Technology: General Issues

An engrossing look at the history and importance of a centuries-old but still unanswered math problemFor centuries, mathematicians the world over h...

Entertaining and engrossing Sean Carroll Press the snooze button on your alarm once too often and you soon remember the importance of good timekee...

An essential introduction to the surprisingly long history of the electric car, from the early pioneers, through to the first commercially viable m...

While most know Thomas Edison for his invention of the light bulb, his counterpart, George Westinghouse, is too often overlooked. Westinghouse, ...

Many of the best-known British authors of the 1800s were fascinated by the science and technology of their era. Dickens included spontaneous hum...

Sir Nigel Thompson walked to school around the bomb craters of the London Blitzit made him want to build things, rather than knock them down. After...

From Homer Hickam, the author of the #1 bestselling Rocket Boys adapted into the beloved film October Sky, comes this astonishing memoir of high ad...

The advent of railways in Britain was a fundamental part of its economic and social revolution in the 19th century, with technical advances that we...