History of Engineering & Technology

The Port of Los Angeles is all around us. Objects we use on a daily basis pass through it: furniture, apparel, electronics, automobiles, and much m...

This book offers a critique of a certain contemporary discourse in popular science that consists of (1) identifying the origins and therefore essen...

There are thousands of road bridges all over Britain with many being found around the coastline. In a first, transport historian Mark Chatterton ta...

In a fleeting fourteen year period, sandwiched between two world wars, Germanys Bauhaus school of art and design changed the face of modernity. Wit...

Quite simply, without engineers the U.S. Army would have been unable to fight World War II. The men of the Corps of Engineers, with the strength of...

The business of time explores the evolution of the global watch industry from the mid-nineteenth century to the present, offering a comprehensive h...

A timely collection of essays on the pressing possibilities and risks of gene-editing technology.Scientists and genetic engineers are becoming incr...

Explore Britain's remaining historic lines with railway expert Julian Holland. The essential guide to exploring Britains last remaining h...

When Vasa was raised in 1961 a lost world was revealed in astonishing detail. Among the most remarkable finds were the remains of the rigging. Norm...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is often discussed as something extraordinary, a dream--or a nightmare--that awakens metaphysical questions on human l...

This comprehensive book presents an analytical journey through the relationship between water and Latin American societies, offering an engineering...