Engineering

Engineering (from Latin ingenium, meaning "cleverness" and ingeniare, meaning "to contrive, devise") is the application of scientific, economic, social, and practical knowledge in order to invent, design, build, maintain, and improve structures, machines, devices, systems, materials and processes. The discipline of engineering is extremely broad, and encompasses a range of more specialized fields of engineering, each with a more specific emphasis on particular areas of applied science, technology and types of application. ...more

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Kobuk the Destroyer: And Other Tales from the Wild, Unseen World of Test Engineering
Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
The Thinking Machine: Jensen Huang, Nvidia, and the World's Most Coveted Microchip
How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors That Determine the Fate of Every Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration and Everything In Between
The Formula: How Rogues, Geniuses, and Speed Freaks Reengineered F1 into the World's Fastest-Growing Sport―A High-Octane History of Formula 1's Rise in America, Racing Culture, and Engineering Marvels
How to Feed the World: A Factful Guide
Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX
Beyond Measure: The Hidden History of Measurement from Cubits to Quantum Constants
Kobuk the Destroyer: And Other Tales from the Wild, Unseen World of Test Engineering
Maintenance of Everything: Part One
Air-Borne: The Hidden History of the Life We Breathe
Unit X: How the Pentagon and Silicon Valley Are Transforming the Future of War
Reentry: SpaceX, Elon Musk, and the Reusable Rockets that Launched a Second Space Age
Invention and Innovation: A Brief History of Hype and Failure
Hidden Systems: Water, Electricity, the Internet, and the Secrets Behind the Systems We Use Every Day
Structures: Or Why Things Don't Fall Down
To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design
The Design of Everyday Things
Designing Data-Intensive Applications
Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed
The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master
The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World
Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship
The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn
The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering
The Art of Electronics
Ignition!: An informal history of liquid rocket propellants
Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World
How To Build A Car
Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software
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Retrofuturism (nonfiction)
29 books — 6 voters
Martian Aeolian Geomorphology by Zhibao DongThe Origin of Species by Charles DarwinThe Principia by Isaac NewtonFrom the Erzgebirge to Potosi by Sean   DalyRelativity by Albert Einstein
Science Through History
232 books — 29 voters

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Future Technology (nonfiction)
200 books — 355 voters
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Best 21st Century Non-Fiction
2,423 books — 2,251 voters


Eliezer Yudkowsky
“ It doesn't matter who is in charge, because this problem is out of humanity's league. ...more ”
― Eliezer Yudkowsky, If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Warum eine superintelligente KI uns alle vernichten würde | Der New York Times Bestseller über Risiken der künstlichen Intelligenz

“ Whatever requirement or constraint you have, it must come with a name (...) That person whose it putting forward the requirement or constraint (...) must take responsibility for a requirement. ”
― Elon Musk

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