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Steve Jobs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as history-of-technology)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,341,133 ratings — published 2011
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as history-of-technology)
avg rating 4.04 — 16,946 ratings — published 2011
The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World (ebook)
by (shelved 8 times as history-of-technology)
avg rating 4.15 — 6,437 ratings — published 2018
The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as history-of-technology)
avg rating 4.20 — 8,643 ratings — published 2012
The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as history-of-technology)
avg rating 4.12 — 39,397 ratings — published 2011
Technics and Civilization (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as history-of-technology)
avg rating 4.31 — 605 ratings — published 1934
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as history-of-technology)
avg rating 4.04 — 449,151 ratings — published 1997
The Making of the Atomic Bomb (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as history-of-technology)
avg rating 4.40 — 24,074 ratings — published 1986
Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as history-of-technology)
avg rating 4.16 — 8,508 ratings — published 1984
Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as history-of-technology)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,434 ratings — published 2000
The Evolution of Technology (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as history-of-technology)
avg rating 3.77 — 204 ratings — published 1988
1001 Inventions That Changed the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as history-of-technology)
avg rating 4.18 — 395 ratings — published 2009
Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as history-of-technology)
avg rating 4.46 — 16,225 ratings — published 1994
The Pentagon's Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA, America's Top-Secret Military Research Agency (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as history-of-technology)
avg rating 3.99 — 4,836 ratings — published 2015
The Soul of a New Machine (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as history-of-technology)
avg rating 4.12 — 9,325 ratings — published 1981
The Machine in the Garden: Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as history-of-technology)
avg rating 4.05 — 616 ratings — published 1964
Energy and Civilization: A History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as history-of-technology)
avg rating 4.09 — 3,994 ratings — published 2017
Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as history-of-technology)
avg rating 4.41 — 38,071 ratings — published 2022
The Wright Brothers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as history-of-technology)
avg rating 4.17 — 97,592 ratings — published 2015
The Lever of Riches: Technological Creativity and Economic Progress (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as history-of-technology)
avg rating 4.05 — 300 ratings — published 1990
Mechanization Takes Command: A Contribution to Anonymous History (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as history-of-technology)
avg rating 4.29 — 96 ratings — published
The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book that Will Change the Way You Do Business (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as history-of-technology)
avg rating 4.04 — 59,522 ratings — published 1997
Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as history-of-technology)
avg rating 3.99 — 15,442 ratings — published 2010
Empires of Light: Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and the Race to Electrify the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as history-of-technology)
avg rating 4.07 — 2,681 ratings — published 2003
The Railway Journey: The Industrialization of Time and Space in the 19th Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as history-of-technology)
avg rating 4.10 — 558 ratings — published 1977
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as history-of-technology)
avg rating 4.05 — 148,468 ratings — published 2003
Technics and Human Development (The Myth of the Machine, Vol 1)
by (shelved 3 times as history-of-technology)
avg rating 4.22 — 322 ratings — published 1967
A History of Mechanical Inventions: Revised Edition (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as history-of-technology)
avg rating 3.90 — 21 ratings — published 1988
The Book: A Cover-to-Cover Exploration of the Most Powerful Object of Our Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as history-of-technology)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,176 ratings — published 2016
A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as history-of-technology)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,806 ratings — published 2017
Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as history-of-technology)
avg rating 4.13 — 438,694 ratings — published 2015
The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's On-line Pioneers (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as history-of-technology)
avg rating 3.96 — 3,555 ratings — published 1998
Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as history-of-technology)
avg rating 4.11 — 20,689 ratings — published 2013
How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as history-of-technology)
avg rating 4.11 — 15,433 ratings — published 2014
The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as history-of-technology)
avg rating 4.25 — 18,289 ratings — published 1972
When Information Came of Age: Technologies of Knowledge in the Age of Reason and Revolution, 1700-1850 (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as history-of-technology)
avg rating 3.14 — 43 ratings — published 2000
Inventing the Internet (Inside Technology)
by (shelved 3 times as history-of-technology)
avg rating 3.91 — 133 ratings — published 1999
Battle of Wits: The Complete Story of Codebreaking in World War II (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as history-of-technology)
avg rating 3.98 — 391 ratings — published 2000
The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as history-of-technology)
avg rating 4.22 — 22,546 ratings — published 1977
America by Design: Science, Technology, and the Rise of Corporate Capitalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as history-of-technology)
avg rating 3.96 — 68 ratings — published 1977
American Technological Sublime (Mit Press)
by (shelved 3 times as history-of-technology)
avg rating 4.01 — 97 ratings — published 1994
The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Our World from Scratch (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as history-of-technology)
avg rating 3.76 — 3,554 ratings — published 2014
The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as history-of-technology)
avg rating 4.28 — 15,458 ratings — published 1989
Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as history-of-technology)
avg rating 3.94 — 4,875 ratings — published 1996
Disenchanted Night: The Industrialization of Light in the Nineteenth Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as history-of-technology)
avg rating 4.20 — 207 ratings — published 1983
A Short History of Technology: From the Earliest Times to A.D. 1900 (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as history-of-technology)
avg rating 3.80 — 41 ratings — published 1985
Exploding the Phone: The Untold Story of the Teenagers and Outlaws who Hacked Ma Bell (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as history-of-technology)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,755 ratings — published 2013
What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815 - 1848 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as history-of-technology)
avg rating 4.16 — 8,668 ratings — published 2007
American Genesis: A Century of Invention and Technological Enthusiasm, 1870-1970 (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as history-of-technology)
avg rating 3.87 — 117 ratings — published 1989
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as history-of-technology)
avg rating 3.99 — 75,539 ratings — published 1995
“As soon as the edifice of the knowledge of the ancients had been shaken in the minds of the most inquisitive, questions upon questions arose which now demanded technology, including -- crucially -- the invention of the telescope and the microscope, enabling a generation of scholars to see clearly things which had been absolutely invisible to their forefathers. It was a thrilling, and dangerous, time to be alive.”
― The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown
― The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown
