engineering

Book Reviews

• William Albert: The Turnpike Road System in England 1663-1840
  - development, administration, finance; repair and transport costs
• John D. Anderson Jr: Inventing Flight
  The Wright Brothers and Their Predecessors
• Andy Bielenberg: The Shannon Scheme
  and the Electrification of the Irish Free State
• David Blockley: Bridges
  The Science and Art of the World's Most Inspiring Structures
• Geoff Coyle: The Riches Beneath Our Feet
  How Mining Shaped Britain
• Keith Farrer: To Feed a Nation
  A history of Australian food science and technology
• Larrie D. Ferreiro: Ships and Science
  The Birth of Naval Architecture in the Scientific Revolution, 1600-1800
• 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
• Brian Hayes: Infrastructure*
  A Field Guide to the Industrial Landscape
• Marc Levinson: The Box*
  How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger
• David JC MacKay: Sustainable Energy: Without the Hot Air
  - the constraints on powering the United Kingdom
• Randall Munroe: Thing Explainer
  Complicated Stuff in Simple Words
• Joseph Needham: The Shorter Science and Civilisation in China: 3*
  - nautical technology and the compass
• Jason Parisi, Justin Ball: The Future of Fusion Energy*
  - the science, engineering, history and politics
• 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 | transport

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