History of Engineering & Technology

An extraordinary story of American can-do, an inside look at the building of the most dangerous aircraft carrier in the world, the John F. Kennedy....

Anyone interested in the rise of American corporate capitalism should look to the streets of Baltimore. There, in 1827, citizens launched a bold ne...

From the codebreakers and problem solvers, to the engineers, mathematicians and other problem-solvers what the secret world can teach...

From the codebreakers and problem solvers, to the engineers, mathematicians and other problem-solvers what the secret world can teach...

From bestselling author and British astronaut Tim Peake, an inspirational human history of space travel, from the Apollo missions to our future for...

Dont Miss the Apple TV+ Docuseries Streaming Now!This book is as engrossing as anything by Agatha Christie, as unsettling as a novel by Stephen Kin...

We already know how much of our data is collected and used to profile and target us. The real question is why, k...

In the first cultural and political history of the Russian nuclear age, Paul Josephson describes the rise of nuclear physics in the USSR, the enthu...

The racersan Italian prince and his chauffeur, a French racing driver, a con man, and several rival journalistsbattle over steep inclines, through ...

A spectacular visual history of video games from 1958 to the present. In the past 65 years, video games have evolved from primitive computer-lab ex...

From facial recognitioncapable of checking people into flights or identifying undocumented residentsto automated decision systems that inform who g...

Fifty years ago, a UCLA computer science professor and his student sent the first electronic message over a network called ARPANET, a predecessor t...

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring This lively Very Short Introduction reviews the central events, machines, and people that fe...

Fifty years ago, a UCLA computer science professor and his student sent the first electronic message over a network called ARPANET, a predecessor t...