History of Engineering & Technology

Benjamin Franklin was serious when he suggested the colonists arm themselves with the longbow. The American colonies were not logistically prepared...

Technology and consumerism are two characteristic phenomena in the history medicine and healthcare, yet the connections between them are rarely exp...

From the telegraph and telephone in the 1800s to the internet and social media in our own day, the public has welcomed new communication systems. W...

This book takes the technological revolution and industrial changes as the background. The timeline uses the timeline to explain the path of change...

The new millennium. The Year 2000. Beyond Mayan prophecies, a more immediate danger loomed: Two-digit year date fields had been used by software pr...

Contemporary developments in communications technologies have overturned key aspects of the global political system and transformed the media lands...

By the end of the nineteenth century, Europeans had come to see the Alps as the ideal place to fashion an alternative to the era's dominant energy ...

By the end of the nineteenth century, Europeans had come to see the Alps as the ideal place to fashion an alternative to the era's dominant energy ...

A fascinating history of how the automotive industry and consumers battled to define what women wanted in a car.Since the commercial introduction o...

This book collects the insights from the researchers of International Schumpeter Society and focuses on the interaction of technology development a...

In 1998 Rolls-Royce celebrated the 60th anniversary of the opening of its Crewe factory, the home of the company's car production since World War I...

This collection of essays reflects the author's decades-long dedication to studying the interplay between mechanics and architecture. It explores h...