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Lavishly illustrated with more than 200 images.

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Author:   Paul Virr ,  William Potter (Author)
Publisher:   Arcturus Publishing Ltd
Imprint:   Arcturus Publishing Ltd
ISBN:  

9781838574215

ISBN 10:   1838574212
Pages:   208
Publication Date:   01 January 2022
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Introduction Imhotep Archimedes Ctesibius Vitruvius Heron of Alexandria Zhang Heng Apollodorus of Damascus Ismail Al-Jazari Filippo Brunelleschi Mariano di Jacopo:II Taccola Leonardo da Vinci Cornelis Drebbel Christiaan Huygens Robert Hooke Thomas Newcomen John Harrison James Watt Thomas Teleford Richard Trevithick George Cayley George & Robert Stephenson Michael Faraday Isambard Kingdom Brunel John, Washington & Emily Roebling Joseph Bazalgette Nikolaus Otto William Le Baron Jenney Gottlieb Daimler Thomas Edison Alexander Graham Bell Vladimir Shukhov Hertha Ayrton Nikola Tesla Granville Woods Rudolf Diesel August & Louis Lumiére Wilbur & Orville Wright Guglielmo Marconi Lillian Moller Gilbreth Robert H. Goddard Nora Stanton Blatch Barney Olive Dennis Tachu Naito Verena Holmes Igor Sikorsky R. Buckminster Fuller Irmgard Flügge-Lotz Frank Whittle Werner von Braun Fazlur Rahman Khan

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Paul Virr is an author and editor who has written extensively on science and technology over the last twenty years. A former SEM ambassador with Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution and former editor for the Auropean Space Agency, he has produced official guides for UK museums and now lives in Rome, Italy. William Potter has been writing and editing non-fiction titles for more than two decades, covering diverse subjects such as new technology, space travel, history, prehistoric life, comics and fantasy-art creation, along with numerous educational STEM titles and puzzle books for school-age readers.

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