History of engineering and technology

How did the Commodore 64 conquer the hearts of millions and become a platform people still actively develop for even today?

The present collection of essays are published in honor of the distinguished historian of mathematics Professor Emeritus Jesper Lutzen.

Space exploration has fascinated us since the launch of the first primitive rockets more than 3,000 years ago, and it continues to fascinate us today.

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

The noted historian offers "e;a compelling sociohistorical account of an often overlooked yet critical"e; WWII explosive twice as powerful as TNT (Choice).

Modern information technology permeates and transforms our world-far more intensely than most of us realize.

In modern life, technology is everywhere.

This is the first comprehensive history of human-computer interaction (HCI).

Manufacturing computers in series was quite a feat in the 1950s.

This book provides a compact history of gears, by summarizing the main stages of their development and the corresponding gradual acquisition of engineering expertise, from the antiquity to the Renaissance and the twentieth century.

Roughly half the world's population speaks languages derived from a shared linguistic source known as Proto-Indo-European.

De nombreuses personnes sont capables de percevoir avec finesse l'atmosphère d'un lieu ou d'une maison.

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

The rise and fall of William Mulholland, and the story of L.

This volume is the first extensive study of the historical and philosophical connections between technology and mathematics.

Offers an introduction and critical guide to the relationship between scientific thought and religious belief.

While historians have given ample attention to stories of entrepreneurship, invention, and labor conflict, they have told us little about actual work-places and how people worked.

During the 20th century dam-building became a truly global endeavour.

This book illuminates what engineering is and how it relates to other disciplines such as art, architecture, law,  economics, science, technology, and even religion.

The public spaces and buildings of the United States are home to many thousands of timepieces-bells, time balls, and clock faces-that tower over urban streets, peek out from lobbies, and gleam in store windows.

The authors explore the influence of Freud''s thinking on twentieth-century intellectual and scientific life within Cambridge and beyond.

Die in den Jahren 1848 bis 1854 unter der Leitung von Carl Ritter von Ghega errichtete Eisenbahn über den Semmering ging als erste Hochgebirgseisenbahn der Welt in die Geschichte ein.

An argument that technology accelerates biological discovery, with case studies ranging from chromosome discovery with early microscopes to how DNA replicates using radioisotope labels.

Our continued use of the combustion engine car in the 21st century, despite many rational arguments against it, makes it more and more difficult to imagine that transport has a sustainable future.

Ein vergnügliches Lesebuch rund um das Radio: Rainer Suckow erzählt in 60 unterhaltsamen Geschichten von prägenden Menschen und Ereignissen der Hörfunkgeschichte.

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.

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

Handwritten over four years from maximum-security federal prison cells, The Rose of Paracelsus: On Secrets and Sacraments, is a unique work of psychedelic literature that explores the potential of human cognition.

This accessible textbook presents a fascinating review of cryptography and cryptanalysis across history.

This book explores the human-engineered flooding of China''s Yellow River, and how it affected the state, environment, and inhabitants of the region.

This textbook presents a fascinating review of cryptography and cryptanalysis, from the earliest known cryptographic systems of 2,500 years ago up to modern computer-based systems.

Whether buried underfoot or strung overhead, electrical lines are omnipresent.

On what basis can we challenge Artificial Intelligence (AI) - its infusion, investment, and implementation across the globe?

When viewed through a political lens, the act of defining terms in natural language arguably transforms knowledge into values.

Today technology has created a world of dazzling progress, growing disparities of wealth and poverty, and looming threats to the environment.

Engineering is where human knowledge meets real-world problemsand solves them.

An historical overview of the development of professional optical and radio observatories from 1945 to today.

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

For better or worse, television has been the dominant medium of communication for 50 years.

In times of powerful AI systems, such as GPT, Value-based Engineering is deeply needed.

A major new study tracing historical roots of the interplay between policy, population and science in Japan from the 1860s-1950s.

This book is dedicated to the history and contemporary activities of IGIP that occupies a unique position among world organizations who are focused on Engineering Education.

The express delivery industry plays a pivotal role in fostering social and economic advancements.

Challenging the notion that francophone literature generally valorizes a traditional, natural mode of being over a scientific, modern one, Inter-tech(s) proposes a new understanding of the relationship between France and its former colonies in Africa and the Caribbean by exploring how various postindependence authors depict technology as a mediator between them.