History of engineering and technology

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.

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.

:A simple idea starts a look back.

"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).

Over the past thirty years, the world's patent systems have experienced pressure from civil society like never before.

An exploration of the scientist's inspiring life, his controversies, his legacy, and how his creativity can help us today.

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.

Tesla's groundbreaking 1892 London lecture and his visionary paper on wireless technology, with an introduction by biographer W.

Greed and corruption, bribery and fraud, insiders getting fabulously rich while workers get robbed.

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.

Every day up to 3,000 aircraft fly across the Atlantic Ocean.

Imagine the twentieth century without photography and film.

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.

"e;Exhaustively detailed yet eminently readable, this is an important book.

Imagine the twentieth century without photography and film.

A math-free introduction to the greatest scientific ideas of the last 2,000 years: "e;This is the book for the wannabe science nerd.

In the decades after the Civil War, the world experienced monumental changes in industry, trade, and governance.

In the decades after the Civil War, the world experienced monumental changes in industry, trade, and governance.