Inventions

The Ritz, the Savoy, the Dorchester and Claridge's - during the Second World War they teemed with spies, con-artists, deposed royals and the exiled governments of Europe. And now, Matthew Sweet's West End Front is just as teeming with the incredible cast...

Samuel Smiles published Lives of the Engineers in 1862. The noted biographer presented his engineers as heroic progress makers who conquered nature and overcame impossible obstacles to drive the Industrial Revolution forward, but included twisted and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of ALA Notable Books (Nonfiction) 2016.Book InformationISBN 9781476728742Author David McCulloughFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon...

*A Wall Street Journal Business Bestseller*'A deeply reported and business-savvy chronicle of Tesla's wild ride' --Walter Isaacson'A masterclass in narrative journalism' --Bradley Hope'Exemplary' --The Times'An exceptional work' --Washington Post Inside...

The history of penicillin.About the AuthorKevin Brown has been Trust Archivist and Alexander Fleming Laboratory Museum Curator at St Mary's NHS Trust, Paddington since 1989. Educated at Hertford College, Oxford and at University College, London, he is...

In The Nature of Technology, ground-breaking economist W. Brian Arthur explores the extraordinary way in which the technology that surrounds us and allows us to live our modern lives has actually been developed. Rather than coming from a series of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781603868143Author Nikola TeslaFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint Merchant BooksPublisher Merchant BooksWeight(grams) 91gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 3mm

Foreword by Jonathan Haidt, author of THE RIGHTEOUS MINDAn invaluable guide to understanding the technology that captures our attention with anger.The original internet was not designed to make us upset, distracted, confused, and outraged. But something...

From Steven Johnson, the bestselling author of Where Good Ideas Come From, comes How We Got to Now, the companion book to his six-part BBC One television series exploring the power and the legacy of great ideas.How did photography bring about social...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780804169721Author Sharon WeinbergerFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA Inc

The Internet once promised to be a place of extraordinary freedom beyond the control of money or politics, but today corporations and platforms exercise more control over our ability to access information and share knowledge to a greater extent than any...

In the last few decades, steampunk has blossomed from being a rather obscure and little-known subgenre of science fiction into a striking and distinctive style of fashion, art, design and even music. It is in the written word however that steampunk has...

Learn how to use Autodesk Fusion 360 to digitally model your own original projects for a 3D printer or a CNC device.About the AuthorLydia Sloan Cline teaches digital modeling and 3D printing at Johnson County Community College. She is a 3D printing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780980231632Author James DeMeoFormat PaperbackPage Count 262Imprint Natural Energy WorksPublisher Natural Energy WorksWeight(grams) 308gDimensions(mm) 216mm...

Benjamin Franklin's account of his rise from poverty and obscurity to affluence and fame is a self-portrait of a quintessential American which has charmed every generation of readers since it first appeared in 1791. Begun as a collection of anecdotes for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250770745Author Michael WooldridgeFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Flatiron BooksPublisher Flatiron BooksWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 224mm *...

Rich with tales of discovery from Galileo to general relativity, a stimulating and timely analysis of how science works and why we need it. 'The best introduction to the scientific enterprise that I know. A wonderful and important book' David Wootton,...

The book is a collection of inter-linked essays, each dealing with a significant figure in the emergence of Britain as an industrial powerhouse in the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries. It is illustrated with drawings, patents, early historic images...

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

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...

An introduction to fifty extraordinary discoveries, inventions and designs by inspirational women. From windscreen wipers to the life raft; coffee filters to emergency flares; Apollo Mission software to Monopoly: women have discovered, invented and...

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 *...

Nature produces energy by slow, cool, implosive means - by a centripeta inward motion, while our presnt culture uses explosive centrifugal (outwards) movement, which is wasteful and many times less powerful and effective. It aslo uses up the Earth's...

The Google Story is the definitive account of one of the most remarkable organizations of our time. Every day over sixty-four million people use Google in more than one hundred languages, running billions of searches for information on everything and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783000638787Author Patrick WeinandFormat HardbackPage Count 202Imprint Pw-Media24Publisher Pw-Media24Weight(grams) 757gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 216mm * 13mm

Before the 1970s, for anything but basic arithmetic, a pen and paper was needed, and complex calculations required a slide rule or logarithm tables. Electronic calculators were in use in the 1960s, but they were based on valve or transistor technology,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143128328Author Steve LevineFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 274g

'Ferrara's book is an introduction to writing as a process of revelation, but it's also a celebration of these things still undeciphered, and many other tantalising mysteries besides.' - The SpectatorThis book tells the story of our greatest invention...

'Elegant and multi-focal. Glorious!' Simon GarfieldThe humble pair of glasses might just be one the world's greatest inventions, allowing millions to see a world that might otherwise appear a blur. And yet how much do many of us even really think about...

As Joe Biden has shown us all, the best is yet to come. Here are the stories of the inspiring, inventive, and brave things people have achieved in later life. With a foreword by Michael Whitehall, late bloomer par excellence.With life comes perspective,...

A lively and endlessly fascinating deep-dive into nature and the many groundbreaking human inventions inspired by the wild."Delightful."—The Guardian"Fans of Helen Scales won't want to miss this."—Publishers Weekly STARRED ReviewWhen astronomers wanted a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780684867304Author Witold RybczynskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 173Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 140gDimensions(mm) 190mm *...

A miscellany of actual patents for wonderfully bizarre inventions, Brilliantly Bad is a salute to what the human mind can achieve - even if it probably shouldn't. This collection of the strangest ideas ever patented,...

The conventional wisdom on how technology will change the future is wrong. Mark Mills lays out a radically different and optimistic vision for what's really coming.The mainstream forecasts fall into three camps. One considers today as the "new normal,"...

What is innovation? How is innovation used in business? How can we use it to succeed? Innovation, the ways ideas are made valuable, plays an essential role in economic and social development, and is an increasingly topical issue. Over the last 150...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781603861717Author James PartonFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Merchant BooksPublisher Merchant BooksWeight(grams) 100gDimensions(mm) 235mm * 191mm *...

Robert Kanigel takes us into the heady world of a remarkable group of scientists working at the National Institutes of Health and the Johns Hopkins University: a dynasty of American researchers who for over forty years have made Nobel Prize- and Lasker...

Genius Inventions gives readers an unprecedented insight into the events, people and histories behind technological and scientific developments that have helped shape modern civilization. Discover the inspiration for some of the most important moments in...

'More than just a memoir. A manifesto for a whole way of thinking' Daily Mail'An idiosyncratic and gripping memoir about his life and the indomitable career of the Cube' Observer'The rise and enduring power of the world's most popular puzzle toy . . ...

Can you imagine what today's technology would have looked like in the Victorian Era? That's the world Steampunk envisions: a mad-inventor collection of 21st Century-inspired contraptions powered by stream and driven by gears. It's more than just a...