This volume examines the various technologies and aircraft that have enabled human flight and includes a comprehensive section on the design and operation of airports. --from publisher description

Presents a history of railroads and provides profiles of railroad tycoons, engineers, and bridge builders.

An overview of renewable and alternative energy sources that provides details about solar, wind, geothermal, and nuclear energy as well as hydropower and biofuels, discussing how energy is produced from them and including photographs and diagrams.

Presents the lives and accomplishments of major entrepreneurs and computer scientists responsible for the technological innovations of the twentieth century involving information processing, and the development of the Internet.

An overview of weapons of mass destruction covers the types and effects of their use; the status of such nuclear powers as the United States, China, and Israel; and the history of arms control and disarmament.

Describes the origins, development, and impact of inventions in communications, transportation, energy, engineering, medicine, warfare, measurement, agriculture, and industry from cuneiform to fullerenes.