History of engineering and technology

Plant breeders have long sought technologies to extend human control over nature.

In Six Memos for the Next Millennium, Italo Calvino elaborated on six concepts or memos to offer insights on the 'shapes of things to come', which were lightness, rapidity, exactness, visibility, multiplicity and consistency.

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

The history of science is all around us, if you know where to look.

THE FINANCIAL TIMES BEST BOOKS OF THE YEARThis absorbing collective biography of the genius Nobel family reveals how the Nobels' business and personal lives were fundamentally intertwined with the histories of Sweden and Russia, as well as the economic and entrepreneurial development of Europe in the long 19th century.

Karl Bodenschatz was the Richthofen squadron adjutant.

In contrast to the close cooperation practiced among European states, space relations among Asian states have become increasingly tense.

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

This book examines the remarkable Velestino hoard, found in Thessaly in the 1920s, and analyses the light that this collection of artifacts sheds on a poorly studied period of Byzantine history, and on largely neglected aspects of Byzantine civilization.

The astonishing story of America's airwaves, the two friends-one a media mogul, the other a famous inventor-who made them available to us, and the government which figured out how to put a price on air.

This book presents a self-contained introduction to the physics of computing, by addressing the fundamental underlying principles that involve the act of computing, regardless of the actual machine that is used to compute.

The world of insects is one we only dimly understand.

Microhistory is a technique that has been used effectively by writers of both fiction and nonfiction.

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.

This book examines the fundamental evidence for many different aspects of change and evolution in ancient Egyptian technology.

This book is a collection of refereed invited papers on the history of computing in education from the 1970s to the mid-1990s presenting a social history of the introduction and early use of computers in schools.

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

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

One of the most impressive computer systems ever was the vacuum tube based behemoth AN/FSQ-7, which was the heart of the 'Semi Automatic Ground Environment'.

New perspectives on digital scholarship that speak to today's computational realities Scholars across the humanities, social sciences, and information sciences are grappling with how best to study virtual environments, use computational tools in their research, and engage audiences with their results.

An immersive account of a commercial fishing disaster at sea whose repercussions haunt its survivors to this day, lauded by New York Times bestselling author Ron Suskind as ';an honest and touching book, and a hell of a story.

There are thousands of road bridges all over Britain with many being found around the coastline.

This book, within the vision of the study on the image history, clearly manifests the development of Chinese image science and technology of over 2000 years based on compendium, while having briefly sorted out expositions by scientists since ancient times in China, demonstrates the spiritual course, ideas of thinking and forms of life and reveales profound humane ideas, basis of sentiments and styles of the spirit featured by Chinese image culture.

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

This book charts the take-up of IT in Britain, as seen through the eyes of one company.

In today's workplace, computer and cybersecurity professionals must understand both hardware and software to deploy effective security solutions.

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

This is the story of a seductive idea.

How two pioneers of math and technology ushered in the computer revolutionBoolean algebra, also called Boolean logic, is at the heart of the electronic circuitry in everything we use-from our computers and cars, to home appliances.

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

This book offers a unique glance into the process of globalisation of the architectural practice during the last three decades through the lenses of innovative methodologies in architectural history based on quantitative data.

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

This book presents critical evaluations of various historical sources and their impact on technological development.

This book offers the first complete account of more than sixty years of international research on In-Flight Simulation and related development of electronic and electro-optic flight control system technologies ("e;Fly-by-Wire"e; and "e;Fly-by-Light"e;).

From Blaise Pascal in the 1600s to Charles Babbage in the first half of the nineteenth century, inventors struggled to create the first calculating machines.

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

This book highlights the unique need for philosophy among engineers, which stems from issues regarding their knowledge (epistemology), role or being (ontology) and influence (ethics).

As a field, computer science occupies a unique scientific space, in that its subject matter can exist in both physical and abstract realms.

Whether depicting humans battling aliens or a brave geologist saving lives as a volcano erupts, science-fiction films are an exciting visual and sensuous introduction to the workings of science and technology.

A Companion to Science, Technology, and Medicine in Ancient Greece and Rome brings a fresh perspective to the study of these disciplines in the ancient world, with 60 chapters examining these topics from a variety of critical and technical perspectives.

In 2013, a Dutch scientist unveiled the world's first laboratory-created hamburger.

This book explores how science and mathematics were communicated in antiquity in a wide variety of texts, including poetry, letters and biographies.

This Brief documents the life, discoveries and inventions of the chemist Carl Auer von Welsbach.

Die moderne Informationstechnologie durchdringt und verändert unsere Welt – weit mehr und intensiver, als die meisten von uns ahnen.

This book provides a history of Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI), a large Britain- based chemical firm which was a major industrial player in the twentieth century.

After World War II, the US Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) began mass-producing radioisotopes, sending out nearly 64,000 shipments of radioactive materials to scientists and physicians by 1955.