Bücher der Reihe Greenwood Technographies

In almost all depictions of the future, one technology plays a prominent role - the robot. Science fiction movies and stories tell us that, in the not so distant future, robots - from Robbie the Robot to C3PO to the Terminator - will be everywhere, taking care of every human need.

This book chronicles the history of radio as technology and as media. all of whom strove to make radio into what they thought it should be. In addition, Radio: The Life Story of a Technology looks at the technology as a cultural phenomenon, including the corporate aspects and history of the business of radio.

The invention of the airplane redefined the way in which people travel, conduct commerce, spend their leisure time, and wage war.

Part of a series that tells the "life story" of the objects and technologies that have become so vital to our daily lives. This volume combines a discussion of technical developments with a description of the effect the technology has on the fabric of society and culture. It traces the history of Television from its beginning.

Explores how the technology of the telephone has drastically altered how people work, how they keep in touch with friends and loved ones, and how they organise their daily lives.

Provides the first history of what engineers call electron devices--vacuum tubes, lasers, image displays, transistors, and computer chips--that form the hidden but increasingly important "guts" of modern technologies.

Provides a broad overview of the history of the printed book across many centuries, cultures, and in a variety of fields.

All three principal uses of rocket technology are covered in detail: missiles as long-range strategic weapons and short-range tactical weapons, and rockets as launch vehicles for sending payloads into space The book concludes with a survey of several types of non-chemical rockets now under development for use in outer space.

Firearms tells the life story of the gun, from the hand-held weapons of ancient humans, to the medieval guns of China that propelled objects by chemical reactions, to the modern assault rifle, the gun as the primary weapon in the modern army, and the gun as a tool for hunting.

The volume includes a chronology of the automobile's evolution, a glossary of technical terms, a selected bibliography, and more than 20 photographs and illustrations.

The railway altered the landscape to the United States. Within a few decades of the invention of the locomotive, railways stretched from coast to coast, enabling people and goods to travel far greater distances than ever before, completely altering our concept of time and space.

How did one of the great inventions of the 19th century - Thomas Edison's phonography - eventually lead to one of the most culturally and economically significant technologies of the 20th and 21st centuries? This text traces the history of the cultural revolution begun by Edison's invention.

At the same time, military concerns influenced, and and sometimes channeled, American engineering and scientific development. American Military Technology chronicles the interactions of technology and science with America's armed forces from colonial times to the end of the 20th century.

This volume in the Greenwood Technographies series covers urban mass transit - that is, the technologies that allow cities to move large numbers of people around.

Part of the Greenwood Technographies series Provides a worldwide examination of computing, and how such needs as security and defence during the Cold War drove the development of computing technology Shows how the computer has entered almost every aspect of daily life in the 21st century