History of Engineering & Technology

War. Fast Food. Pornography. Pervasive in our culture, these three obsessions may seem to represent the worst qualities of humankind. But what have...

This is the latest in the bestselling Sterling Milestones series. It provides a detailed look at 250 milestones in the discipline of Engineering. I...

A Simpler Life approaches the developing field of synthetic biology by focusing on the experimental and institutional lives of practitioners in two...

British Opencast Coal is an illustrated history of coal mining by surface methods from 1942 to 1985. Written by Keith Haddock, a leading authority ...

Beloved American hero Buzz Aldrin reflects on the wisdom, guiding principles, and irreverent anecdotes he's gathered through his event-filled life ...

'Celebrates human cognitive diversity, and is rich with empathy and psychological insight' Steven Pinker 'Bold, intriguing, profound' Jay Elwes, Sp...

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

Pliny''s World offers readers a translation of the Natural History''s opening books unprecedented for its completeness, accuracy and accessibility....

The fascinating story of how NASA sent humans to explore outer space, told through a treasure trove of documents from the NASA archivesAmong all th...

UPIC, which stands for Unite Polyagogique Informatique: As technical as this term may seem at first, this apparatus is magical. For it is about not...

Few can claim to affect the lives of every person in every community, but that is the legacy of local government engineers. Many saw service in bot...