History of Engineering & Technology

Although they entered the world as pure science fiction, robots are now very much a fact of everyday life. Whether a space-age cyborg, a chess-play...

The early years of film were dominated by competition between inventors in America and France, especially Thomas Edison and the Lumiere brothers . ...

On a moonless night in January 1991, a dozen U.S. aircraft appeared in the skies over Baghdad. To the Iraqi air defenses, the planes seemed to come...

One of the preeminent natural philosophers of the Enlightenment, Benjamin Thompson started out as a farm boy with a practical turn of mind. His ...

In 1909 Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, on his way back to South Africa from London, wrote his now celebrated tract Hind Swaraj, laying out his vision ...

Everyday Technology is a pioneering account of how small machines and consumer goods that originated in Europe and North America became objects of ...

This volume brings together eight essays that address the result of a research project involving a group of international scholars. It explores a l...