Technology: General Issues

The genesis of the digital idea and why it transformed civilizationA few short decades ago, we were informed by the smooth signals of analog televi...

The nanotechnology revolution that will transform human health and longevityNano Comes to Life opens a window onto the nanoscalethe infinitesimal r...

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

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 ...

Charge up that drill, fire up your soldering iron, and get ready to hack! Starting with a robust introduction to basic yet essential maker skills a...

Zero to Maker is part memoir and part how-to guidebook for anyone who is having thoughts like these: I feel like all I can do is write emails. I ...

Mark Katz surveys the age-old interrelationship between music and technology, from prehistoric musical instruments to today's digital playback devi...

The nanotechnology revolution that will transform human health and longevityNano Comes to Life opens a window onto the nanoscalethe infinitesimal r...

Dr Boucher describes Brindleys engineering pupils as a college of engineers, among them talented individuals such as Hugh Henshall, Thomas Dadford,...

Until the early part of the 18th century life for the majority of Britons had not changed greatly since the Middle Ages, but then in the space of 3...

The String Book opens with a note about an 8,000-year-old piece of string that was found at a Stone Age settlement in England, about which the edit...

This fascinating book explores the development of locomotives over the course of fifty years. From Richard Trevithick''s first experimental road en...

Ross Lovegrove is an internationally renowned designer and visionary, whose works are celebrated as the new aesthetic expression of the twenty-fir...

We are all familiar with the digital revolution which has swept across the developed world in recent years. It has ushered in an age of smartphones...

I never knew a lot about my grandparents and often wish that I had asked more questions about their lives, and that''s why I have written this shor...

Providing detailed analysis of the thermal comfort assessment of clothing as the basis for developing standards, this book discusses the thermal pr...

The story of writing in the digital age is every bit as messy as the ink-stained rags that littered the floor of Gutenbergs print shop or the hot m...

Women have won their political independence. Now is the time for them to achieve their economic freedom too.This was the great rallying cry of the ...

From as early as the beginning of the nineteenth century, Britain was at the forefront of powered flight. Across the country many places became cen...

The partnership of Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace was one that would change science forever. They were an unlikely pair one the professor son of...