Engineering

Engineering (from Latin ingenium, meaning "cleverness" and ingeniare, meaning "to contrive, devise") is the application of scientific, economic, social, and practical knowledge in order to invent, design, build, maintain, and improve structures, machines, devices, systems, materials and processes. The discipline of engineering is extremely broad, and encompasses a range of more specialized fields of engineering, each with a more specific emphasis on particular areas of applied science, technology and types of application. ...more

Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
The Thinking Machine: Jensen Huang, Nvidia, and the World's Most Coveted Microchip
The Formula: How Rogues, Geniuses, and Speed Freaks Reengineered F1 into the World's Fastest-Growing Sport―A High-Octane History of Formula 1's Rise in America, Racing Culture, and Engineering Marvels
How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors That Determine the Fate of Every Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration and Everything In Between
Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX
Unit X: How the Pentagon and Silicon Valley Are Transforming the Future of War
Why Machines Learn: The Elegant Math Behind Modern AI
Reentry: SpaceX, Elon Musk, and the Reusable Rockets that Launched a Second Space Age
The Staff Engineer's Path: A Guide for Individual Contributors Navigating Growth and Change
Flying Blind: The 737 MAX Tragedy and the Fall of Boeing
The Book: The Ultimate Guide To Rebuilding Civilization
Engineering in Plain Sight: An Illustrated Field Guide to the Constructed Environment
How to Feed the World: A Factful Guide
The Software Engineer's Guidebook: Navigating senior, tech lead, and staff engineer positions at tech companies and startups
Structures: Or Why Things Don't Fall Down
To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design
The Design of Everyday Things
Designing Data-Intensive Applications
Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed
The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master
Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship
The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World
The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn
The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering
The Art of Electronics
Ignition!: An informal history of liquid rocket propellants
Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World
Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software
How To Build A Car
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The Internet (Non-Fiction)
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Wanna be a Chemical Engineer?
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Bell Labs
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From the Erzgebirge to Potosi by Sean   DalyThe Principia  by Isaac NewtonThe Origin of Species by Charles DarwinRelativity by Albert EinsteinOn The Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres by Nicolaus Copernicus
Science Through History
228 books — 22 voters



Robert A. Heinlein
The world steadily grows better because the human mind, applying itself to environment, makes it better... with hands... with tools... with horse sense and science and engineering.
Robert A. Heinlein, The Door Into Summer

Haresh Sippy
Automation is cost cutting by tightening the corners and not cutting them.
Haresh Sippy

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