History of Engineering & Technology

We were certainly pioneers as the Trieste was one of only two such vehicles in the world--the French Navy's bathyscaphe FNRS-3 was the other. It me...

Mr. Dahlstrom...has written a superb history of the tractor and this long-forgotten period of capitalism in U.S. agriculture. We now know the whole...

The technologically tethered, iPhone-addicted figure is an image we can easily conjure. Most of us complain that there aren't enough hours in the d...

'A practical and positive guide to using tech to change women's lives for the better' -Caroline Criado Perez, author of Invisible Women: exposing d...

Both Tromp-class frigates entered service in 1975/-76. Their primary task was area air defense. They acted as flagships for the COMNLTG (Commander ...

An inside account of one of the most innovative R&D ecosystems of the 20th century, from the man who was at the center of it all. Over a 60-yea...

Data Borders investigates entrenched and emerging borderland technology that ensnares all people in an intimate web of surveillance where data resi...

Data Borders investigates entrenched and emerging borderland technology that ensnares all people in an intimate web of surveillance where data resi...

From the Dead Sea Scrolls to the Terracotta Army, ancient artifacts have long fascinated the modern world. However, the importance of some discover...

Newton's Opticks is the most influential optical and experimental work of the eighteenth century. This final volume of The Optical Papers of Isaac ...

The bombing of Pearl Harbor set off a chain of events that included the race to beat German scientists to build the atomic bomb. A tiny hamlet tuck...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the b...

Triumphs and disasters in the deep sea This is a journey through time and water, to the bottom of the ocean and the future o...

What the f*ck is 5G, and how does it even work?The world loves 4G phones, tablets and other gizmos and we take the tech for granted...but when that...

What the f*ck is the Cloud, and how does it even work?Ah, The Cloud. It's such a useful bit of tech jargon isn't it? The kind that's casually throw...

A comprehensive study of refrigeration from its beginnings in America up to 1950, which shows its relation to our national development, records the...

An international community of specialists reinvented the propeller during the Aeronautical Revolution, a vibrant period of innovation in North Amer...

The Royal Society is one of the world's oldest and most prestigious scientific bodies, but what has it done in recent decades? Increasingly margina...

A fascinating history of the first attempts to computerize medical diagnosis.Beginning in the 1950s, interdisciplinary teams of physicians, enginee...

A leading voice in technology studies shares a collection of essential essays on the preservation of software and history of games.Since the early ...

Coal, gas and oil have been capitalism's main fuels since the industrial revolution. And yet, of all the fossil fuels ever consumed, more than half...

This compelling story of exploration charts and celebrates humankind in space, from Sputnik's launch in 1957 through the Apollo Moon landings and t...

Convergence is defined as the intertwinement of species or technologies. Tech- logical convergence, on the other hand, refers to a trend where a si...

In the late 1980s, the storied Italian automaker Bugatti positioned itself for a massive relaunch, defying widespread concerns and pinning its hope...

This stunning book is a glorious celebration of all things train and track!Packed with stunning photography, The Train Book catalogues the developm...

The American entrepreneurial spirit burns bright today. As of 2018, the US Patent & Trademark Office had granted its ten millionth patent. But ...