Ithiel de Sola Pool nos lega su visión de un mundo nuevo, resultante de las consecuencias sociales y políticas de la tecnología de las comunicaciones, y prevé cambios radicales que revolucionarán la cultura y la sociedad, tanto como lo hizo la invención de la imprenta hace cinco siglos.
The dramatic human story of an epic scientific quest: the search for the solution of how to calculate longitude and the unlikely triumph of an English genius.
Histories of Technology, the Environment, and Modern Britain brings together historians with a wide range of interests to take a uniquely wide-lens view of how technology and the environment have been intimately and irreversibly entangled in Britain over the last 300 years.
Este libro se enfoca en las transformaciones de las políticas que afectaron al sistema público de investigación científica entre 1980 y 2021, ocupándose del análisis de organismos públicos e instrumentos transversales que permean a las distintas instituciones involucradas.
"e;A mine of information"e; on the surprising technological advances made in the Middle Ages, from the authors of Life in a Medieval City (Kirkus Reviews).
It is impossible to imagine London without the Tube: the beating heart of the city, the Underground shuttles over a billion passengers each year below its busy streets and across its leafy suburbs.
A richly illustrated introduction to the engineering triumphs that made America modernIn this age of microchips and deep space probes, it's hard to imagine life before electricity or passenger trains.
This book takes the reader on an enchanting journey into the lives of fourteen genius scientists who lived during the enlightenment period to the mid-twentieth century.
From Oracle Bones to Computers not only provides a succinct yet in-depth account of the development of writing technologies in the five thousand years of China's history but also develops an operationalized model of rhetorical analysis that can be applied to the study of any writing technology development.
