Engineers: From the Great Pyramids to Spacecraft

Every bridge you cross, every road you drive on, every building you work in is the achievement of engineering — the practical application of physical understanding to the transformation of the material world. Engineers: From the Great Pyramids to Spacecraft tells the story of this transformation across five thousand years, from the anonymous builders of ancient Egypt and Rome to the named giants of the Industrial Revolution and the engineers who made the Space Age possible.

DK’s visual approach is ideally suited to this subject: the diagrams, cross-sections, and photographs that accompany each profile make the engineering itself comprehensible to any reader, while the biographical material grounds each achievement in the life and time of the person who conceived it. Brunel, Tesla, Isambard Kingdom, Wernher von Braun — each emerges as a fully realised figure as well as a technical pioneer.

Beautifully produced and endlessly fascinating — the ideal gift for anyone interested in how the built world came to be, and in the people who built it. Published by DK.