History of Engineering & Technology

The Triumphs, Struggles, and Secrets of a Captains Life Richard Metz was a Great Lakes captain for 20 years. He experienced wild weather, close ca...

This book explores the transformation of the window during the Early Modern Period in Europe. Following the Italian Renaissance, new stylistic norm...

The truss adopts the rational configuration of the non-deformable triangle, optimizing the exploitation of the wooden members' resistance resources...

In 2013, a Dutch scientist unveiled the worlds first laboratory-created hamburger. Since then, the idea of producing meat, not from live animals bu...

During the years of the Polish People's Republic, Poles were cut off from the western world. Travel was restricted, as was access to outside cultur...

The ubiquity of social media has transformed the scope and scale of scholarly communication in the arts and humanities. The consequences of this ne...

By focusing on chromosomes, Heredity under the Microscope offers a new history of postwar human genetics. Today chromosomes are understood as macro...