Technology: General Issues

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...

For more than thirty years, the History of Cartography Project has charted the course for scholarship on cartography, bringing together research fr...

In most cases of civil engineering development, a range of alternative schemes meeting  project goals are feasible, so some form of evaluation must...

This book covers the whole range of technology, from the tools and skills of ordinary men and women to the instruments of astronomers and the equip...