History of engineering and technology

The conventional understanding of Japanese wartime ideology has for years been summed up by just a few words: anti-modern, spiritualist, and irrational.

The early years of film were dominated by competition between inventors in America and France, especially Thomas Edison and the Lumiere brothers .

Angela Ki Che Leung's meticulous study begins with the classical annals of the imperial era, which contain the first descriptions of a feared and stigmatized disorder modern researchers now identify as leprosy.

Digital spaces are saturated with metaphor: we have pages, sites, mice, and windows.

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

Computing in the Nordic countries started in late 1940s mainly as an engineering activity to build computing devices to perform mathematical calculations and assist mathematicians and engineers in scientific problem solving.

An essential exploration of the engineering aesthetics of celebrated structures from long-span bridges to high-rise buildingsWhat do structures such as the Eiffel Tower, the Brooklyn Bridge, and the concrete roofs of Pier Luigi Nervi have in common?

Global engineering offers the seductive image of engineers figuring out how to optimize work through collaboration and mobility.

From the pilot's seat in the B-29 that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, to Chernobyl's exclusion zone and to the site in Finland where highly radioactive waste will be buried, this is the incredible story of nuclear power.

This collection of essays reflects the author's decades-long dedication to studying the interplay between mechanics and architecture.

Emory Kemp is the founder and director of the Institute for the History of Technology and Industrial Archaeology at West Virginia University, where he also served as a chair and professor of civil engineering and a professor of history.

This book provides a critical perspective on technology, answering the questions of why technologies often disappoint.

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.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Die Dampflokomotive in ihren Hauptentwicklungslinien" verfügbar.

In the folklore of mathematics, James Joseph Sylvester (1814-1897) is the eccentric, hot-tempered, sword-cane-wielding, nineteenth-century British Jew who, together with the taciturn Arthur Cayley, developed a theory and language of invariants that then died spectacularly in the 1890s as a result of David Hilbert's groundbreaking, `modern' techniques.

Science is the great intellectual adventure, but can also be an instrument of profit, power, and privilege.

Early in the 20th century, our world was small and closed with boundaries.

It is now 35 years since the death of Professor Joan Woodward, one of the founding figures of organization studies.

This book addresses the question of variability in backed bladelet-based technologies.

This text examines in detail the issue of the underrepresentation of women, African Americans, American Indians, and Hispanics in the computing disciplines in the U.

A riveting introduction to the complex and evolving field of geospatial intelligence.

In 1859, 100,000 folks started the journey to the Pikes Peak goldfields, but only 50,000 completed the trip.

This handbook provides both an overview of state-of-the-art scholarship in philosophy of science, as well as a guide to new directions in the discipline.

This volume is a collection of essays of a philosophical nature on the subject of technology, introducing authors from the Portuguese-speaking community, namely from Portugal itself, Africa and Brazil.

The annual collections in the History of Technology series look at the history of technological discovery and change, exploring the relationship of technology to other aspects of life and showing how technological development is affected by the society in which it occurred.

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

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

This Third Edition is the first English-language edition of the award-winning Meilensteine der Rechentechnik; illustrated in full color throughout in two volumes.

This book discusses technological developments by distinguished figures in the history of MMS (mechanism and machine science).

Since the end of World War II, European airlines have revealed their own operational style.

How two pioneers of math and technology ushered in the computer revolutionBoolean algebra, also called Boolean logic, is at the heart of the electronic circuitry in everything we use-from our computers and cars, to home appliances.

Sir Richard Fairey was one of the great aviation innovators of the twentieth century.

The impact on modern society made by the Internet is immeasurable.

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

Scientific change is often a function of technological innovation - new instruments show us new things we could not see before and we then need new theories to explain them.

Since well before the debates about global warming and climate change, images have played an important part in bringing changes in nature and the environment to the attention of the general public.

For all being interested in astronautics, this translation of Hermann Oberth's classic work is a truly historic event.

The first global history of the epic early days of the iron railway Railways, in simple wooden or stone form, have existed since prehistory.

A thought-provoking analysis of how the acquisition and utilization of information has determined the course of history over the past five centuries and shaped the world as we know it today Information is power.

A true revolution has rocked the space industry, as Silicon Valley and new startup companies around the world have shaken up the status quo.

This book, within the vision of the study on the image history, clearly manifests the development of Chinese image science and technology of over 2000 years based on compendium, while having briefly sorted out expositions by scientists since ancient times in China, demonstrates the spiritual course, ideas of thinking and forms of life and reveales profound humane ideas, basis of sentiments and styles of the spirit featured by Chinese image culture.

Using ecological, historical, humanist, institutionalist, and Marxist methodologies, Duncan argues that the entire project of developing the theory of political economy has been seriously sidetracked by industrialism.

Water may seem innocuous, but as a universal necessity, it inevitably intersects with politics when it comes to acquisition, control, and associated technologies.

A comprehensive account of ancient surveying instruments together with translations of all the ancient sources.

Nominated for the CWA Dagger Award 2023'A wonderful book' - Guardian Truth, murder and the birth of the lie detectorHenry Wilkens burst through the doors of the emergency room covered in his wife's blood.

A humanist manifesto for the age of AIArtificial intelligence may be the most transformative technology of our time.

Episodes in the history of data, from early modern math problems to today''s inescapable “dataveillance,” that demonstrate the dependence of data on culture.