A gripping look at the rise of the microchip and the British tech company caught in the middle of the global battle for dominance

SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2018 Bestselling author Simon Winchester writes a magnificent history of the pioneering engineers who developed precision machinery to allow us to see as far as the moon and as close as the Higgs boson.

This is the second of Dr. Chapman's internationally renowned books on workshop technology and calculations.

This updated book of thermodynamic tables for students is presented in the widely used SI (metric) unit system.

Traceable calibration of test and measurement equipment is a requirement of the ISO 9000 series of standards. This book provides useful information for the growing number of firms registered for ISO 9000. It includes worked examples in the text and solutions to problems which can be compared to real life situations.