History of engineering and technology

This book focuses on the development of four key issues in the development of modern Spain; knowledge, manufacturing, energy and telecommunications, and public works.

Uber is one of the most innovative companies of our time.

Catch a Falling Star, the life story of Donald Clayton, follows the struggle of one human being to find love and to create scientific understanding of the origin of the atoms of chemical elements.

This book is about the defining people, events and institutions in the authors life.

Daniel Brandau legt eine umfassend recherchierte Kulturgeschichte der deutschen Raumfahrtbegeisterung vor – und schildert, wie Technikenthusiasmus in Skepsis umschlug.

The Repair Shop's Dominic Chinea takes you on an exploration of 100 essential machines found in the workshops and studios of the world's finest artisans and heritage craftspeople.

We are born with the instinct to create and invent.

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.

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

This book explores the practicality of using the existing subsurface geology on the Moon and Mars for protection against radiation, thermal extremes, micrometeorites and dust storms rather than building surface habitats at great expense at least for those first few missions.

Qanats are ubiquitous, yet unseen, and a clever way to create streams where none exist in nature.

This work derives from a conference discussing the history of computing in education.

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe official book behind the Academy Award-winning film The Imitation Game, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira KnightleyIt is only a slight exaggeration to say that the British mathematician Alan Turing (19121954) saved the Allies from the Nazis, invented the computer and artificial intelligence, and anticipated gay liberation by decadesall before his suicide at age forty-one.

A history of the creation and evolution of the mechanism that brought precision to the steam power and changed the world.

A history of the creation and evolution of the mechanism that brought precision to the steam power and changed the world.

Nowadays, we take technological advancement for granted; much of what we need or want to see is available at the touch of a button.

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.

The Canal du Midi, which threads through southwestern France and links the Atlantic to the Mediterranean, was an astonishing feat of seventeenth-century engineering--in fact, it was technically impossible according to the standards of its day.

The Console Chronicles will take you on a unique journey through the history of gaming platforms.

Now in a thoroughly updated new edition, this successful textbook surveys the history of technology in America from the 1600s to the 21st century.

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 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.

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

Assembling the Architect explores the origins and history of architectural practice.

Assembling the Architect explores the origins and history of architectural practice.

Despite having undergone major advances in recent years, the history of technology in Latin America is still an understudied topic.

Despite having undergone major advances in recent years, the history of technology in Latin America is still an understudied topic.

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

People often associate postwar Germany with technology and with its products of mass consumption, such as luxury cars.

People often associate postwar Germany with technology and with its products of mass consumption, such as luxury cars.

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.

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.

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?

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

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

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

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

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