engineering

Book Reviews

• John D. Anderson Jr: Inventing Flight
  The Wright Brothers and Their Predecessors
• Keith Farrer: To Feed a Nation
  A history of Australian food science and technology
• Neil Gershenfeld: The Physics of Information Technology*
  - a graduate or higher undergraduate text
• David Harrison: The Bridges of Medieval England*
  Transport and Society 400-1800
• Joseph Needham: The Shorter Science and Civilisation in China: 3*
  - nautical technology and the compass
• Henk Tennekes: The Simple Science of Flight*
  From Insects to Jumbo Jets
• Theodore Wildi: Electrical Machines, Drives, and Power Systems
  - an undergraduate text with little mathematics

See also: physics

Both my father and my most regular bushwalking companion are electrical engineers.