History of Engineering and Technology

This book presents an illustrated history of engineering technology from the Stone Age to the Nuclear Age. It introduces the people, ideas, and events that contributed to the engineering narrative, delivering a compelling story that spans the millennia. This edition includes additional information on materials science and transportation, oceanic, biomedical, and computer engineering. New contributions address science fiction and the evolution of modern engineering, highways and economics, early hydroelectricity and much more. It examines a number of important theoretical developments and includes an expanded index, endnotes that furnish ready citation information, and many formulae and equations.

Presents an history of engineering technology from the Stone Age to the Nuclear Age. This work includes information on materials science and transportation, oceanic, biomedical, and computer engineering. It examines theoretical developments and includes an index, endnotes that furnish ready citation information, and many formulae and equations.

Autorentext
Ervan G. Garrison

Klappentext
History of Engineering and Technology provides an illustrated history of engineered technology from the Stone Age to the Nuclear Age. Examining important areas of engineering and technology, this second edition contains: Key Features * Provides new material on transportation engineering, oceanic engineering, materials science, and computer engineering * Contains more than 100 illustrations * Presents a thorough examination of essential theoretical developments * Expands previous material on biomedical engineering * Includes an expanded index for the second edition, end notes providing ready citation information, as well as formulae and equations TOC:The Earliest Builders.- Early Empires and the Conquest of Materials.- Classical Antiquity: The Greeks.- Rome - The Engineering of War and Cities.- Ancient Power and Metallurgy.- Byzantine and Islamic Engineering - Picking Up a Fallen Torch.- Middle Ages - Masters of Stone.- Renaissance.- 17th and 18th Centuries.- The Advent of Steam and Mechanical Engineering.- Sanitary and Hydraulic Engineering.- 20th Century Engineering: Part 1.- 20th Century Engineering: Part 2.- New Technology and the Future.- Bibliography.- Index.

Inhalt
The Earliest Builders, Early Empires and the Conquest of Materials, Classical Antiquity: The Greeks, Rome - The Engineering of War and Cities, Ancient Power and Metallurgy, Byzantine and Islamic Engineering - Picking Up a Fallen Torch, Middle Ages - Masters of Stone, Renaissance, 17th and 18th Centuries, The Advent of Steam and Mechanical Engineering, Sanitary and Hydraulic Engineering, 20th Century Engineering: Part 1, 20th Century Engineering: Part 2, New Technology and the Future, Bibliography, Index

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