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Offers an introduction to the history of the toilet, tracing its development from the primitive - and very smelly - privy maiden to a one-piece, all-ceramic WC.

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Follows the service of the Crusader from its launch in 1957, throughout the Cuban missile crisis and the Vietnam War. The comprehensive text includes pilots explainng the tactics used in fighter, bomber and recce sorties and there are detailed spreads on uniforms worn by RF-8 pilots.

(Paperback)

This collection explores how technologies become forms of power, how people embed their authority in technological systems, and how the machines and the knowledge that make up technical systems strengthen or reshape social, political, and cultural power.

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How the history of technology emerged as a coherent intellectual discipline.

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The history of the grid, the world's largest interconnected power machine that is North America's electricity infrastructure.

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This book examines the broad range of social and intellectual responses to technology in the first four decades of this century, and suggests that these responses set the terms that continue to govern contemporary debates.

(Paperback, anniversary edition)

An anniversary edition of an influential book that introduced a groundbreaking approach to the study of science, technology, and society.

(Hardback)

This work analyzes the evolution of the U.S. strategic air force from 1945 to 1955.

(Hardback)

This text tells the story of how Perry M. Collins, an American entrepreneur in the 1850s, helped to deploy a "telegraph army" to British Columbia, modern day Alaska and Siberia in an attempt to connect the world with overground telegraph poles.

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An account of technology in Africa from an African perspective, examining hunting in Zimbabwe as an example of an innovative mobile workspace.

(Hardback)

(Paperback)

The village pump was once the focal point of rural life, providing the only water supply to communities and offering a place in town squares and village greens for people to come together. This book focuses on the history of the village pump, exploring the different designs that existed and shedding light on the communities that relied upon them.

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The convergence of military strategy and mathematics in war games, from medieval to modern times.

(Hardback)

This book traces the political genealogy of railways from their introduction in the heyday of railway imperialism to their transformation into a tool for both Chinese nation making and furthering China's global ambition.

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The Canal du Midi, which threads through southwestern France and links the Atlantic to the Mediterranean, was an astonishing feat of seventeenth-century engineering--in fact, it was technically impossible according to the standards of its day. Impossible Engineering takes an insightful and entertaining look at the mystery of its success as well as

(Paperback, 16th edition)

A fascinating compendium of early-20th-century mechanical devices, this expansive work ranges from basic levers to complex machinery. More than 1,800 engravings include simple illustrations and detailed cross-sections.

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From the best-selling author of THE DINOSAUR HUNTERS and THE LOST KING OF FRANCE comes the story of how our modern world was forged in rivets, grease and steam; in blood, sweat and human imagination.

(Paperback, Revised ed.)

Based on the immense, authoritative scholarship of the late Joseph Needham, the world's foremost scholar of Chinese science, this revised full-color illustrated edition brings to life the spirit and excitement of the unparalleled achievements of ancient China--with one hundred "firsts" in the fields of agriculture, astronomy, engineering, mathematics, medicine, music, technology, and warfare.

(Hardback)

"With all the bitterness and drama of the race between Ford, Dodge, and General Motors, Tractor Wars is the untold story of industry stalwarts and disruptors, inventors, and administrators racing to invent modern agriculture-a power farming revolution that would usher in a whole new world"--

(Hardback)

(Paperback)

In this unique book, author Julian Edgar takes you around the world to see an astonishing series of engineering marvels. Through over 170 original photos, accompanied by a thoroughly researched text, you'll experience the first rocket range, the fastest cars, and the awesome technology of the Cold War.