level rise, its speed, causes, and impacts.

The technical problems confronting different societies and periods, and the measures taken to solve them form the concern of this annual collection of essays.

The former Jewel in the Crown of the British Empire, India remains, by any measure, a major economic and political actor on the world scene.

Implosion is a focused study of the history and uses of high-reliability, solid-state electronics, military standards, and space systems that support our national security and defense.

By focusing on chromosomes, Heredity under the Microscope offers a new history of postwar human genetics.

This book offers a ready solution for those who wish to learn more about this fascinating part of our water history and makes accessible to the wider world the traditional knowledge gained from building and maintaining qanats for more than 2,500 years.

Digital spaces are saturated with metaphor: we have pages, sites, mice, and windows.

Chapters "e;Turing and Free Will: A New Take on an Old Debate"e; and "e;Turing and the History of Computer Music"e; are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.

This volume collects contributions on leading figures in mechanism and machine science (MMS) from Spain and Ibero-America over the last two centuries.

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.

In the second half of the nineteenth century, American cities began to go dark.

This book systematically introduces readers to traditional Chinese handicrafts, which are original, distinct, and have had major impacts in China and around the globe.

The book examines the movement of people, artefacts and technologies across the Mediterranean - a key arena for studying ancient mobilities.

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

This book examines the role of experts and expertise in the dynamics of globalisation since the mid-nineteenth century.

The common question from the western point of view is of the sort; why did China lose its early leadership of productive technologies to Europe during the early modern period?

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.

An examination of how technological failures defined nature and national identity in Cold War Canada.

This book debates and discusses the present and future of Disruptive Technologies in general and military Disruptive Technologies in particular.

This handbook provides both an overview of state-of-the-art scholarship in philosophy of science, as well as a guide to new directions in the discipline.

Drawing on entirely new evidence, The English Renaissance Stage: Geometry, Poetics, and the Practical Spatial Arts 1580-1630 examines the history of English dramatic form and its relationship to the mathematics, technology, and early scientific thought during the Renaissance period.