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Frank Julian Sprague: Electrical Inventor and Engineer
Frank Julian Sprague invented a system for distributing electricity to streetcars from overhead wires. Within a year, electric streetcars had begun to replace horsecars, sparking a revolution in urban transportation....
Our Final Invention: Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era
'I wish it was science fiction, but I know it's not' Jaan Tallinn, co-founder of Skype'If you read just one book that makes you confront scary high-tech realities that we'll...
Brainstorms and Mindfarts: The Best and Brightest, Dumbest and Dimmest Inventions in American History
Author: Jim Downey Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 The American entrepreneurial spirit burns bright today. As of 2018, the US Patent & Trademark Office had granted its ten millionth...
Bad Ideas? An arresting history of our inventions
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Living Dolls: A Magical History of the Quest for Mechanical Life
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Inventor Confidential: The Honest Guide to Profitable Inventing
Author: Warren Tuttle Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 The road to licensing a profitable, innovative product or technology is riddled with curves, holes, and rocky cliffs. The President of...
The Brilliant Outsider
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Power Play: Elon Musk, Tesla, and the Bet of the Century
Author: Tim Higgins Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 The fast-paced business story of Tesla- Elon Musk's battle to build the mass-market electric car to change the world Inside the...
Humphry Davy: Life Beyond the Lamp: Poet and Philosopher
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Fifty Inventions That Shaped the Modern Economy
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Frank Whittle (Icon Science): The Invention of the Jet
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Vintage Tomorrows: What Steampunk Can Teach Us About the Future
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The Life Scientific: Inventors
Author: Anna Buckley Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 What does it take to be an inventor? Judging by the ingenious individuals who have come into The Life Scientific studio...
The Life Scientific: Inventors
Author: Anna Buckley Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 What does it take to be an inventor? Judging by the ingenious individuals who have come into The Life Scientific studio...
LEGO Heroes: LEGO (R) Builders Changing Our World-One Brick at a Time
Author: Graham Hancock Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 112 LEGO (R) Heroes is a collection of twelve remarkable stories about everyday heroes using the LEGO (R) system in unique ways...
The Life Scientific: Inventors
What does it take to be an inventor? Judging by the ingenious individuals who have come into The Life Scientific studio in the last eight years, there is no simple...