History of Engineering & Technology

A stunning visual celebration of the world's aircraft and the pioneers who made a dream become reality.Introducing Flight - a historical and visual...

In this lively and entertaining work, Witold Rybczynskihailed as one of the best writers on design working today by Publishers Weeklytells the stor...

The essays in this volume explore how two domains of human experience and actionreligion and technologyare implicated in each other. Contrary to co...

All roads begin somewhere and todays U. S. highway system began with an exploratory, cross-country ride, led by 28-year-old Army lieutenant colonel...

This book provides a detailed examination of the questions that preoccupied British alienists throughout the second half of the nineteenth century....

Modern information technology permeates and transforms our worldfar more intensely than most of us realize. The book describes its origin, history,...

Dieses Buch behandelt die globale Geschichte von Technologie, Kriegsführung und Staatenbildung vom Steinzeitalter bis zum Informationszeitalter. Un...

Explore seven older computer languages and discover new and fresh ideas that will change the way you think about programming. These languages were ...

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

This book provides an overview of American aviation from 1903 to 1941, covering major developments in aviation technology. It focuses on the role o...

A Simpler Life approaches the developing field of synthetic biology by focusing on the experimental and institutional lives of practitioners in two...

This textbook presents a fascinating review of cryptography and cryptanalysis, from the earliest known cryptographic systems of 2,500 years ago up ...

Before John Deere, Ford, and International Harvester became icons of American business, they were competitors in a forgotten battle for the farm. F...