Technology: General Issues

From historical figures such as Marie Curie to contemporaries such as Steve Jobs, a handful of innovators have changed the world. What made them so...

The changing relationships between science and industry in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, illustrated by the career of the fat...

In this compilation, the authors discuss a synergistic enhancement of electron and thermal conductivities of epoxy-based composites (CMs) with diff...

Gustave Eiffel was the man behind the landmark that became the symbol par excellence of Paris and so the dominant image of France around the world....

The volume explores the emerging science of nanotechnology which deals with the understanding of the fundamental physics, chemistry, biology, mater...

A technology expert describes the ever-increasing role of artificial intelligence in weapons development, the ethical dilemmas these weapons pose, ...

The relatively short period during which BOAC existed, 1940 to 1974, coincided with what is sometimes known as the Golden Age of Flying. Not so muc...

Did you know that the machine used to drill tunnels for the first underground railway in England was invented by a South African, or that the first...

Between 1900 and 1950, Americans built the most powerful steam locomotives of all timeenormous engines that powered a colossal industry. They were ...

This text book on Reliability and Maintenance Engineering has been prepared considering the syllabuses of all technical universities for their BE a...