David S. Roh, Clare Kim, Betsy Huang, Greta Aiyu Niu, Christopher T. Fan, Justin Battin, Agnieszka Kiejziewicz, Greta A. Niu, Edmond Chang, Anna Romina Guevarra...
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: BBC Books, ISBN-13: 9781785949807)
Accompanying the 4-part documentary series from multi-award-winning filmmaker, James Bluemel. Its been 63 years since Yuri Gagarin became the first human to ever go into space. Since then, only 676 people have followed him up there. But n...Loe edasi...
As industrialization began to evolve in the early nineteenth century, engineers were urgently needed to integrate science into the field of construction. They needed to learn how to innovate and understand the new materialiron. Industrializing Iron...Loe edasi...
As industrialization began to evolve in the early nineteenth century, engineers were urgently needed to integrate science into the field of construction. They needed to learn how to innovate and understand the new materialiron. Industrializing Iron...Loe edasi...
What does it mean to be human in an age of rapid technological advancement? Are we on the brink of transcending our biological limitations, or are we losing touch...Loe edasi...
From the first steam trains to the high-speed bullet trains of today, Rise of the Railway tells the hidden stories of railway history the inspired engineering, technical ingenuity, and sheer determination that forged the worlds railways. ...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Sep-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Island Press, ISBN-13: 9781642833652)
In the nineteenth century, Manhattan’s streets were so choked with pedestrians, horses, vehicles, and vendors that a trip from City Hall to Central Park could take hours. Alfred Beach had the perfect solution: build a giant pneumatic tube underneath...Loe edasi...
This book is the result of a decade of rigorous study on the interplay between the Chinese railway system and national social progress. It examines the reform, opening up, innovation, and development of Chinese railways over the past 40 years....Loe edasi...
Conventional aircraft today are propelled by the action of propellers or jets, and powered by the internal combustion of petroleum fuels in piston, turboprop or jet engines. But other power sources, powerplants, and propulsion devices, for air...Loe edasi...
Discover how German cars have shaped the world of design, innovation, and culture across a century of automotive excellence. German automotive design has been a defining force in shaping the cultural and industrial landscapes of the 20th and...Loe edasi...
From internationally-bestselling author and journalist Andrew Smith, an immersive, alarming, sharp-eyed journey into the bizarre world of computer code, told through his sometimes painful, often amusing attempt to become a coder himself...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 04-Sep-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198904045)
Using a plethora of previously unpublished sources, this book analyses the policymaking and policy implementation in the education of British engineers and technologists between 1944-1994. The notion that Britain was losing its internati...Loe edasi...
This book presents a systematic discussion of the history of Chinese printing technology, encompassing the origins and evolution of writing, the invention and refinement of papermaking techniques, an...Loe edasi...
A humanist manifesto for the age of AIArtificial intelligence may be the most transformative technology of our time. As AI’s power grows, so does the need to figure out what—and who—this technology is really for. AI Needs You...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Sep-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: OUP India, ISBN-13: 9780197835319)
Humanity has always craved, and feared, information. Alicia Wanless offers a fresh understanding of the relationship between people, technology and knowledge, today and throughout history. Depending on the news you read, new tools like AI wil...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-Aug-2025, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: America Through Time, ISBN-13: 9781634995320)
The story of the role played by streetcars in the development of Northeast Portland begins in 1888, when rails were laid northward through virgin timber and bottomland towards the Columbia River. Tracks soon also extended eastward along a prehistoric...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Aug-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Springer International Publishing AG, ISBN-13: 9783031879777)
This monograph is the first comprehensive historical overview of the global synthetic ammonia industry, highlighting its critical role in fixing nitrogen from the air in order to produce the fertilizers that support a significant portion of the wo...Loe edasi...
Starting with hands, abacus, and slide rule, humans have always reached for tools to simplify math. Pocket-sized calculators ushered in modern mathematics, helped build the atomic bomb, took us to the bottom of the ocean, and accompanied us to the mo...Loe edasi...
