Category Archives: Inventions

  • Loonshots: How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas That Win Wars, Cure Diseases, and Transform Industries

    0 August 12, 2019 standard

  • Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World by Clive Thompson

    0 May 27, 2019 standard

  • Wayfinding: The Science and Mystery of How Humans Navigate the World

    0 April 8, 2019 standard

  • The Penguin Book of Outer Space Exploration: NASA and the Incredible Story of Human Spaceflight

    0 March 4, 2019 standard

  • Iqbal and His Ingenious Idea: How a Science Project Helps One Family and the Planet

    0 October 2, 2018 standard

  • The Upstarts: How Uber, Airbnb, and the Killer Companies of the New Silicon Valley Are Changing the World

    0 August 2, 2018 standard

  • The Graphene Revolution: The weird science of the ultra-thin

    0 July 30, 2018 standard

  • The Mighty Mars Rovers: The Incredible Adventures of Spirit and Opportunity (Scientists in the Field Series)

    0 July 12, 2018 standard

  • The Design of Everyday Things

    0 July 7, 2018 standard

  • Close Encounters: Exploring the Universe With the Hubble Telescope

    0 July 5, 2018 standard

  • Soonish: Ten Emerging Technologies That’ll Improve and/or Ruin Everything

    0 June 13, 2018 standard

  • Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

    0 May 27, 2018 standard

  • Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time

    0 May 10, 2018 standard

  • A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution

    0 May 7, 2018 standard

  • The Telescope in the Ice: Inventing a New Astronomy at the South Pole

    0 February 13, 2018 standard

  • Cræft: An Inquiry Into the Origins and True Meaning of Traditional Crafts

    0 February 12, 2018 standard

  • Plucked: A History of Hair Removal

    0 February 9, 2018 standard

  • Most Wonderful Machine: Mechanization and Social Change in Berkshire Paper Making, 1801-1885

    0 February 6, 2018 standard

  • Atomic Adventures: Secret Islands, Forgotten N-Rays, and Isotopic Murder: A Journey into the Wild World of Nuclear Science

    0 February 1, 2018 standard

  • Australia in Space: A History of a Nation’s Involvement

    0 January 31, 2018 standard

  • The Calendar: The 5000 Year Struggle to Align the Clock and the Heavens, and What Happened to the Missing Ten Days

    0 December 31, 2017 standard

  • Toilet (How it Works)

    0 December 28, 2017 standard

  • Decoding the Heavens: A 2,000-Year-Old Computer and the Century-Long Search to Discover Its Secrets

    0 December 16, 2017 standard

  • Beauty and the Beak: How Science, Technology, and a 3D-Printed Beak Rescued a Bald Eagle

    0 November 16, 2017 standard

  • Bad Ideas? An Arresting History of Our Inventions

    0 November 12, 2017 standard

  • The Soul of A New Machine

    0 November 8, 2017 standard

  • Looking Inside the Brain: The Power of Neuroimaging

    0 November 7, 2017 standard

  • Voyaging in Strange Seas: The Great Revolution in Science

    0 October 3, 2017 standard

  • Geek Girl Rising: Inside the Sisterhood Shaking Up Tech

    0 August 11, 2017 standard

  • Hitting the Brakes: Engineering Design and the Production of Knowledge

    0 July 19, 2017 standard

  • Spare Parts: Four Undocumented Teenagers, One Ugly Robot, and the Battle for the American Dream

    0 March 22, 2017 standard

  • Satellite: Innovation in orbit

    0 February 27, 2017 standard

  • Hedy’s Folly: The Life and Breakthrough Inventions of Hedy Lamarr, the Most Beautiful Woman in the World

    0 January 3, 2017 standard

  • Driverless: Intelligent Cars and the Road Ahead

    0 December 27, 2016 standard

  • The Wright Brothers

    0 December 10, 2016 standard

  • How to Make a Spaceship: A band of renegades, an epic race, and the birth of private spaceflight

    0 November 16, 2016 standard

  • The Difference Engine

    0 July 6, 2016 standard

  • A Million Years in a Day: A Curious History of Everyday Life

    0 June 29, 2016 standard

  • Alicia Sometimes Reviews The Quantum Age: How The Physics Of The Very Small Has Transformed Our Lives

    0 June 16, 2016 standard

  • The Quantum Age: How The Physics Of The Very Small Has Transformed Our Lives

    0 June 15, 2016 standard

  • How Machines Work: Zoo Break!

    0 June 10, 2016 standard

  • Electrical Wizard: How Nikola Tesla Lit Up the World

    0 June 3, 2016 standard

  • Flying Buttresses, Entropy and O-Rings: The World of an Engineer

    0 June 1, 2016 standard

  • When Computing Got Personal: A history of the desktop computer

    0 May 10, 2016 standard

  • The Elements of Power: Gadgets, Guns, and the Struggle for a Sustainable Future in the Rare Metal Age

    0 April 21, 2016 standard

  • How Music Got Free: The End of an Industry, the Turn of the Century, and the Patient Zero of Piracy

    0 April 1, 2016 standard

  • Seven Wonders of the Industrial World

    0 March 9, 2016 standard

  • Renee Webster Reviews The Boy Who Played with Fusion: Extreme Science, Extreme Parenting, and How to Make a Star

    0 February 11, 2016 standard

  • Science Book a Day Interviews Scott Huler

    0 February 8, 2016 standard

  • Linden Ashcroft Reviews Defining the Wind: The Beaufort Scale and How a 19th-Century Admiral Turned Science into Poetry

    0 February 4, 2016 standard