Thema Technikgeschichte – alle Bücher

Braun erleben

Das außergewöhnliche Design der Firma Braun aus vielfältiger Sicht: Sammler und Designbegeisterte, Kunstwissenschaftler, Braun-Mitarbeiter und Kuratoren berichten in zwanzig Textbeiträgen über ihre Leiden…

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Gute Fahrt! 2026

Kein Weg war ihm je zu weit oder zu steil, sein Boxermotor unter der Heckklappe schuftete fast immer ohne zu klagen. Daher wundert es wenig, dass er zur Marathonmaschine avancierte und sich einen glänzend…

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Peter Adey,
Luft

Luft umgibt und durchdringt alles Leben auf der Erde. Selten jedoch werden wir bewusst an ihre Bedeutung und ihre unglaublichen Eigenschaften erinnert. Vor etwa 300 Millionen Jahren, im Karbonzeitalter de…

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Roma Agrawal,
Nägel mit Köpfen

Die sieben Dinge, die unsere Welt prägen - ein inspirierender Blick auf die faszinierenden Geschichten hinter Nagel, Faden, Rad, Linse, Magnet, Feder und PumpeOhne die antike Pumpe keine Herz-Lungen-Masch…

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Georg Agricola
De Re Metallica Libri XII

Georg Agricola gilt als Begründer der wissenschaftlichen Behandlung der Mineralogie und Bergbaukunde und zählt zu den wichtigsten Persönlichkeiten der Technik-Geschichte.Sein großes Vermächtnis für den Be…

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Mark Aldrich
Rise and Fall of King Coal

A history of the dynamic role of coal in the energy landscape of the United States during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In The Rise and Fall of King Coal, Mark Aldrich explores the pivotal role …

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David Alff
The Northeast Corridor

All aboard for the first comprehensive history of the hard-working and wildly influential Northeast Corridor.Traversed by thousands of trains and millions of riders, the Northeast Corridor might be Americ…

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William Aspray, David Hemmendinger
The Making and Meanings of a Computing Reference Work

SpringerBriefs in History of Computing

This manuscript is about an artifact, the Encyclopedia of Computer Science (ECS). From the time that computer science was mature enough to have its own reference book until printed reference books began t…

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Helaine Becker,
Smart Machines

★**"A must-buy for libraries where patrons are actively using AI tools or considering AI-related careers, this is equally valuable for those developing instruction on research methodologies, digital …

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Roland Betancourt
Disneyland and the Rise of Automation

A history of the engineering marvels behind one of America's most innovative and beloved entertainment experiencesWhen Disneyland opened to the public in 1955, it demystified the hidden world of factory a…

lieferbar ab 21.4.2026.

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James Bluemel
Once Upon a Time in Space

BBC Books

Featuring stunning full-colour photography from both personal collections of astronauts and NASA's archives, the human story of space is told through intimate and powerful testimonies from the astronauts,…

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Ulf Bossel
Fuel Cells

The book presents the scientific history of the early days of fuel cells (1838 to 1845). The fuel cell effect was discovered by the Swiss scientist Christian Friedrich Schoenbein. while the English lawyer…

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Eileen Buckholtz
Queens of Code

The stories of America's unsung computing women, brought out of the shadows and into their rightful place in the history of technology.The dearth of women in our histories of technology cannot be overstat…

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Suryakanthie Chetty
Science and Technology in South Africa, 1939-1946

Introduction.- 2. 'Brain-waves to beat Hitler': Science, Technology and Invention.- 3. 'Strange and wondrous things': Military Technology on Show.- 4. From Creation to Credit: Major Du Toit and the Invent…

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Robert Ciesla
The Book of Chatbots

Primitive software chatbots emerged in the 1960s, evolving swiftly through the decades and becoming able to provide engaging human-to-computer interactions sometime in the 1990s. Today, conversational tec…

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Sarah Ciston, David M Berry, Anthony C Hay, Mark C Marino
Inventing Eliza

How the original ELIZA chatbot transformed ideas about AI and society's response to them.As we reach the 60th anniversary of ELIZA's public debut, Inventing ELIZA offers the first comprehensive critical a…

lieferbar ab 9.6.2026.

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Alica-Nana Citron
Spinning the Cosmos

The epistemological concept of volvelles.- The knowledge of the volvelles.- History of the volvelles.- De Sphaera editions.- Conclusion.

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Pamela Elizabeth Clark
Extreme Exploration

Chapter 1: Overview: The Apollo Lunar Surface Expedi-tionary Approach.- Chapter 2: The Challenge: Constraints and Requirements of Extreme Exploration.- Chapter 3: The Context: Robotic Precursors Ranger, S…

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Mark Coeckelbergh
Artificial Religion

How AI is shaped by Western religious culture and universal existential aspirations---and why we think we need it in the first place.Artificial Religion argues that to fully understand our puzzling relati…

lieferbar ab 7.4.2026.

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Hunter Davies
George Stephenson

George Stephensonis the ultimate self-made man. Born in the pit village of Wylam, near Newcastle, and denied a formal education, he would go on to invent machines that transformed the world.From the momen…

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