num_pages: 544
description: 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.
language: English
title: Engineering in History
titlecomplete: Engineering in History (Dover Civil and Mechanical Engineering)
genres: Nonfiction, History, Engineering
ratings_count: 33
publisher: Dover Publications