History of Engineering and Technology: Artful Methods

By Ervan G. Garrison

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 084939810X
• ISBN13: 9780849398100
• Release Date: June 1998
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.3" x 10.3"