History of Engineering & Technology

An inspirational, uplifting, and life-affirming memoir about passion, resilience and living life to the fullest, from Dr. Dave Williams, one of Can...

Over the past two million years that human species have inhabited the Planet Earth they have distinguished themselves by their ability to make and ...

Ackerman is justly celebrated for her unique insight into the natural world and our place in it. In this landmark book, she confronts the unprecede...

Nominated for the CWA Dagger Award 2023 A wonderful book - Guardian Truth, murder and the...

Many of the best-known British authors of the 1800s were fascinated by the science and technology of their era. Dickens included spontaneous hum...

For each generation there is a machine, often a vehicle, which is prized for enormously more than its mechanical purpose. The Comet was one such; f...

We are all familiar with the digital revolution which has swept across the developed world in recent years. It has ushered in an age of smartphones...

In Jaguar from the Shop Floor, Brian Martin tells the story of his life as a long-time employee at Jaguar, giving a first-hand account of the devel...

'The book is a house of wonders' The New York Times'Steven Johnson is the Darwin of technology' Walter Issacson, author of Steve JobsWhat connects ...

In his time Isambard Kingdom Brunel was the world's greatest engineer. His list of achievements is truly breathtaking: the Thames Tunnel, the first...

Information is power. For more than five hundred years the success or failure of nations has been determined by a country''s ability to acquire kno...

The collision of new technologies, changing business strategies, and innovative storytelling that produced a new golden age of TV. Cable televis...

For centuries lime was an essential ingredient in many aspects of life and work - such as farming, building and manufacturing - and the kilns in wh...

21 February 1989. Three men fly into Moscow, representing software giants from Britain, America, and Japan. Each of them is determined to undercut ...

The worlds tech giants are at the centre of controversies over fake news, free speech and hate speech on platforms where influence is bought and so...

Weather control. Juxtaposing those two words is enough to raise eyebrows in a world where even the best weather models still fail to nail every for...

A prominent member of a flourishing scientific and literary community, William Nicholson, author, patent agent and civil engineer, founded a widely...

The technological capabilities of the ancient world have long fascinated scholars and the general public alike, though scholarly debate has often s...