History of engineering and technology

This book tells the story of Agent Orange, its usage and the policies that surround it.

This book is a must-read for all those interested in the evolution of airplanes.

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.

This book describes the groundbreaking work of Chaim Leib Pekeris and his collaborators.

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.

Whether buried underfoot or strung overhead, electrical lines are omnipresent.

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

In the second half of the nineteenth century, American cities began to go dark.

Limiting Outer Space propels the historicization of outer space by focusing on the Post-Apollo period.

This is the most comprehensive, English-language study of the German Imperial Navy's battlecruisers that served in the First World War.

Few men have rightly earned the title of genius, but one must surely be Isambard Kingdom Brunel.

Since ancient times, humans have been engaged in a continual quest to find meaning in and make sense of sights and events in the night sky.

This book follows the development of research on the origin of the Moon from the late 18th century to the present.

This book tells the story of government-sponsored wiretapping in Britain and the United States from the rise of telephony in the 1870s until the terrorist attacks of 9/11.

The book tells the unique story of WEIZAC, an early computer built by a "e;new nation"e; in the early 1950s.

This book introduces recent global advances and innovations in industry integrated engineering and computing education to academics, program managers, department heads, and deans, and shares with readers a critical perspective on future potentials in industry integrated engineering education.

This is the remarkable story of an entrepreneurial firm that helped to create the petrochemical industry as we know it today.

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

Our natural world has been irretrievably altered by humans, for humans.

This book provides a compact history of gears, by summarizing the main stages of their development and the corresponding gradual acquisition of engineering expertise, from the antiquity to the Renaissance and the twentieth century.

This is the proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on History of Machines and Mechanisms that was held in Beijing, China, in September 2018.

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

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

In the second half of the twentieth century, new sounds began to reverberate across the United States.

This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the IFIP WG 9.

This book examines the remarkable Velestino hoard, found in Thessaly in the 1920s, and analyses the light that this collection of artifacts sheds on a poorly studied period of Byzantine history, and on largely neglected aspects of Byzantine civilization.

This Brief documents the life, discoveries and inventions of the chemist Carl Auer von Welsbach.

What made it possible for the human species to conquer the world, build a global digital economy, and still want more?

The main aim of the book is to give a review of all relevant information regarding a well-known and important problem of Feedback Arc Set (FAS).

In September 1969, several months after the Apollo 11 lunar landing, President Richard M.

Scientific visualization has always been an integral part of discovery, starting first with simplified drawings of the pre-Enlightenment and progressing to present day.

Learjet 24 (24-123, N3731)Credit: Paul BowenThis book offers an unique, comprehensive retrospective on the Learjet aircraft, from the establishment by Bill Lear in the sixties, to its slow demise in 2021.

This book gathers the latest advances in the field of history of science and technology, as presented by leading international researchers at the 7th International Symposium on History of Machines and Mechanisms (HMM), held in Granada and Jaen, Spain on April 28-30, 2022.

Conceived in the 1850s and opened to navigation in 1869, the Suez Canal's construction coincided with Italy's path to unification and its first foray into nineteenth-century globalization.

This monograph presents a synopsis of fluid dynamics based on the personal scientific experience of the author who has contributed immensely to the field.

On what basis can we challenge Artificial Intelligence (AI) - its infusion, investment, and implementation across the globe?

This book tells the inside story of Germany's first contributions to space research by experiments with artificial plasma clouds in space.

This book tells the story of how the science of computational multiphase flow began in an effort to better analyze hypothetical light water power reactor accidents, including the "e;loss of coolant"e; accident.

This book examines the role of experts and expertise in the dynamics of globalisation since the mid-nineteenth century.

This book highlights the close interactions between plants, plant knowledge, politics, and social life in Padua during the age of revolution.

In his book, pending between history and sociology, on engineers in thirteen countries of the western part of Europe, Professor Rolf Torstendahl approaches the development from around 1850 up to the present situation from different angles.

This engaging book places Leonardo da Vinci's scientific achievements within the wider context of the rapid development that occurred during the Renaissance.

This book is about how electronics, computing, and telecommunications have profoundly changed our lives - the way we work, live, and play.

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

This book provides an overview of metal casting technologies starting from its historical evolution to casting design strategies that are being followed today in foundries and other metal casting industries.

This volume is the first extensive study of the historical and philosophical connections between technology and mathematics.

In  the concluding chapters of this book the author introduces GIM, the Global Intelligent Machine.

This book presents a historical and philosophical analysis of programming systems, intended as large computational systems like, for instance, operating systems, programmed to control processes.

The 18th and 19th centuries saw the emergence of new intermediary types of knowledge in areas such as applied mechanics, fluid mechanics and thermodynamics, which came to be labeled as engineering science,  transforming technology into the scientific discipline that we know today.