Book Reviews (recent)

"Dip into the Century's Technological Past," review of Visions of Technology, by Richard Rhodes, Nature, May 20, 1999, p. 219.

Of Structural Analysis: A Historical Approach, by Jacques Heyman. Isis 90 (June 1999): 353-354.

Of Air-conditioning America: Engineers and the Controlled Environment, by Gail Cooper. Washington Times, to appear.

Of Constructing a Bridge: An Exploration of Engineering Culture, Design, and Research in Nineteenth-Century France and America, by Eda Kranakis. Isis 88 (1997): 717.

"What's the Matter?" [review of Stuff: The Materials the World Is Made of], The Washington Post Book World, May 25, 1997, p. 9.

Review of Building the Nineteenth Century, American Scientist, November-December 1997, pp. 580-581.

"Engineering a Nation," [review of The Innovators: The Engineering Pioneers Who Made America Modern], New Scientist, June 29, 1996, p. 41.

"Building Firm Foundations" [review of three children's books on building and construction], Nature, November 16, 1995, pp. 313-314.

"Slipped Discs" [review of The Way Things Work and Leonardo the Inventor (CD-ROMs)], Scientific American, September 1995, pp. 210, 212.

"The Wonders of Water" [review of The Science of Water: The Foundation of Modern Hydraulics], Civil Engineering, May 1995, pp. 106-107.

"Privileged Order" [review of Structures in the Stream: Water, Science, and the Rise of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers], Nature, March 16, 1995, p. 224.

"Technopolis" [review of A Scientist in the City], Nature, March 24, 1994, pp. 367-368.

Review of Bridges--Technology and Insurance. Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, vol. 18 (1993), no. 4, p. 397.

"Learning from Failure" [review of Set Phasers on Stun, and Other True Tales of Design, Technology, and Human Error]. IEEE Spectrum, December 1993, pp. 11, 14.

"The Domestic Dimension" [review of Looking Around: A Journey Through Architecture], Chicago Tribune, January 3, 1993, Sect. 14 [Books], pp. 4-5.

Review of The Portable Radio in American Life. Business History Review, vol. 66, Winter 1992, pp. 796-797.

"From Know-How to Nowhere" [review of Flying Buttresses, Entropy, and O-Rings], Nature, April 9, 1992, p. 488.

"Engineering in the Making" [review of The Idea Factory], Science, November l, l99l, p. 737.

"The Lever and the Inclined Plane" [review of An Introduction to the History of Structural Mechanics], American Scientist, March-April, 1992, pp. 188-189.