History of Engineering & Technology

This volume gives an account of the earlier work on which the English invention was founded, and the curious route by which it came to England. It discusses the way in which two such antagonistic men were driven into collaboration and sets out the history of the early telegraph lines, including work..

Women engineers have been in the public limelight for decades, yet we have surprisingly little historically grounded understanding of women in this field. This book considers the mechanisms of exclusion and inclusion of them...

Offers a historical account of the profound economic collapse of the Connecticut River Valley region, focusing on Bosch, its workers, and its union. This book describes how the US, in a ten-year period from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s, went from being the world's leading exporter of machine tools..

_x000D_ _x000D_ Today and Tomorrow Volume 12 Industry and the Machine reprints Hephaestus, or the Soul of the Machine,  Ouroborus, or the Mechanical Extension of Mankind, Artifex or the Future of Craftsmanship, and Wireless Possibilities which were originally published between 1924 and 1926. One of ..