Inventions & inventors books

Includes over 25 mechanisms invented exclusively for the infliction of pain and the ending of life, each researched...  Read More >>

Covers several inventions: from the spear to the printing press to the computer: This book tells who created everything...  Read More >>

A masterly account of the genius of Leonardo da Vinci and his vision of the world, generously illustrated throughout,...  Read More >>

This book is about a Golden Age of civilization from 600 to 1600, often regarded as the Dark Ages.  Read More >>

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Sobel presents the dramatic human story of an epic scientific quest and of John Harrison's 40-year obsession with...  Read More >>

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Be the world's next millionaire inventor! Watch out-avoid all the mistakes, bloopers, errors, andmess-ups that...  Read More >>

From the moment the alarm clock wakes us in the morning until the time we switch the light off at night, we are...  Read More >>

"Based on the immense, authoritative scholarship of the late Joseph Needham, the world's foremost scholar of Chinese...  Read More >>

Whether you dream of making a better mousetrap or launching pumpkins into the stratosphere, Ingenium will tickle...  Read More >>

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An Unabridged Printing Of The Seventh Edition, Subtitled: A Handbook For Electricians And Operators. 1. Origin Of...  Read More >>

In 1879, Thomas Alva Edison invented the first practical incandescent electric light in his Menlo Park, New Jersey,...  Read More >>

Addresses questions such as: how do you go from an idea to a money-making product? What's the best way to protect...  Read More >>

Assesses the legacy of R Buckminster Fuller, a scientist-artist-engineer. This book portrays the creative and individual...  Read More >>

Inside Your Calculator answers questions about one of those devices: the scientific calculator. Calculator keys...  Read More >>

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The history of science is littered with mad, bad and delightfully dotty inventions, from a bicycle powered by its...  Read More >>

How did the popularity of underwear in the twelfth century lead to the invention of the printing press? How did...  Read More >>

Boston Firsts is about everything (well, almost!) that happened first in Boston and changed life elsewhere: from...  Read More >>

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"Roboticist and creator of the runaway success How To Survive A Robot Uprising, which the New York Times called...  Read More >>