History of engineering and technology

Exploring how scholars use digital resources to reconstruct the 19th century, this volume probes key issues in the intersection of digital humanities and history.

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 places the contemporary fear of climate change in historical perspective, showing that throughout human history the dominant perspective on the future has been one of fear.

Bestseller-Autor Stefan Klein nimmt uns mit auf eine spannende Reise durch die Geschichte des schöpferischen Denkens.

How Paris, London, Chicago, Berlin, and Tokyo created modernity through science and technology by means of urban planning, international expositions, and museums.

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.

'By mixing lo-fi charm into hi-fi science Into the Groove captures all the wonder and absurdity of its subject, jumping and skipping with real analogue delight.

'Riveting, timely and truly revelatory.

The 18th and 19th centuries saw the emergence of new intermediary types of knowledge in areas such as applied mechanics, fluid mechanics and thermodynamics, which came to be labeled as engineering science,  transforming technology into the scientific discipline that we know today.

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

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.

Daten sind das neue Gold - und neuronale Netze haben bereits einigen Unternehmen geholfen, diesen Schatz auszugraben.

This book demonstrates how progress in radio astronomy is intimately linked to the development of reflector antennas of increasing size and precision.

This book places the contemporary fear of climate change in historical perspective, showing that throughout human history the dominant perspective on the future has been one of fear.

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.

'By mixing lo-fi charm into hi-fi science Into the Groove captures all the wonder and absurdity of its subject, jumping and skipping with real analogue delight.

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

One theme of this volume is whether the complementarity between technology and human capital is a recent phenomenon, or whether it can be traced through history.

The Invisible History of Museum Computing uses engaging quotes from a one-of-a-kind collection of oral histories gathered by the authors from more than fifty current and former museum technology professionals working in the Americas, Europe, Asia, and Australia to shine a light on the invisible, behind-the-scenes work of museum computing.

Sir Richard Fairey was one of the great aviation innovators of the twentieth century.

Learjet 24 (24-123, N3731)Credit: Paul BowenThis book offers an unique, comprehensive retrospective on the Learjet aircraft, from the establishment by Bill Lear in the sixties, to its slow demise in 2021.

This book systematically reviews world Internet development over the past 50 years, and comprehensively discusses the great contributions it has made to economic and social advances.

This volume explores the diverse meanings and ways of implementing development programs and technical assistance projects, through several case studies grounded in Mexico but transcending its geography.

This book explores the global technological transformations that have shaped development of society for eons, from the emergence of Homo sapiens to the modern day.

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This book addresses the global history of technology, warfare and state formation from the Stone Age to the Information Age.

This 2005 book explores the emergence of technology and the key role it will play in our future.

Case histories of engineering success and failure are presented to enrich understanding of the design process.

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

Stories about objects left in the wake of transactions, from cryptocurrencies to leaf-imprinted banknotes to records kept with knotted string.

This book is a collection of papers on the set-bells of Marquis Yi to commemorate the 10th anniversary of their discovery.

Wie Schach beliebter wurde als je zuvorSchach hatte lange Zeit ein altmodisches Image und wurde mit bebrillten, schüchternen Männern und exzentrischen russischen Genies in Verbindung gebracht.

This fully updated edition surveys the remarkable transformation that is taking place in urban America.

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

Theres a revolution going on, as ever-accelerating developments in digital information technologies change nearly every aspect of how we live, work, play, do business, and engage in politics.

Queer Techn offers an intimate portrait of the practices, embodied knowledge, desires, and friendships that animate the technical innovation of early digital computing.

Nearly every aspect of daily life in the Mediterranean world and Europe during the florescence of the Greek and Roman cultures is relevant to the topics of engineering and technology.

This book gathers the latest advances in the field of history of science and technology, as presented by leading international researchers at the 7th International Symposium on History of Machines and Mechanisms (HMM), held in Granada and Jaen, Spain on April 28-30, 2022.

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

This volume in the Greenwood Technographies series covers urban mass transit - that is, the technologies that allow cities to move large numbers of people around.

This book describes in an easily accessible way how artificial intelligence (AI) will help us to overcome the ongoing rise in complexity and thus shape our lives and work in a not-too-distant future.

This book analyzes the rhetorical and visual strategies used in technical texts and non-technical literature to describe technological artifacts.

All the Facts presents a history of the role of information in the United States since 1870, when the nation began a nearly 150-year period of economic prosperity and technological and scientific transformations.

Masonry constructions are the great majority of the buildings in Europe's historic centres and the most important monuments of its architectural heritage.

The first synoptic history of how the Royal Society faced up to the challenges of continued relevance from 1960 onwards.