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Engineering is where human knowledge meets real-world problems--and solves them. It's the source of some of our greatest inventions, from the catapult to the jet engine, from the cell phone to the Large Hadron Collider. Marshall Brain, creator of the How Stuff Works series, provides a detailed look at 250 milestones in aerospace, architecture, chemistry, computer engineering, and more, from ancient history to the present.
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The engineering book: from the catapult to the Curiosity Rover : 250 milestones in the history of engineering
2015, Sterling
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Engineering Book: From the Catapult to the Curiosity Rover, 250 Milestones in the History of Engineering
2015, Sterling Publishing Co., Inc.
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Table of Contents
Machine generated contents note: 30,000 BCE Bow and Arrow
3300 BCE Hunter/Gatherer Tools
2550 BCE The Great Pyramid
2000 BCE Inuit Technology
1400 BCE Concrete
625 BCE Asphalt
438 BCE Parthenon
312 BCE Roman Aqueduct System
100 BCE Waterwheel
79 Pompeii
1040 Compass
1144 Basilica of Saint Denis
1300 Catapult
1372 Leaning Tower of Pisa
1492 Square-Rigged Wooden Sailboats
1600 The Great Wall of China
1620 Gunter's Chain
1670 Mechanical Pendulum Clock
1750 Simple Machines at Yates Mill
1773 Building Implosions
1784 Power Loom
1790 Cotton Mill
1794 Cotton Gin
1800 High-Pressure Steam Engine
1823 Truss Bridge
1824 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
1825 Erie Canal
1830 Tom Thumb Steam Locomotive
1835 Combine Harvester
1837 Telegraph System
1845 Mass Production
1845 Tunnel Boring Machine
1846 Sewing Machine
1851 America's Cup
1854 Water Treatment
1855 Bessemer Process
1856 Plastic
1858 Big Ben
1859 Oil Well
1859 Modern Sewer System
1860 Louisville Water Tower
1861 Wamsutta Oil Refinery
1861 Elevator
1869 Transcontinental Railroad
1873 Cable Cars
1876 Telephone
1878 Power Grid
1879 Carbon Fiber
1885 Supercharger and Turbocharger
1885 Washington Monument
1886 Statue of Liberty
1889 Eiffel Tower
1889 Hall-Héroult Process
1890 Steam Turbine
1891 Carnegie Hall
1891 Zuiderzee Works
1893 Two-Stroke Diesel Engine
1893 Ferris Wheel
1897 Diesel Locomotive
1899 Defibrillator
1902 Air Conditioning
1903 EKG/ECG
1903 The Wright Brothers' Airplane
1905 Engineered Lumber
1907 Professional Engineer Licensing
1908 Internal Combustion Engine
1910 Laparoscopic Surgery
1912 Titanic
1913 Woolworth Building
1914 Panama Canal
1917 Laser
1917 Hooker Telescope
1919 Women's Engineering Society
1919 Under Friction Roller Coaster
1920 Kinsol Trestle Bridge
1920 Radio Station
1921 Robot
1926 Heart-Lung Machine
1927 Electric Refrigeration
1931 Empire State Building
1935 Tape Recording
1936 Hoover Dam
1937 Golden Gate Bridge
1937 Hindenburg
1937 Turbojet Engine
1937 Magnetically Levitated Train
1938 Formula One Car
1939 Norden Bombsight
1939 Color Television
1940 Tacoma Narrows Bridge
1940 Radar
1940 Titanium
1941 Doped Silicon
1942 Spread Spectrum
1943 Dialysis Machine
1943 SCUBA
1944 Helicopter
1945 Uranium Enrichment
1945 Trinity Nuclear Bomb
1946 ENIAC : The First Digital Computer
1946 Top-Loading Washing Machine
1946 Microwave Oven
1946 Light Water Reactor
1947 AK-47
1947 Transistor
1948 Cable TV
1949 Tower Crane
1949 Atomic Clock
1949 Integrated Circuit
1950 Chess Computer
1951 Jet Engine Testing
1952 Center-Pivot Irrigation
1952 3D Glasses
1952 Ivy Mike Hydrogen Bomb
1953 Automobile Airbag
1956 Hard Disk
1956 TAT-1 Undersea Cable
1957 Frozen Pizza
1957 Space Satellite
1958 Cabin Pressurization
1959 Desalination
1960 Cleanroom
1961 Tl Line
1961 Green Revolution
1962 SR-71
1962 Atomic Clock Radio Station
1963 Retractable Stadium Roof
1963 Irradiated Food
1964 Top Fuel Dragster
1964 Drip Irrigation
1964 Natural Gas Tanker
1964 Bullet Train
1965 Gateway Arch in St. Louis
1965 Cluster Munition
1966 Compound Bow
1966 Parafoil
1966 Pebble Bed Nuclear Reactor
1966 Dynamic RAM
1967 Automotive Emission Controls
1967 Apollo 1
1967 Saturn V Rocket
1968 C-5 Super Galaxy
1968 Boeing 747 Jumbo Jet
1969 Lunar Landing
1969 ARPANET
1969 Space Suit
1970 LCD Screen
1970 Apollo 13
1970 Fiber Optic Communication
1971 Anti-Lock Brakes
1971 Lunar Rover
1971 Microprocessor
1971 CANDU Reactor
1971 CT Scan
1971 Power Plant Scrubber
1971 Kevlar
1972 Genetic Engineering
1973 World Trade Center
1975 Router
1976 The Concorde
1976 CN Tower
1976 VHS Videotape
1977 Human-Powered Airplane
1977 Tuned Mass Damper
1977 Voyager Spacecraft
1977 Trans-Alaska Pipeline
1977 MRI
1978 Nitrous Oxide Engine
1978 Bagger 288
1979 Seawise Giant Supertanker
1980 Flash Memory
1980 Ml Tank
1980 Stadium TV Screen
1981 Bigfoot Monster Truck
1981 Space Shuttle Orbiter
1981 V-22 Osprey
1982 Artificial Heart
1982 Neodymium Magnet
1983 RFID Tag
1983 F-117 Stealth Fighter
1983 Mobile Phone
1983 Gimli Glider
1983 Ethernet
1984 3D Printer
1984 Domain Name Service (DNS)
1984 Surgical Robot
1984 Container Shipping
1984 Itaipu Dam
1985 Bath County Pumped Storage
1985 International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER)
1985 Virtual Reality
1986 Chernobyl
1986 Apache Helicopter
1990 World Wide Web
1990 The Hubble Space Telescope
1991 Lithium Ion Battery
1991 Biosphere 2
1992 Low-Flow Toilet
1992 Stormwater Management
1993 Keck Telescope
1993 Doom Engine
1994 Channel Tunnel
1994 Digital Camera
1994 Global Positioning System (GPS)
1994 Kansai International Airport
1995 Toy Story Animated Movie
1996 Ariel Atom
1996 HDTV
1997 Prius Hybrid Car
1998 International Space Station
1998 Large Hadron Collider
1998 Smart Grid
1998 Iridium Satellite System
1999 Wi-Fi
2001 Segway
2003 A Century of Innovation
2004 Millau Viaduct
2005 Bugatti Veyron
2005 Georgia Aquarium
2006 Palm Islands
2006 AMOLED Screen
2007 Smart Phone
2008 Quadrotor
2008 Carbon Sequestration
2008 Engineering Grand Challenges
2008 Martin Jet Pack
2008 Three Gorges Dam
2009 National Ignition Facility
2009 Earthquake-Safe Buildings
2009 US President's Limousine
2010 Solar Impulse Airplane
2010 BP Blowout Preventer Failure
2010 Burj Khalifa
2010 Harry Potter Forbidden Journey Ride
2010 Alta Wind Energy Center
2010 Tablet Computer
2010 The X2 and X3 Helicopters
2011 Fukushima Disaster
2011 Self-Driving Car
2011 Instant Skyscraper
2011 Watson
2012 Curiosity Rover
2012 Human-Powered Helicopter
2013 NCSU BookBot
2014 Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System
2016 Venice Flood System
c. 2020 Vactrains
c. 2024 Brain Replication
c. 2030 Mars Colony
c. 3000 Things We Have Yet to Engineer.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 516-522) and index.
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