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Tank: The 10 War Machines That Changed the World and the Remarkable
An authoritative history of the tank and the remarkable individuals who designed them and fought in them, from a former soldier and best-selling historian Tanks are the ultimate embodiment of...
The Seventy Great Inventions of the Ancient World
The Seventy Great Inventions of the Ancient World traces the course of human ingenuity and innovation from the first crude stone tools of our earliest ancestors two and a half...
Inventions of Our Generation
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From the dawn of civilization mankind has always employed and taken advantage of materials and inventions that made life easier, solved problems and otherwise eased the burden of modern living....
Brilliant Ideas: From the Wheel to the IPod
p>How the inventions that we use in day-to-day life came about/p>p>Brilliant Ideas is a beautifully designed book about the imagination, about how the inventions that we use in day-to-day life...
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...
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...
I, Woz: Computer Geek to Cult Icon: Getting to the Core of Apple's
After 25 years of avoiding the public eye, Steve Wozniak breaks his silence and tells the full story of the Apple computer, from its conception to his views on the...
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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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
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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...
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...
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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Frank Whittle (Icon Science): The Invention of the Jet
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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...