Every page in the KEVOS library tagged History of Engineering. 77 pages.
Spark ignition against compression ignition, why compression ratio governs efficiency, and how diesel-electric traction solved the transmission problem by deleting it.
Four milestones in moving goods overland, and a reminder that for bulk freight before the railway, water beat road every time.
Four milestones from the civilisation that industrialised construction: a cement that sets under water, gravity supply at metropolitan scale, roads specified to their duty, and …
Four milestones in which urban water and waste became one system, and in which the profession learned that a treatment barrier can appear to succeed for sixty years.
Three milestones that made the interior of the body, and then the sequence of its instructions, into computable data.
A clock that keeps a city's time and a network that carries a city's voice are the same kind of engineering: both distribute a shared reference that nobody owns and everybody de…
Three uses of the same physics that each forced a different discipline into existence: spectrum management, bandwidth engineering and the statistical theory of detection in noise.
Three milestones in which metal replaces masonry as the primary structural material, and in which someone tests it before building with it.
Four milestones in which the compact high-pressure engine and the iron hull between them end the age in which transport meant wind, water and muscle.
Four milestones showing a field that acquired chemistry rather than physics, and in which the decisive advance came from a part-time experimenter working in a cellar.
Three milestones producing the clearest example of fail-safe design anywhere in this set: a brake that applies itself when its own control system fails.
Three milestones that made stored electricity dense enough to move a vehicle, then fast enough and cheap enough to stabilise a grid.
Four milestones in the first industry assembled deliberately out of laboratory physics, and the first to design against a transmission medium that could not be inspected.
A structured reference series tracing how engineering stopped learning only from experience and began deriving results from science, with electrical engineering as the paradigm …
Interchangeable manufacture and the lockstitch sewing machine replaced skilled fitting with repeatable process, moving the engineering effort from the product to the system that…
Statutory engineer registration began in 1907, the year the Quebec Bridge fell. How the four-pillar competence model works and what it requires of Australian engineers today.
Three milestones, and an unusually clean case of a first design getting the architecture right, plus a patent case worth knowing.
Four milestones in which builders working without any theory of statics arrived, by observation and by failure, at a structural system of remarkable efficiency.
Six milestones including the single most consequential idea in the whole set: that there are general laws and that they can be known.
Interconnection turned separate power stations into one synchronised machine spanning a country, buying shared reserve and merit order dispatch at the price of propagating faults.
Three milestones in which a ship stopped being a shaped assembly of timbers and became a designed structure with a calculated stress distribution.
Six milestones that together constitute the largest single change in this set: the replacement of human muscle as the primary source of mechanical power.
A cased, drilled well and fractional distillation created an industry in two years. How well construction, barrier philosophy and refinery architecture actually work.
Three milestones that made computation a component rather than a facility, gave it persistent storage, and kept both getting cheaper for five decades.
Three milestones that replaced the vacuum tube, removed the wiring between components, and then removed the assumption that computers must be connected point to point.
Three milestones that separated communication from place, made position and precise time a free service, and folded a dozen devices into one.
Three milestones between 1854 and 1860 established the modern urban water system: treat what comes in, separate and treat what goes out, and store enough head to survive a failure.
Engineering begins as a response to water. Four milestones in levees, canals, urban drainage and bringing supply inside the walls.
Three milestones showing what happens when concrete construction moves from large to unprecedented, and the governing parameter turns out to be hydrology, creep or heat rather t…