num_pages: 528
description: Engineering is where human knowledge meets real-world problemsand solves them. It's the source of some of our greatest inventions from the catapult to the jet engine. Marshall Brain creator of the How Stuff Works series and a professor at the Engineering Entrepreneurs Program at NCSU provides a detailed look at 250 milestones in the discipline. He covers the various areas including chemical aerospace and computer engineering from ancient history to the present. The topics include architectural wonders like the Acropolis the Great Wall of China and the Eiffel Tower; transportation advances such as the high-speed bullet train; medical innovations including the artificial heart and kidney dialysis; developments in communications such as the cell phone; as well as air conditioning Wi-Fi the Large Hadron Collider the self-driving car and more. 
language: English
title: The Engineering Book: From the Catapult to the Curiosity Rover, 250 Milestones in the History of Engineering
publisher: Union Square  Co.