History of engineering and technology

How much further should the affluent world push its material consumption?

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.

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.

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.

Lively and engaging conversations with 24 Nobel Prize winners, revealing their stories and providing inspiration for the next generation.

Lively and engaging conversations with 24 Nobel Prize winners, revealing their stories and providing inspiration for the next generation.

Explores how Britain''s global cable network became both the ''nervous system'' of its Empire and the key to electrical physics.

Explores how Britain''s global cable network became both the ''nervous system'' of its Empire and the key to electrical physics.

This book studies the correlation between technological knowledge and industrial performance, with the focus on electricity, an emerging technology during 1880 and 1945.

Explores the place of science and technology in international relations through early attempts at international governance of aviation and atomic energy.

Explores the place of science and technology in international relations through early attempts at international governance of aviation and atomic energy.

New translation of the Natural History''s opening books giving an influential Roman perspective on the natural world and geography.

Celebrates the creativity of humanity by examining the history of technology as a strategy to solve real-world problems.

A wide-ranging survey of predictions about the future development and impact of science and technology through the twentieth century.

A wide-ranging survey of predictions about the future development and impact of science and technology through the twentieth century.

An innovative history of astronomy in China, 221 BCE–750 CE, stressing plurality, change and the unifying power of myth-making.

An innovative history of astronomy in China, 221 BCE–750 CE, stressing plurality, change and the unifying power of myth-making.

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

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

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Comprehensive overview of all the key issues in Aristotle''s biological works and their place within his broader philosophy and theology.

An innovative account of the trials and tribulations of first-generation Victorian mail steamship lines, their passengers and the public.

Comprehensive overview of all the key issues in Aristotle''s biological works and their place within his broader philosophy and theology.

An innovative account of the trials and tribulations of first-generation Victorian mail steamship lines, their passengers and the public.

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

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

This book explores a technology that transformed airplanes into safe, practical tools of war and a means of transportation during the first half of the twentieth century.

This book explores a technology that transformed airplanes into safe, practical tools of war and a means of transportation during the first half of the twentieth century.

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

The first of its kind, this book traces the evolution of motion picture technology in its entirety.

Offers a distinctive history of money as an everyday social technology in the Dutch Republic from 1600 to 1850.

Offers a distinctive history of money as an everyday social technology in the Dutch Republic from 1600 to 1850.

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

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

chers lecteurs, comme tout ce qui est créé, ce livre est soumis au principe du wabi-sabi et ne peut éclairer toutes les facettes et caractéristiques de ce vaste pan des traditions japonaises.

Human prehistory is an effective tool for adopting an evolutionary perspective on present day and future challenges humans face.

The first systematic analysis of the ways scientists have used narrative in their research.

The first systematic analysis of the ways scientists have used narrative in their research.

Human prehistory is an effective tool for adopting an evolutionary perspective on present day and future challenges humans face.

From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, a revealing new portrait of Albert Einstein, the world’s first scientific “superstar” The commonly held view of Albert Einstein is of an eccentric genius for whom the pursuit of science was everything.

William Jervois was a military engineer who rose to prominence as a result of Lord Palmerston's extensive programme of fortification against a feared French invasion in the middle years of the nineteenth century.

How culture shapes the design and use of technologyand how we can resist the one-size-fits-all approach to technology designRobots that encroach on your personal space, baffling emojis, a chatbot that gives you an answer that seems terribly rudedoes any of this sound familiar?

Stenciled on many of the deactivated facilities at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, the evocative phrase "e;abandoned in place"e; indicates the structures that have been deserted.

Unless you are a specialist or watch a lot of obscure YouTube videos you have probably never heard of He II or superfluid helium.

The Audible Past explores the cultural origins of sound reproduction.

Beautiful Data is both a history of big data and interactivity, and a sophisticated meditation on ideas about vision and cognition in the second half of the twentieth century.

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