History of Engineering & Technology

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 Story of Mini is a pocket-sized and beautifully illustrated celebration of the iconic car.For more than 60 years, the Mini has been one of the ...

Pockets, matches, spectacles, postage stamps. Whether it's the stitches that hold our clothes together or the syringes that deliver life-saving vac...

Whether in medicine, money, or love, technologies powered by forms of artificial intelligence are playing an increasingly prominent role in our liv...

From drones to satellites, missile defense systems to cyber warfare, Israel is leading the world when it comes to new technology being deployed on ...

In modern life, technology is everywhere. Yet as a concept, technology is a mess. In popular discourse, technology is little more than the latest d...

Examples of enduring feats of civil engineering endeavour can be seen around the world's seas and waterways, from the SS Great Britain to the Panam...

A new selection in the Anatomy of the Ship series, Tudor Warship Mary Rose is a unique insight into the architecture and construction of the iconic...

Between 1906 and 1920 the Clydebank shipyard of John Brown & Sons built five battlecruisers, each one bigger than the last, culminating in the ...

From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, a revealing new portrait of Albert Einstein, the worlds first scientific superstarWith graceful lucidity...

Casting the Nets provides an unparalleled insight into the great digital transformation of Britain''s communications networks over the period 1984-...

Technology's most intriguing stories are the tales of what might have been, those seemingly insignificant incidents that would have had the largest...