Not really about history of technology as a whole but the book Computing in the Middle Ages was really fascinating. Made me realize that lots of the challenges software engineers face are much older than we assume. https://www.amazon.com/Computing-Middle-Ages-Trenches-1955-1... (https://www.amazon.com/Computing-Middle-Ages-Trenches-1955-1983/dp/1403315175)
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