History of Engineering & Technology

A Next Big Idea Club Must Read for December 2023 As all aspects of our social and informational lives increasingly migrate online, the line between...

Redefines modern lyric poetry at the intersection of literary and media studies.In The Lyre Book, Matthew Kilbane urges literary scholars to consid...

This is the third and final book about the North American B-25 Mitchell in service. The Volumes 1 and 2 of Mitchell Masterpieces dealt with the B-2...

Technology is and has always been the subject of critical debate. This wide-ranging, engaging book examines the ideas of Anglo-Canadian theorists w...

Long before karaokes ubiquity and the rise of global brands such as Sony, Japan was a place where new audio technologies found eager users and cont...

A revealing genealogy of image-recognition techniques and technologies  Todays most advanced neural networks and sophisticated image-analysis metho...

A concise, accessible introduction to robots, what they can do, what they can't, and what their increasing encroachment into our lives might mean f...

The world is undergoing a profound set of digital disruptions that are changing the nature of how governments counter dissent and assert control ov...

In this fascinating book, Graham Matthews takes the reader through the history of the development and use of chemicals for control of pests, weeds,...

A riveting introduction to the complex and evolving field of geospatial intelligence. Although geospatial intelligence is a term of recent origin,...

By the close of the eighteenth century, learning to read and write became closely associated with learning about the material world, and a vast ar...

This book deconstructs the public performance of technological innovation and imagined modernity in relation to the home technologies market in lat...

At the end of the Second World War, Germany lay at the mercy of its occupiers, all of whom launched programmes of scientific and technological expl...

The perfect antidote to your digital diet, this is a delightful exploration of analogue product design that crosses categories and generations, cel...

Telecommunications History & Policy into the 21st Century provides a succinct overview of the telecommunications environment and the factors th...