- Engineering--An Endless Frontier
- Sunny Y. Auyang
- Auyang ranges widely in demonstrating that engineering today is not only a collaborator with science but its equal. In concise accounts of the emergence of industrial laboratories and chemical and electrical engineering, and in whirlwind histories of the machine tools and automobile industries and the rise of nuclear energy and information technology, her book presents a broad picture of modern engineering.
- Hardcover 2004 / Paperback 2006
- Flying Buttresses, Entropy, and O-Rings
- James L. Adams
- From Teflon to Velcro, from bandwidths to base pairs, the artifacts of engineering and technology reflect the broad scope--and frustrating limitations--of our imagination. Best-selling author James Adams takes readers on an enlightening tour of this exciting world, demystifying such endeavors as design, research, and manufacturing.
- Hardcover 1992 / Paperback 1993
- Invention by Design
- Henry Petroski
- This book offers an insider's look at the political and cultural dimensions of design, development, and production, and reaffirms Petroski as the master explicator of the principles and processes that turn thoughts into the many things that define our material world.
- Hardcover 1996 / Paperback 1998