Great Engineers From Riquet to Shannon

Great Engineers From Riquet to Shannon Book Description

“Of course, not every inventor is an engineer or every engineer is an inventor; yet many engineers are also inventors.”
In this important work, Ioan James, who retired as a professor of mathematics at Oxford University, writes the biographies of fifty-one great engineers, going back 400 years from today. The book meticulously focuses on the achievements of the pioneers of engineering, who changed the world greatly between the seventeenth and twenty-first centuries, as well as the intriguing life stories of each of them. With chronologically arranged biographies, a striking picture is presented of the social conditions under which engineering has developed over the years. Keeping scientific and technical details to a minimum, the book invites all readers interested in the subject to easily follow modern developments.
While reading the interesting life stories of many great engineers such as Watt, Trevithick, Babbage, Eiffel, Edison, Tesla, Hertz, Wright Brothers, Marconi, Tupolev and Shannon, you can also read about the history of engineering from fortification structures, canals and bridges to modern electronics and the communication revolution. You will witness different aspects of it.

(From the Promotional Bulletin)

Dough Type: 2nd Dough

Number of Pages: 332

Size: 13.5 x 21

First Printing Year: 2021

Number of Printings: 1st Edition

Language: Turkish