Technology: General Issues

We think of the Stephensons and Brunel as the fathers of the railways, and their Liverpool and Manchester and Great Western Railways as the prototy...

The international adventures of a consulting engineer working for Balfour Beatty in the 1920s and 30s and life in England between the Wars. Retur...

Although ancient farmers used draft animals for plowing, the heavy work of harvesting fell to human hands, using sickle and scythe. Change came in...

Today, Virtual reality is used not only for games, since programs with emulation of attraction cinema, museums, etc. have appeared. With this devel...

Women remain woefully underrepresented in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). Negative stereotypes about women in these fields are...

In 1948, just weeks before his best friend, marine biologist Ed Ricketts died, John Steinbeck wrote of Ricketts process of discovery, noting that a...

Have you got any ideas on how to make a better banknote?In the late 1960s, the detection of counterfeit banknotes and the rise of new photographic ...

During the first fifty years of the twentieth century, ham radio went from being an experiment to virtually an art form. Because of the few governm...

In Scientific Americans, Susan Branson explores the place of science and technology in American efforts to achieve cultural independence from Europ...

This book offers a clear and interdisciplinary introduction to the structural and scattering properties of complex photonic media, focusing on dete...

For centuries lime was an essential ingredient in many aspects of life and work - such as farming, building and manufacturing - and the kilns in wh...

As we approach a great turning point in history when technology is poised to redefine what it means to be human, The Fourth Age offers fascinating ...

This one-of-a-kind resource covers the saddleries of Montana Territory and State over the period from approximately the 1860s through 1940. Learn a...

Can Science and Technology Save China? assesses the intimate connections between science and society in China, offering an in-depth look at how an ...

Presenting the history of the cellular phone from its beginnings in the 1940s to the present, this book explains the fundamental concepts involved ...

Throughout history, the need to cross the changing British landscape has always driven innovation. Natural valleys, rivers and mountainous features...

This book provides for the first time a complete look at all of Isambard Kingdom Brunels contributions to the great age of steamship design. From m...