Category Archives: Inventions

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

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  • Cheap and Clean: How Americans Think About Energy in the Age of Global Warming

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  • Edison: A Life of Invention

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  • Inventions That Could Have Changed the World . . . But Didn’t!

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  • Remaking the John: The Invention and Reinvention of the Toilet

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  • The Brain Electric: The Dramatic High-Tech Race to Merge Minds and Machines

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  • Chilled: How Refrigeration Changed the World and Might Do So Again

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  • Imagination and a Pile of Junk: A Droll History of Inventors and Inventions

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  • Invention by Design: How Engineers Get from Thought to Thing

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  • Graeme Clark: The man who invented the bionic ear

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  • The Nature of Technology: What It Is and How It Evolves

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  • The Weather Experiment: The Pioneers who Sought to see the Future

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  • Haunted Empire: Apple After Steve Jobs

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

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  • Science Book a Day Interviews Ashlee Vance

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  • Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future

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  • Breakthrough: How One Teen Innovator Is Changing the World

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  • Kevin Orrman-Rossiter Reviews The Romantic Machine: Utopian Science and Technology after Napoleon

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  • See Inside Inventions (Usborne See Inside)

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  • How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World

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  • Allie Ford Reviews Smarter Than You Think: How Technology is Changing Our Minds for the Better

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  • Mark Brake’s Space, Time, Machine, Monster

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  • Steam-Powered Knowledge: William Chambers and the Business of Publishing, 1820-1860

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  • Patently Contestable: Electrical Technologies and Inventor Identities on Trial in Britain

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  • The Glass Cage: Automation and Us

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  • Extreme Medicine: How Exploration Transformed Medicine in the Twentieth Century

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  • The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution

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  • A Revolution in the Making: 3D Printing, Robots and the Future

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  • Science Book a Day Interviews Lawrence Goldstone

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  • Science Book a Day Interviews John Tresch

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  • Seven Elements That Have Changed The World: Iron, Carbon, Gold, Silver, Uranium, Titanium, Silicon

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  • From X-rays to DNA: How Engineering Drives Biology

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  • Birdmen: The Wright Brothers, Glenn Curtiss, and the Battle to Control the Skies

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  • Smarter Than You Think: How Technology is Changing Our Minds for the Better

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  • The Romantic Machine: Utopian Science and Technology after Napoleon

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  • The Measure of Manhattan: The Tumultuous Career and Surprising Legacy of John Randel, Jr., Cartographer, Surveyor, Inventor 

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  • Science Book a Day Interviews Morna E Gregory

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  • Science Book a Day Interviews Steve Hockensmith

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  • Toilets of the World

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  • Nick and Tesla’s High-Voltage Danger Lab: A Mystery with Electromagnets, Burglar Alarms, and Other Gadgets You Can Build Yourself

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  • Paul Lauterbur and the Invention of MRI

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  • Physics of the Future: How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100

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  • Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical Age

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  • 1001 Inventions that Changed the World

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