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Books in the NSCC Library

How We Got to Now: Six Innovations that Made the Modern World by Steven Johnson
Call Number: T14.5 .J64 2014
ISBN: 9781594632969
Publication Date: 2014-09-30
Traces the development of six key technologies of modern life: refrigeration, clocks, lenses, water purification, recorded sound, and artificial light
The Age of Edison: Electrification and the Invention of Modern America by Ernest Freeberg
Call Number: T 173.4 .F754 2013
ISBN: 9781594204265
Publication Date: 2013-02-21
American Genesis: A Century of Invention and Technological Enthusiasm by Thomas Parke Hughes
Call Number: T21 .H82 1989
ISBN: 9780670814787
Publication Date: 1989-04-28
Explores the period between 1870-1970 that saw the invention of incandescent light, the radio, the airplane, gasoline powered automobiles, and the development of infrastructure to electrify the nation and establishing telephone and wireless networks.
The Entrepreneurial Spirit of African American Inventors by Patricia Carter Sluby
Call Number: T21 .S58 2011
ISBN: 9780313363351
Publication Date: 2011-03-21
This book not only documents the valuable contributions of African American thinkers, inventors, and entrepreneurs past and present, but also puts these achievements into context of the obstacles these innovators faced because of their race.
Patently Female by Ethlie Ann Vare; Greg Ptacek
Call Number: T36 .V38 2001
ISBN: 0471023345
Publication Date: 2001-11-26
Explores the stories of female inventors and their innovations including: Astrolabe Automatic Dishwasher Barbie Doll Buffered Aspirin COBOL Cotton Gin Disposable Phone Drip Coffeemaker Fabric Softener Sheets Hang Glider IV Fluids Jell-O Kevlar Mars Rover Nystatin PDA (Personal Digital Assistant) Protease Inhibitors Rolfing Smallpox Variolation Space Suit Spic & Span Tract Housing Vacuum Canning Windshield Wipers Zig-Zag Sewing Machine Zovirax and many, many more!
The Greatest Inventions of the Past 2000 Years by John Brockman (Editor); Jared Diamond (Afterword by)
Call Number: T15 .G72 2000
ISBN: 9780684859989
Publication Date: 2000-01-12
Contributors from a variety of fields offer their views of the most important discoveries of the last two millennia--and some earlier ones that bore fruit more recently--including social and philosophical changes as well as scientific and technological inventions.

E-Books from the NSCC Library

Grand Central's Engineer by Kurt C. Schlichting
ISBN: 9781421403021
Publication Date: 2012-05-01
Few people have had as profound an impact on the history of New York City as William J. Wilgus. As chief engineer of the New York Central Railroad, Wilgus conceived the Grand Central Terminal, the city's magnificent monument to America's Railway Age. Kurt C. Schlichting here examines the remarkable career of this innovator, revealing how his tireless work moving people and goods over and under Manhattan Island's surrounding waterways forever changed New York's bustling transportation system.
The Past Half Century of Engineering - And a Look Forward by Steve Olson (Editor); National Academy of Engineering
ISBN: 9780309369015
Publication Date: 2015-05-23
Engineering is poised to make an even greater contribution to society in the next half century than it has made in the past half century. At its annual meeting on September 28-29, 2014, the National Academy of Engineering celebrated the 50th anniversary of its founding. A highlight of the meeting was a forum of distinguished speakers who considered the achievements of the last 50 years and looked toward the potential achievements of the next 50. The Past Half Century of Engineering - and a Look Forward summarizes their presentations.
Engineering by Sunny Y. Auyang
ISBN: 9780674019782
Publication Date: 2006-03-15
Genetic engineering, nanotechnology, astrophysics, particle physics: We live in an engineered world, one where the distinctions between science and engineering, technology and research, are fast disappearing. This book shows how, at the dawn of the twenty-first century, the goals of natural scientists?to discover what was not known?and that of engineers?to create what did not exist?are undergoing an unprecedented convergence. In concise accounts of the emergence of industrial laboratories and chemical and electrical engineering, and in whirlwind histories of the machine tools and automobile industries and the rise of nuclear energy and information technology, her book presents a broad picture of modern engineering: its history, structure, technological achievements, and social responsibilities; its relation to natural science, business administration, and public policies.
Engineering Invention by Frederick Dalzell; W. Bernard Carlson (Foreword by); John Sprague (Afterword by)
ISBN: 9780262258708
Publication Date: 2009-09-25
The technological breakthroughs and entrepreneurial adventures of Frank J. Sprague during the transformative years of the early electrical industry. Over the course of a little less than twenty years, inventor Frank J. Sprague (1857-1934) achieved an astonishing series of technological breakthroughs--from pioneering work in self-governing motors to developing the first full-scale operational electric railway system--all while commercializing his inventions and promoting them (and himself as their inventor) to financial backers and the public. In Engineering Invention, Frederick Dalzell tells Sprague's story, setting it against the backdrop of one of the most dynamic periods in the history of technology.
Stories of Inventors by Russell Doubleday
ISBN: 9781775412557
Publication Date: 2009-01-01
There are many thrilling incidents - all the more attractive because of their truth - in the study, the trials, the disappointments, the obstacles overcome, and the final triumph of the successful inventor. Every great invention, afterward marvelled at, was first derided. Each great inventor, after solving problems in mechanics or chemistry, had to face the jeers of the incredulous. The trials and dangers of the builders of the submarine; the triumphant thrill of the inventor who hears for the first time the vibration of the long-distance message through the air; the daring and tension of the engineer who drives a locomotive at one hundred miles an hour - these are the true stories of great inventors.

Videos from the NSCC Library

Modern Marvels Series
Modern Marvels is an American worldwide television series on the History Channel. The program focuses on how technologies affect and are used in today's society
Understanding the Inventions That Changed the World
36 episode series from The Great Courses Plus. From prehistoric times to the 21st century, inventions have changed the world, enabling humans to produce more food and energy and to establish social order and cultural meaning. In fact, great inventions have marked a number of key turning points in human history, transforming society and our daily lives.

By the time he died in 1931, Thomas Edison was one of the most famous men in the world. The holder of more patents than any other inventor in history, Edison had amassed a fortune and achieved glory as the genius behind such revolutionary inventions as sound recording, motion pictures, and electric light.

SILICON VALLEY tells the story of the pioneering scientists who transformed rural Santa Clara County into the hub of technological ingenuity we now know as Silicon Valley. The film spotlights the creativity of the young men who founded Fairchild Semiconductor and in particular the brilliant, charismatic young physicist Robert Noyce. Their radical innovations would include the integrated circuit that helped make the United States a leader in both space exploration and the personal computer revolution, transforming the way the world works, plays and communicates, making possible everything from the Apollo program to smart phones, from pacemakers to microwaves.

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