History of Engineering and Technology de Ervan G. Garrison

History of Engineering and Technology: Artful Methods

Ervan G. Garrison

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:

New contributions on

Airships and zeppelins

Highways and economics

Early hydroelectricity

Chemical engineering

Technology and history

Brunel and the Royal Navy

Stealth and the submarine

Computer history

Deepwater engineering

Science fiction and the evolution of modern engineering

Art and engineering

Electric motors, radio, and batteries

Expansion of these existing chapters

Mining and the Location of Minerals

Water Distribution: Qanots to Acequias

Biomedical Engineering

Communication Engineering: Shannon to Satellites

Personalities and the Auto: Ford and Ferrari

Failures in Engineering: Chernobyl, Titanic, Tacoma Narrows, Challenger

Cold Fusion, Electric Cars, and Other "Humbug"

This introductory book presents the persons, concepts, and events that made salient contributions to the engineering narrative, reporting a compelling story spanning millennia and encouraging a sense of history for its readers.

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Cuprins

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

Descriere

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.