History of engineering and technology

';The gold standard for Tesla biography.

A transnational approach to understanding and analyzing knowledge circulation.

Military Writers Society of America Awards, Gold Medal for HistoryHighlighting men and women across the globe who have dedicated themselves to pushing the limits of space exploration, this book surveys the programs, technological advancements, medical equipment, and automated systems that have made space travel possible.

This book charts the history of the worldwide introduction of an operative treatment method for broken bones, osteosynthesis, by a Swiss-based association, called AO.

How xerography became a creative medium and political tool, arming artists and activists on the margins with an accessible means of making their messages public.

How electricity became a metaphor for modernity in the United States, inspiring authors from Mark Twain to Ralph Ellison.

Since the end of the Cold War, U.

By focusing on chromosomes, Heredity under the Microscope offers a new history of postwar human genetics.

Capitalism likes us to believe in the steady, inevitable march of progress, from the abacus to the iPad.

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.

A wide-ranging history of the algorithm.

Science now reveals the true cause of the dam breach flood that destroyed Johnstown in 1889.

Die Studie über das Stuttgarter Hoftheater denkt Theater und Stadt zur Zeit der Elektrifizierung um 1900 zusammen.

Profiling 60 medical innovations and milestones from the 11th through 21st centuries, this book highlights the people and stories behind these key moments while also exploring their historical context and enduring legacy.

This book introduces the term of TechnoScienceSociety to focus on the ongoing technological reconfigurations of science and society.

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

Four decades after its launch, the Jaguar E-type is still at the top of most car enthusiasts' Christmas lists.

July 2019 marks 50 years since Neil Armstrong took his famous first steps on the surface of the Moon.

Overview The objective of this book is to provide an introduction into some of the key topics in the history of computing.

This book presents the entire body of thought of Norbert Wiener (1894-1964), knowledge of which is essential if one wishes to understand and correctly interpret the age in which we live.

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 introduces the term of TechnoScienceSociety to focus on the ongoing technological reconfigurations of science and society.

Karl Bodenschatz was the Richthofen squadron adjutant.

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?

Code Nation explores the rise of software development as a social, cultural, and technical phenomenon in American history.

The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Technology gives readers a view into this increasingly vital and urgently needed domain of philosophical understanding, offering an in-depth collection of leading and emerging voices in the philosophy of technology.

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 stimulating textbook presents a broad and accessible guide to the fundamentals of discrete mathematics, highlighting how the techniques may be applied to various exciting areas in computing.

-Ecclesiastes 12:12 Programs are invariably subjected to many rorms or transrormation.

Although difficult, change in academic structures is necessary today, especially in fast-changing fields today such as biology, computing, management, the social sciences, and others.

The rise and fall of the ringtone industry and its effect on mobile entertainment, music, television, film, and politics.

This book takes the technological revolution and industrial changes as the background.

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 describes the inventions and designs of ancient engineers who are the precursors of the present.

From the moment news reached Peru in 1910 that Jorge Chavez Dartnell, a pilot of Peruvian parentage, had become the first man to fly across the Alps, aviation fired the imagination of the masses in his home country.

This volume provides an overview of current research in the history of Italian technology in the long run, from the early Middle Ages to the 20th century.

As long as humans have existed on the planet, they have looked at the world around them and wondered about much of what they saw.

Seit Beginn dessen, was man Philosophie nennt – also dem Zeitalter der Vorsokratiker – haben große Geister sich bemüht, den Dualismus Geist-Materie zu überwinden und Erkenntnis auf eine einzige, eindeutige Quelle zurück zu führen – dem Ding-an-sich.

In the 1880s photographers and sports enthusiasts confidently declared the end of dead heats in sporting competition.

Written by hundreds experts who have made contributions to both enterprise and academics research, these excellent reference books provide all necessary knowledge of the whole industrial chain of integrated circuits, and cover topics related to the technology evolution trends, fabrication, applications, new materials, equipment, economy, investment, and industrial developments of integrated circuits.

The riveting quest to construct the machine that would take on the world's greatest human chess player-told by the man who built itOn May 11, 1997, millions worldwide heard news of a stunning victory, as a machine defeated the defending world chess champion, Garry Kasparov.

During most of the nineteenth century, physicians and pharmacists alike considered medical patenting and the use of trademarks by drug manufacturers unethical forms of monopoly; physicians who prescribed patented drugs could be, and were, ostracized from the medical community.

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

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

Militarizing Outer Space explores the dystopian and destructive dimensions of the Space Age and challenges conventional narratives of a bipolar Cold War rivalry.