Allen Lane, 2010 — 336 p. — ISBN10 9781846141614. In Pathfinders: The Golden Age of Arabic Science, Jim al-Khalili celebrates the forgotten pioneers who helped shape our understanding of the world. For over 700 years the international language of science was Arabic. Surveying the golden age of Arabic science, Jim Al-Khalili reintroduces such figures as the Iraqi physicist Ibn...
University of California Press, 2012. — 366 p. — ISBN 9780520273764, 0520273761. Natural history, the deliberate observation of the environment, is arguably the oldest science. From purely practical beginnings as a way of finding food and shelter, natural history evolved into the holistic, systematic study of plants, animals, and the landscape. «Deep Things out of Darkness»...
5th Edition. — MFG. Lab Press, 2020. — 211 р. The Maker Movement represents a dramatic shift towards the democratization of design, engineering, education, jobs and manufacturing. Advancements in new technologies such as desktop 3d printing and CNC machining are now putting powerful tools that were once only available to large institutions like NASA in the hands of millions of...
Penguin Books Ltd, 1993. — 1111 p. — (Penguin Press Science). — ISBN 9780140172133. Asimov tells the stories behind the science: the men and women who made the important discoveries and how they did it. Ranging from Galilei, Archimedes, Newton and Einstein, he takes the most complex concepts and explains it in such a way that a first-time reader on the subject feels confident...
Yesterday's Classics, 2006. — 300 p. Twelve stories of great inventions, grouped under inventions of steam and electric power, inventions of manufacture and production, and in ventions of printing and communication. The final chapter introduces the famous inventors of the early twentieth century. The story of each invention is interwoven with that of the life of its inventor....
DK, 2024. — 445 р. The Repair Shop's Dominic Chinea takes you on an exploration of 100 essential machines found in the workshops and studios of the world's finest artisans and heritage craftspeople.Filled with stunning illustrations and lively, engaging text, The Repair Shop's Dom Chinea guides readers through this celebration of the history and uses of 100 machines that have...
2nd Edition. — Greenwood, ABC-CLIO, 1998. — 144 p. — ISBN13: 978-1573561389. Named one of Library Journal's Best Sci-Tech Books in 1991, How the New Technology Works was praised as containing …a wealth of basic information on the frontiers of high technology. Now, this user-friendly guide has been substantially updated. It explains more than 40 high-tech topics in clear,...
Morgan James Publishing, 2011. — 252 p. — ISBN 9781614480488, 1614480486. America loves innovation and the can-do spirit that made this country what it is—a world leader in self-government, industry, technology, and pop culture. Everything about America has been an experiment and a leap of faith. And one such experiment—upon which all others depend for success — is the U.S....
Happy Yak, 2021. — 112 p. — ISBN 9780711263451, 9780711263444. How do you sum up the world's amazing inventions in just 100 words? This striking book takes on the challenge! From helicopters to fireworks, each of the carefully chosen 100 words has its own 100-word long description and quirky illustration, providing a fascinating introduction to inspiring inventions from history...
Allen Lane, 2005. — 352 p. — ISBN: 978071399745. From the bestselling author of Science: A History comes the enthralling story of a revolution that shook the world. Seventeenth-century England was racked by civil war, plague and fire; a world ruled by superstition and ignorance. A series of meetings of 'natural philosophers' in Oxford and London saw the beginning of a new...
Penguin Publishing Group, 2017. — 336 p.— ISBN: 9780735216136. Fifty Inventions That Shaped the Modern Economy paints an epic picture of change in an intimate way by telling the stories of the tools, people, and ideas that had far-reaching consequences for all of us. From the plough to artificial intelligence, from Gillette’s disposable razor to IKEA’s Billy bookcase,...
John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2002. — vi, 246 p. — ISBN: 0-471-40276-1, 978-0471402763. The common language of genius: Eureka! While the roads that lead to breakthrough scientific discovery can be as varied and complex as the human mind, the moment of insight for all scientists is remarkably similar. The word "eureka!", attributed to the ancient Greek mathematician Archimedes, has...
NY: Black Dog; Leventhal Publishers, 2018. — 267 p. — ISBN: 9780316438483 For the curious and the creators, Ingenious Patents tells the fascinating history of the inventors and their creations that have changed our world. Discover some of the most innovative of the 6.5 million patents that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted since Thomas Jefferson issued the first...
Riverhead Books, 2012. — 272 p. — ISBN 9781594488207, 1594488207. The main idea that Johnson promotes in Future Perfect is that productivity and innovation are best achieved through the collaborative efforts of a peer network rather than the restrictive structure of a hierarchical system. In a peer network, individuals aren’t as interested in competition or profit. Johnson...
Riverhead Books, 2015. — 320 p. — ISBN 978-0-698-15450-6 From the New York Times–bestselling author of Where Good Ideas Come From and Farsighted, a new look at the power and legacy of great ideas. In this illustrated history, Steven Johnson explores the history of innovation over centuries, tracing facets of modern life (refrigeration, clocks, and eyeglass lenses, to name a...
Penguin Young Readers Group, 2018. — 160 p. — ISBN 9780425287781, 0425287785. Did you drink a glass of water today? Did you turn on a light? Did you think about how miraculous either one of those things is when you did it? Of course not — but you should, and New York Times bestselling author Steven Johnson has. This adaptation of his adult book and popular PBS series explores...
Little, Brown and Company, 2021. — 368 p. From New York Times bestselling author Sam Kean comes the gripping, untold history of science's darkest secrets, “a fascinating book [that] deserves a wide audience” ( Publishers Weekly , starred review). Science is a force for good in the world—at least usually. But sometimes, when obsession gets the better of scientists, they twist a...
Bloomsbury Sigma, 2024. — 368 p. We love to imagine the future. But why are groundbreaking future technologies always just around the corner, and never a reality? For decades we've delighted in dreaming about a sci-fi utopia, from flying cars and bionic humans to hyperloops and smart cities. And why not? Building a better world - be it a free-flying commute or an automated...
Princeton Architectural Press, 2017. — 272 p. — ISBN: 9781616895280, 9781616895846. In this follow-up to his hugely popular The Book of Trees and Visual Complexity, Manuel Lima takes us on a lively tour through millennia of circular information design. Three hundred detailed and colorful illustrations from around the world cover an encyclopedic array of subjects--architecture,...
Simon & Schuster, 2014. — 352 p. Drawing on the lives of five great scientists, this “scholarly, insightful, and beautifully written book” (Martin Rees, author of From Here to Infinity ) illuminates the path to scientific discovery. Charles Darwin, William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), Linus Pauling, Fred Hoyle, and Albert Einstein all made groundbreaking contributions to their...
Vintage Digital, 2013. — 404 p. — ISBN 978-1845952129. In late eighteenth-century Britain a handful of men brought about the greatest transformation in human history. Inventors, industrialists and entrepreneurs ushered in the age of powered machinery and the factory, and thereby changed the whole of human society, bringing into being new methods of social and economic...
Weldon Owen, 2016. — 190 p. — ISBN: 161628966X. We take thousands of inventions for granted, using them daily and enjoying their benefits. But how much do we really know about their origins and development? This absorbing new book tells the stories behind the inventions that have changed the world, with details about- Convenience items, such as safety pins, toothbrushes, and...
Prometheus Books, 2015. — 400 p. — ISBN: 978-1-63388-031-3. Did you grow up thinking math is boring? It’s time to reconsider. This book will teach you everything you ever wondered about numbers—and more. How and why did human beings first start using numbers at the dawn of history? Would numbers exist if we Homo sapiens weren’t around to discover them? What’s so special about...
Publisher : Mango, 2018. — 256 p. — ISBN-10 1633538281; ISBN-13 978-1633538283. Learn the fascinating history and trivia you never knew about things we use daily from the host of The Story Behind podcast. Everyday objects and major events in history. Every single thing that surrounds us has a story behind it. Many of us learn the history of humans and the major inventions that...
Little, Brown and Company, 2012. — 760 p. — ISBN 9780316208192. 365 days of inventions, discoveries, science, and technology, from the editors of Wired Magazine. On January 30, Rubik applied for a patent on his cube (1975). On the next day, 17 years earlier, the first U.S. Satellite passed through the Van Allen radiation belt. On March 17, the airplane "black box" made its...
Frances Lincoln, 2021. — 272 p. From the ancient world to the present women have been critical to the progress of science, yet their importance is overlooked, their stories lost, distorted, or actively suppressed. Forces of Nature sets the record straight and charts the fascinating history of women’s discoveries in science. In the ancient and medieval world, women served as...
Pegasus Books, 2022. — 672 p. — ISBN: 978-1-63936-260-8 The rich and fascinating history of the scientific revolution of the Victorian Era, leading to transformative advances in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The Victorians invented the idea of the future. They saw it as an undiscovered country, one ripe for exploration and colonization. And to get us there, they...
Random House, 2010. — 400 p. — ISBN: 9780679603610,0679603611. If all measures of human advancement in the last hundred centuries were plotted on a graph, they would show an almost perfectly flat line—until the eighteenth century, when the Industrial Revolution would cause the line to shoot straight up, beginning an almost uninterrupted march of progress. In The Most Powerful...
Bloomsbury, 2021. — 128 p. — ISBN 978-1547602285, 1547602287. A fresh approach to a timely topic, Stolen Science is a fascinating compendium of stories of uncredited scientists and inventors throughout the ages. Over the centuries, women, people from underrepresented communities, and immigrants overcame prejudices and social obstacles to make remarkable discoveries in...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. — 120 р. This book helps decision makers grasp the importance, and applicability to business, of the new technologies and extended connectivity of systems that underlie what is becoming known as the Fourth Industrial Revolution: technologies and systems such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, 3D printing, the internet of things, virtual and...
Little, Brown and Company, 2016. — 320 p. — ISBN: 9780316410601. A thrilling exploration of the science and history of wind from the bestselling author of Cold. Scientist and bestselling nature writer Bill Streever goes to any extreme to explore wind- the winds that built empires, the storms that wreck them - by traveling right through it. Narrating from a fifty-year-old...
London, UK ; New York, NY : Anthem Press, an imprint of Wimbledon Publishing Company, 2018. — 332 p., illus. "A refreshing perspective on the importance of innovation throughout history thatprovides deep insight that is relevant for technology strategy today." John R. Hauser, Kirin Professor of Marketing, MIT Sloan School of Management. USA. "This book is a timely reminder that...
NY: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, 2018. — 333 p. — ISBN: 978-0-316-43926-8 For anyone curious about the nuts and bolts of human ingenuity, How Things Are Made is a fascinating exploration of the process behind the manufacture of everyday items. What are bulletproof vests made of? How do manufacturers get lipstick into the tube? How many layers are there in an iPhone screen?...
New York: Scientific American Edit., 2022. — (Scientific American ebooks). — ISBN 9781250121615. Sally Ride, the first American woman to go to space, once said that she didn't set out to be a role model, but after her first flight, she realized that she was one. Like her, the 12 women scientists in this collection became unintentional heroes through perseverance and hard work,...
Pen & Sword History, 2016. — 289 p. — ISBN: 9781473849020. We all know that some of the greatest inventions came from the Victorian age, the successors of which are still with us today. But this book is not entirely about those. It s more about some of the weird and wonderful inventions, ideas and projects some successful, others less so that have largely been forgotten. Where...
New York: Harper, 2018. — 416 p. — ISBN10: 0062652559; ISBN13: 978-0062652553 The revered New York Times bestselling author traces the development of technology from the Industrial Age to the Digital Age to explore the single component crucial to advancement—precision—in a superb history that is both an homage and a warning for our future. The rise of manufacturing could not...
М.: КоЛибри, Азбука-Аттикус, 2017. — 384 с. Чтобы понять конфликты и потрясения современности, нам следует заглянуть в прошлое и осознать: все это уже было. Пятьсот лет назад, во времена Ренессанса, Леонардо, Колумб, Коперник, Гутенберг и многие другие изменили свою эпоху и дали толчок к распространению знаний и расцвету творчества. Но уже тогда человечество столкнулось с обратной...
М.: АСТ, 2020. — 256 с. — (Взламывая науку). — ISBN: 978-5-17-119828-2. Земля — наш единственный дом, полный разнообразных чудес. Чтобы узнать их природу и свойства, ученые погружаются в темные глубины океана, наблюдают за стихийными атмосферными явлениями, такими как ураганы и смерчи, изучают камни под нашими ногами. В этой книге вы найдете добрую сотню историй о революционных...
Любительский перевод. — С оригинала: London: Reaktion Books Ltd, 2002. — 223 p. В то время как колючая проволока всегда пересекала собственность, войну и политику как инструмент контроля, у нее есть и другая история, созданная через изображения и тексты в искусстве, средствах массовой информации и популярной культуре, которые никогда ранее не рассматривались. Изобретенная во...
М.: Corpus, 2023. — 400 с. Майкл Маршалл – британский научный журналист, чьи статьи регулярно появляются на страницах Observer, Nature, New Scientist и Telegraph. Кроме того, он редактор веб-сайта ВВС Earth. широко известного телевизионного канала, специализирующегося на научной документалистике. "Великий квест" – первая книга Маршалла, давно и с увлечением занимающегося...
СПб.: Питер, 2011. — 208 с. ISBN: 978-5-49807-906-6 В техногенном мире мы чувствуем себя как рыба в воде. Но как развивались бы события, если бы одного из научных открытий не произошло, а другое запоздало на несколько лет? Сколько опасностей таят новейшие изобретения и как они могут изменить ближайшее будущее? Безопасен ли адронный коллайдер? Будут ли люди носить электронные...
М.: Центрполиграф, 2017. — 240 с. — (Великие изобретения и открытия). — ISBN 978-5-227-07644-1 Все прекрасно знают, что среди евреев много личностей, добившихся успеха в жизни, известных изобретателей, ученых, торговцев, владельцев компаний. И люди не могут понять, почему это так, в чем дело, каков секрет этого народа? Наука, культура, финансовая деятельность, медицина и...
Белгрод; Харьков: Книжный Клуб семейного досуга, 2018. — 225 с. — ISBN: 978-617-12-5203-5. Все мы со школьной скамьи знаем, что Колумб открыл Америку, Кук – Австралию, а Ньютон – автор трех знаменитых законов. Это аксиома. Но истории известен феномен «множественного открытия», когда изобретателя по каким-то причинам забывали, а его открытие приписывали другому человеку. Эта...
М.: Московские учебники и Картолитография, 2004. — 320 с. — (Ступени). — ISBN 5-7853-0380-9 (общ.), 5-7853-0381-7 (Кн. 1). Первая часть трилогии «Предчувствия и свершения». Заблуждения великих учёных – вот сюжет этой книги. Некоторые ошибочные теории просуществовали века. Они стимулировали мысль, заставляя искать выход из тупика. Весь прогресс человечества состоит из...
М.: Московские учебники и Картолитография, 2004. — 368 с. — (Ступени). — ISBN 5-7853-0380-9 (общ.), 5-7853-0382-5 (Кн. 2). Вторая часть трилогии «Предчувствия и свершения». В первой книге «Предчувствия и свершения» речь шла о заблуждениях учёных и ошибках науки, которые послужили трамплином для движения человеческой мысли вперёд. В процессе преодоления заблуждений учёные искали...
М.: Московские учебники и Картолитография, 2004. — 368 с. — (Ступени). — ISBN 5-7853-0380-9 (общ.), 5-7853-0380-9 (Кн. 3). Третья часть трилогии «Предчувствия и свершения» – об удивительной общности законов, пронизывающих жизнь природы, парадоксальных перекрестных связях различных областей знаний, о выдающихся открытиях на стыках разных наук. «Единство» выводит читателя на...
Москва: Центрполиграф, 2019. — 159 с. — ISBN: 978-5-227-08742-3. На обложке ошибочно указана фамилия автора - Стародубов. Мы привычно пользуемся многими вещами, не задумываясь, кто же их изобрел! Чистим зубы зубной пастой, жарим в тостере душистые гренки, ныряем на отдыхе с аквалангом, ездим на велосипеде, разгадываем кроссворды, рисуем карандашами… А ведь все эти изобретения и...
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