History of the Future
In this wide-ranging survey, Bowler explores the phenomenon of futurology: predictions about the...
EAN: 9781107148734
Electric Century
The Electric Century examines how we got from then to now. The nineteenth is often described as...
EAN: 9783319511542
Harmonies of Disorder
This book presents the entire body of thought of Norbert Wiener (1894–1964), knowledge of which...
EAN: 9783319506562
Introduction to Automatic Digital Computers
Originally published in 1960, this textbook is aimed at those without advanced mathematical...
EAN: 9781316633304
Electronics Revolution
This book is about how electronics, computing, and telecommunications have profoundly changed our...
EAN: 9783319490878
Literature, Electricity and Politics 1740–1840
The book analyses attempts by both elite and popular practitioners of electricity to elucidate...
EAN: 9781137593146
Handbook of Science and Technology Studies
EAN: 9780262035682
Exploding Steamboats, Senate Debates, and Technical Reports
By 1838, over two thousand Americans had been killed and many hundreds injured by exploding steam...
EAN: 9780415404112
Power of Algorithms
This book will help readers design and construct algorithms to solve problems. It features many...
EAN: 9783662523667
Reinventing the Propeller
Reinventing the Propeller documents this story of a forgotten technology to reveal new...
EAN: 9781107142862
City and the Railway in the World from the Nineteenth Century to the Present
This volume explores the relationship between cities and railways over three centuries. Despite...
EAN: 9781472449610
Spaceplane HERMES
This Hermes spaceplane would give Europe its own human spaceflight capability for shuttling crews...
EAN: 9783319444703
Virtual Victorians
Exploring how scholars use digital resources to reconstruct the 19th century, this volume probes...
EAN: 9781349485307
Engineering Women: Re-visioning Women's Scientific Achievements and Impacts
Packed with fascinating biographical sketches of female engineers, this chronological history of...
EAN: 9783319407982
Human Mobility and Technological Transfer in the Prehistoric Mediterranean
This book presents key case studies for human and technological mobility across the eastern...
EAN: 9781107142435
Technology Security and National Power
In Technology Security and National Power, Stephen D
EAN: 9781412862431
Expeditions as Experiments
This collection focuses on different expeditions and their role in the process of knowledge...
EAN: 9781137581051
Science and Technology in World History, Volume 4
The history of science is not just a chronicle of technical achievements, but a human story of...
EAN: 9780786494033
Introduction to the History of Computing
Tracing the story of computing from Babylonian counting boards to smartphones, this inspiring...
EAN: 9783319331379
