Engineering

The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's On-line Pioneers  by Tom Standage, Bloomsbury USA, Second Edition, Revised, 2014.

Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon by Kim Zetter, Crown, 2015. Three stories: Detecting Stuxnet Stuxnet Iran's centrifuges Applications of PLCs: Oil and gas pipelines turbines of power plants sewage pumps robots on car assembly lines steel furnaces trains elevators Players: Symantec NSA Israel I.D.F. Ujite 8200 Iran Siemens programmable logic controllers Kaspersky Lab (Eugene) ISIS IAEA Uranium hexafluoride Microsoft Zero Day Exp

The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World  by Simon Winchester, Harper Perennial, 2019.

The Last Lone Inventor: A Tale of Genius, Deceit, and the Birth of Television  by Evan I. Schwartz, Harper Perennial, 2003.  Electronic versus Mechanical:   Philo T. Farnsworth invented television. His basic innovation was to make it purely electronic, in contrast with the other efforts at the time, which were partly mechanical. His competitors all used mechanical devices and so were too slow to change the image quickly enough so that the eye would perceive continuous motion.

Brilliant!: Shuji Nakamura And the Revolution in Lighting Technology  (Updated Edition) by Bob Johnstone, Prometheus Books, 2015.  This...

Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed  by Ben R. Rich and Leo Janos, Little, Brown & Co., 1994.  Lockheed This book describes a highly secret project at Lockheed to develop advanced technology in aircraft. It was called the Skunk Works, and was located in Burbank, California.  Key Individuals:  Kelly Johnson: He joined Lockheed in 1933, and started the Skunk Works in 1943.  Ben Rich: He was initially Kelly Johnson’s vice-president for advanced projects. In 19

Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War  by Robert Coram, Back Bay Books, 2004.  Polymath Maverick John Boyd was a pilot, an engineer, a mathematician, a tactician and a maverick. Boyd was slow in getting promoted, because he was too outspoken. His ideas had a substantial impact on aircraft design, although the F-15 and F-16 fighter jets that he helped design were compromised with bells and whistles that reduced Boyd’s primary goal of maneuverability. Boyd favore