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Middlesbrough and Teesside are renowned for their association with the iron and steel industry. Iron has been produced there on an industrial scale since the 1850s, when Cleveland ironstone was discovered in the Eston Hills. By 1866, there were...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743299558Author James BurkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & Schuster

THE FINANCIAL TIMES BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR This absorbing collective biography of the genius Nobel family reveals how the Nobels' business and personal lives were fundamentally intertwined with the histories of Sweden and Russia, as well as the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780874744910Author Clarence L. JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Smithsonian BooksPublisher Smithsonian BooksWeight(grams) 312gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780985142421Author Robert GaskinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Vinland BooksPublisher Vinland BooksWeight(grams) 744gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262546881Author Nancy G. LevesonFormat HardbackPage Count 688Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

Alan Turing is regarded as one of the greatest scientists of the 20th century. But who was Turing, and what did he achieve during his tragically short life of 41 years? Best known as the genius who broke Germany's most secret codes during the war of...

What exactly is White Elephant Technology?White Elephant Technology is any unusual invention past or present that fails in the marketplace despite its innovative nature. From jeeps that fly to tanks that shouldn't; from a wave-powered boat that took over...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375758935Author Martha AckmannFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Random House Trade PaperbacksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Honorable Mention, 2017 PROSE Awards, History of Science, Medicine and Technology category 2017 and Winner, 2017 Wayne S. Vucinich Prize, sponsored by the...

"This makes entertaining reading. Many accounts of the birth of personal computing have been written, but this is the first close look at the drug habits of the earliest pioneers." -New York TimesMost histories of the personal computer industry focus on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781515438205Author Nikola TeslaFormat HardbackPage Count 136Imprint Wilder PublicationsPublisher Wilder PublicationsWeight(grams) 354gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

'Excellent . . . This is narrative history of the highest quality' Andrew Lycett, Sunday Telegraph'Wonderfully engrossing and intelligent . . . clever and entertaining' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday TimesHEYDAY brings to life one of the most extraordinary...

The conventional understanding of Japanese wartime ideology has for years been summed up by just a few words: anti-modern, spiritualist, and irrational. Yet such a cut-and-dried picture is not at all reflective of the principles that guided national...

Cornwall marks the extreme south-western extent of Brunel's kingdom and the county is surprisingly rich in his works. The Royal Albert Bridge, which crosses the River Tamar, connected the broad gauge network with the Cornwall and West Cornwall railways -...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781504051958Author Henry S. F. Cooper, Jr.Format PaperbackPage Count 162Imprint Open Road MediaPublisher Open Road Media

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781931882613Author Joseph P. FarrellFormat PaperbackPage Count 460Imprint Adventures Unlimited PressPublisher Adventures Unlimited PressWeight(grams) 1g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780964107090Author Thomas ValoneFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Integrity Research InstitiutePublisher Integrity Research InstitiuteWeight(grams) 233g

This book traces and analyzes the transformation of the public discourse of science and technology in Mao-era China. Based on extensive primary sources such as science dissemination materials and technical handbooks, as well as mass media products of the...

"Made me look at the industrial revolution, invention, sleeping beauties, contexts and the forces that shape our societies differently."-David Byrne, New York Times Book ReviewHow the history of technological revolutions can help us better understand...

This book is a unique attempt to capture the growing societal experience of living in an age unlike anything the world has ever seen. Fueled by the perception of acquiring unprecedented powers through technologies that entangle the human and the natural...

On a moonless night in January 1991, a dozen U.S. aircraft appeared in the skies over Baghdad. To the Iraqi air defenses, the planes seemed to come from nowhere. Their angular shape, making them look like flying origami, rendered them virtually...

In August 1968, NASA made a bold decision: in just sixteen weeks, the United States would launch humankind's first flight to the moon. Only the year before, three astronauts had burned to death in their spacecraft, and since then the Apollo program had...

Soon to be a major motion picture starring Golden Globe-winner Taraji P. Henson and Academy Award-winners Octavia Spencer and Kevin Costner Set against the backdrop of the Jim Crow South and the civil rights movement, the never-before-told true story of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780473493080Author Fletcher McKenzieFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Squabbling Sparrows PressPublisher Squabbling Sparrows PressWeight(grams) 494g

"Made me look at the industrial revolution, invention, sleeping beauties, contexts and the forces that shape our societies differently."-David Byrne, New York Times Book ReviewHow the history of technological revolutions can help us better understand...

At the time of its construction, the Forth Bridge was the largest bridge in the world, and to this day it remains a breathtaking monument to the vision and confidence of the Victorian age which created it. For seven years, thousands of men from all over...

The key to understanding technology lies not in the future--but in the past. That's the contention of Lizzie O'Shea's Future Histories, a grand tour through past and present to explore the practical--and sometimes revolutionary--possibilities of our...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250231345Author Sarah ParcakFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Holt McDougalPublisher Holt McDougal

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476728759Author David McCulloughFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 522gDimensions(mm) 231mm *...

Tycho Brahe (1546-1601), the premier patron-practitioner of science in sixteenth-century Europe, established a new role of scientist as administrator, active reformer, and natural philosopher. This book explores Brahe's wide range of activities which...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956507204Author Tristan DonovanFormat PaperbackPage Count 516Imprint Yellow AntPublisher Yellow AntWeight(grams) 751gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 29mm

This richly detailed 1981 biography captures both the personal life and the scientific career of Isaac Newton, presenting a fully rounded picture of Newton the man, the scientist, the philosopher, the theologian, and the public figure. Professor Westfall...

Why exactly is the Earth round? How is it that boomerangs can turn in mid-air? And why do cats always land on their feet? It's time to stop thinking in straight lines... 'A wonderfully fascinating book with answers to so many everyday...

A "meticulously researched" (The New York Times Book Review) examination of energy transitions over time and an exploration of the current challenges presented by global warming, a surging world population, and renewable energy-from Pulitzer Prize- and...

This extraordinary book reveals the engineering know-how of the ancient Greeks and Romans, explores in fascinating detail how they developed and constructed their machines, and considers how the same principles are used in modern-day engineering. The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262545150Author Mario CarpoFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781101983898Author Jim BellFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint E P Dutton & Co IncPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 261g

On a cold January morning in 1986, NASA launched the Space Shuttle Challenger, despite warnings against doing so by many individuals including Allan McDonald. The fiery destruction of Challenger on live television moments after launch remains an...

This 1993 volume is a lucid and accurate history of the technical research that led to the first atomic bombs. The authors explore how the 'critical assembly' of scientists, engineers and military personnel at Los Alamos, responding to wartime deadlines,...