Engineering in History

by Arthur Burr Darling, Sidney Whithington, Richard Shelton Kirby, et al.

Book Overview

Broad, nontechnical survey offers fascinating coverage of history's major technological advances: food-producing revolution, appearance of urban society, birth of Greek science, revolution in power, steam and the Industrial Revolution, electricity and the beginnings of applied science, and the age of automatic control. 181 illustrations. "Excellent." -- Isis.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0486264122
• ISBN13: 9780486264127
• Release Date: August 1990
• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Length: 544 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.4" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

Words of the equestrian

This book does a fantastic job of explaining the history of Engineering, and how it affected the civilizations that used it.