Technology: General Issues

Shows why plastics, in aggregate, have become a toxin to humans, wildlife, and the planet, and proposes novel solutions that involve neither tradit...

Making the Palace Machine Work: Mobilizing People, Objects, and Nature in the Qing Empire brings the studies of institutions, labour, and material ...

For decades, leadership in technological innovation has sustained U.S. power worldwide. Today, however, processes that undergird innovation increas...

Painting with Fire shows how experiments with chemicals known to change visibly over the course of time transformed British pictorial arts of the l...

What's stopping you from doing the best work of your life?The way we work is broken. It takes forever to get anything done. Meetings and emails are...

On January 5, 1845, the Prussian Cultural Minister received a request by a group of six young men to form a new Physical Society in Berlin. In fiel...

In 1968 a team of scientists and engineers from RCA announced the creation of a new form of electronic display that relied upon an obscure set of m...

The City of Light. For many, these four words instantly conjure late nineteenth-century Paris and the garish colors of Toulouse-Lautrec's iconic po...

Long before karaoke’s ubiquity and the rise of global brands such as Sony, Japan was a place where new audio technologies found eager users and con...

How did intricately detailed sixteenth-century maps reveal the start of the Atlantic World?Beginning around 1500, in the decades following Columbus...

The telephone used to be a luxury item. Today, 95% of Americans have telephone service, and many carry their phones wherever they go. Few invention...

This study explores the relationship between humans and machines during an age when technology became increasingly domesticated and accepted as an ...

What do anthrax protection, golf clubs, and cordless power tools have in common? Each was invented or improved with technology first developed for ...

This comprehensive chronology of the automobile covers its engineering as well as the social, cultural, and political impact of the car from the in...

The Industrial Revolution changed the course of American history, accelerated the American economy, and affected the way people lived. This ready-r...

The importance of technology in our day to day lives is something that few people would deny. At home and in the office, in business and in politic...

Technology and U.S. global competitiveness is a major concern today, and yet there is no study that surveys the key issues describing federal and s...

A sweeping overview of the American peasantry: the largely sharecrop cultivators who, in Seavoy's analysis, rejected the labor norms of commercial ...

On August 6 and August 9, 1945, the world became aware of the destructiveness of nuclear energy when the U.S. Army Air Corps dropped atomic bombs o...

Written from both the librarian's and scientist's point of view, this book is a comprehensive guide to conducting searches of scientific, agricultu...

'A stunningly good and surely definitive biography of one of the most fascinating British engineers ever to have lived' JAMES HOLLANDBarnes Wallis ...