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The New Geography of Innovation: The global contest for breakthrough
The US is the source of just about all the technologies that define modern life: personal computers, operating systems, smartphones, e-commerce, web browsers, email, search engines, social networks, electric cars...
Story of Inventions: From Antiquity to the Present
The series Compact Knowledge provides concise and relilable information on key cultural and historical topics. The Story of Inventions provides: . Chronological presentation of the most important themes . More...
Code Name Ginger
Dean Kamen is a secretive millionaire inventor who has been described as a cross between Thomas Edison and Willy Wonka. In February 1999 he invited Steve Kemper to write the...
Inventors and Inventions
Inventors and Inventions takes a refreshing look into the fascinating history of inventors and inventions. With encyclopaedic breadth, the book follows a diverse list of inventions from their earliest manifestations...
How We Got to Now: Six Innovations that Made the Modern World
How did photography bring about social reform? What connects refrigeration to Hollywood? And how did our battle against dirt help create smartphones? In this story of ingenious breakthroughs and unsung...
Biographic: Einstein
The Biographic series presents an entirely new way of looking at the lives of the world's greatest thinkers and creatives. It takes the 50 defining facts, dates, thoughts, habits and...
BANVARD'S FOLLY: Tales of Renowned Obscurity, Famous
History will always remember the Edisons, Einsteins and Darwins: they succeeded in changing the world, and the world has repaid them by enshrining their names. But what of those others...
Dawn of the New Everything
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Named one of the best books of 2017 by The Economist, The Wall Street Journal, & Vox The father of virtual reality explains its dazzling possibilities by reflecting on his...
Australia's Nobel Laureates: Adventures in Science and Innovation
As The Prime Minister Hon John Howard notes in his introduction to the recent deluxe publication, Australia's Nobel Laureates - Adventures in Innovation "One of Australia's most valuable assets is...
Biographic: Tesla
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Breakthrough: how one teen innovator is changing the world
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The Life Scientific: Inventors
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How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World
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The Knowledge Machine: How an Unreasonable Idea Created Modern Science
Rich with tales of discovery from Galileo to general relativity, a stimulating and timely analysis of how science works and why we need it It is only in the last...
The Light Ages: A Medieval Journey of Discovery
A spellbinding journey through the life of an English monk, an age of discovery and the mysteries of the medieval mind The Middle Ages were a time of wonder. They...
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
***NOW A MAJOR HOLLYWOOD FILM DIRECTED BY CHRISTOPHER NOLAN*** WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR NONFICTION 'Reads like a thriller, gripping and terrifying' - Sunday Times Physicist and polymath, as...
WTF?: What's the Future and Why It's Up to Us
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Who Built That: Awe-Inspiring Stories of American Tinkerpreneurs
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An Ancient Air
Examines the life of John Stringfellow of Chard, the first man to demonstrate that engine-powered winged flight was practicable. It reveals his lifelong obsession with aviation and seeks to shed...
Lives of Boulton and Watt
James Watt transformed steam engine technology by inventing the condensing engine. He collaborated with Matthew Boulton to form a engineering firm in 1773, which went on to monopolise production of...
The Everything Blueprint: The Microchip Design that Changed the World
**A Financial Times Best Summer Book 2023**Out now: a gripping look at the rise of the microchip and the British tech company behind the blueprint to it all.'A gripping and...
Pioneering Places of British Aviation: The Early Adventures of Powered
From as early as the beginning of the nineteenth century, Britain was at the forefront of powered flight. Across the country many places became centres of innovation and experimentation, as...
The First of Everything: A History of Human Invention, Innovation and
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A lively and highly readable account of the origins, invention and discovery of just about everything on the planet, the truly global coverage of The First of Everything ranges from...
The Life Scientific: Inventors
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Our Final Invention: Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human
'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...
Conquerors of Time: Exploration and Invention in the Age of Daring
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Nuts and Bolts: How Tiny Inventions Make Our World Work
*SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2023**AS HEARD ON RADIO 4 START THE WEEK, OFF AIR WITH FI AND JANE AND 99% INVISIBLE*'Delightful' TIM HARFORD, FINANCIAL TIMES'Appeals to...
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....
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...
Humphry Davy: Life Beyond the Lamp: Poet and Philosopher
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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...