History of engineering & technology books

Within a broader frame, they speak to the double-edged nature of modern life.  Read More >>

Automating Linguistics offers an in-depth study of the history of the mathematisation and automation of the sciences...  Read More >>

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In 1886, five men met at San Francisco's luxurious Baldwin Hotel to discuss a most profitable business: opium smuggling....  Read More >>

"""A sweeping and lively history of one of the most dramatic stories never told--of the greatest railroad war of...  Read More >>

A riveting and inspiring air-sea ordeal at the height of the Cold War!  Read More >>

A riveting and inspiring air-sea ordeal at the height of the Cold War!  Read More >>

A riveting and inspiring air-sea ordeal at the height of the Cold War!  Read More >>

"""Originally published as How innovation works: serendipity, energy and the saving of time in Great Britain in...  Read More >>

"""[A] well-researched and splendidly written chronicle of the Jamestown, its captain, and an Irish priest who ministered...  Read More >>

"""A memoir ... revealing his relationship with renowned physicist Stephen Hawking as both a fellow scientist and...  Read More >>

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"This book does not pretend to be a corporate history and certainly not the author's personal autobiography. Rather...  Read More >>

Cuba is a paradise for the classic car buff. It is the world's largest rolling car museum of automobiles spanning...  Read More >>

"An immersive account of a tragedy at sea whose repercussions haunt its survivors to this day, lauded by New York...  Read More >>

Sally Ride, the first American woman to go to space, once said that she didn't set out to be a role model, but after...  Read More >>

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James Bradley (1693-1762) was an English astronomer and priest who served as Astronomer Royal from 1742. He is best...  Read More >>

The High-Altitude Memoirs of a Lifelong Flight Attendant... Have you ever wondered what goes on behind the scenes...  Read More >>

The Adventure of a Lifetime Obsessions Die Hard is the story of Ed Culberson's determination to fulfill his dream....  Read More >>

During the 1880s, Chesapeake Bay boatbuilders began constructing small wooden open boats, referred to as deadrise...  Read More >>

In West with the Night Beryl Markham chronicles her unconventional, free-spirited girlhood in Kenya and her adventures...  Read More >>

Next, the chapters turn to the missions when European astronauts flew to Russian space stations, the Soyuz rocket...  Read More >>