History of Engineering & Technology

Birthing the Computer: From Relays to Vacuum Tubes is the first in a multi-volume series on historical computing machines. This series will span th...

This is the story of how for more than a hundred years steam power played a vital role in the development of road transport. It all began with tent...

World-leading natural and social scientists shed light on their discoveries and lives in conversation with an award-winning science writer. When a...

Science, medicine, and technology have become increasingly important to the average individual in modern society. The importance of these three fie...

An engrossing origin story for the personal computershowing how the Apple IIs software helped a machine transcend from hobbyists plaything to essen...

A compelling biography of Mark Weiser, a pioneering innovator whose legacy looms over the tech industrys quest to connect everythingand who hoped f...

Lose yourself in the vast sewer networks that lie beneath the worlds great cities past and present. Let detailed archival plans, maps and photogra...

The definitive story of a game so great, even the Cold War couldn't stop itTetris is perhaps the most instantly recognizable, popular video game ev...

Oh, the humanity! Radio reporter Herbert Morrison's words on witnessing the destruction of the Hindenburg are etched in our collective memory. Ye...

ColdFusion's New Thinking About the Future of Technology and ScienceDagogo has the uncanny ability to take fascinating topics and somehow make them...

Samuel Smiles published Lives of the Engineers in 1862. The noted biographer presented his engineers as heroic progress makers who conquered nature...