History of Engineering & Technology

How Chinese characters triumphed over the QWERTY keyboard and laid the foundation for China''s information technology successes today. Chinese w...

Look around. Clearly, we humans are radically different from the other creatures on this planet. But why? Where are the Bronze Age beavers? The Iro...

From facial recognitioncapable of checking us onto flights or identifying undocumented residentsto automated decision systems that inform everythin...

Activists, pundits, politicians, and the press frequently proclaim today's digitally mediated racial justice activism the new civil rights movement...

While the twentieth centurys conflicting visions and exploitation of the Middle East are well documented, the origins of the concept of the Middle ...

Mobile phones are a ubiquitous technology with a fascinating history. There are now as many mobile phones in the world as there are people. We car...

Do You Compute? is a broad survey featuring the very best of computer advertising in the 20th century. From the Atomic Age to the Y2K bug, this vol...

The permanent way is a principal feature of all railways, but is little explored. Jim Pikes illustrated history fills this gap in railway literatur...

Victorian Britain was the world's industrial powerhouse. Its factories, mills and foundries supplied a global demand for manufactured goods. As Bri...

At the Berlin Auto Show in 1938, Adolf Hitler presented the prototype for a small, oddly shaped, inexpensive family car that all good Aryans could ...

What is time made of? We might balk at such a question, and reply that time is not made of anything--it is an abstract and universal phenomenon. In...

A revised edition of the New York Times bestselling classic: the epic story of the golden years of American space exploration, told by the men who ...

The SS Great Britain Story is a concise account of one of the most famous steamships ever built. The great Victorian engineer Isambard Kingdom Brun...

The riveting quest to construct the machine that would take on the worlds greatest human chess playertold by the man who built itOn May 11, 1997, m...

The southern agricultural landscape is enriched by the occasional old cane mill, once the center of family activity each fall as juice was squeezed...

Concluding the Commodore trilogy, this book takes a look at Commodore's resurgence in the late 1980's and then ultimate demise. This was a period o...

Beginning in 1881, isolated prototypes of electric tricycles and bicycles were patented and sometimes tested. Limited editions followed in the 1...

Laika began her life as a stray dog on the streets of Moscow and died in 1957 aboard the Soviet satellite Sputnik II. Initially the USSR reported t...

From all points of the world I see man rising with the promptness of electricity, soaring in the air, and descending like a bird when and where he ...

This fascinating story charts the career of Max Hoffman, the US car dealer who represented Jaguar, Porsche, Mercedes, Volkswagen, Fiat, Lancia, BMW...