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A Brief History of the Future: From Radio Days to Internet Years in a LifetimeClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
A history and celebration of the scientists and engineers whose vision and determination led to the Internet.
author: John Naughton |
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Brief History of the Future: From Radio Days to Internet Years in a LifetimeClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
A history and celebration of the scientists and engineers whose vision and determination led to the Internet.
author: John Naughton |
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Curious Life of Robert Hooke - The Man Who Measured LondonClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Engaging biography of Robert Hooke, a 17th century engineer, surveyor, architect and inventor who was appointed London?s Chief Surveyor after the Great Fire of 1666. Although Hooke and his works are l...
author: Lisa Jardine |
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Man Who Changed How Boys and Toys Were MadeClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Chronicles the life of A.C. Gilbert, a man who never lost his boy-at-heart, and was the inventor of the Erector Sets, as well as an Olympic pole-vaulter, magician, doctor, marketing genius, and radio ...
author: Bruce Watson |
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October SkyClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Originally published under the title Rocket Boys, this is the memoir of a young boy from a West Virginia coal mining town in 1957 who dreamed of sending rockets into space. He and a small group of fr...
author: Homer H. Hickam, Jr. |
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Rocket Boys: A MemoirClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
An entertaining memoir of Hicham's hard-life boyhood in a West Virginia mining community and his struggle to find his place until one evening changed his life, and those of his friends, and led to his...
author: Homer H. Hickam, Jr. |
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Small Things Considered: Why There Is No Perfect DesignClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
A look at the design of the ordinary items of our every-day lives, from light switches to toothbrushes; paper cups to duct tape and Velcro, to demonstrate the brilliance of simple design and the human...
author: Henry Petroski |
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Soul of a New MachineClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Pulitzer Prize winning investigative story of the inner workings of Data General Corporation's research team of young computer wizards who were slated with the task of creating the fastest computer in...
author: Tracy Kidder |
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Steven Caney's Ultimate Building BookClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
This comprehensive exploration of structural design, construction, and invention complimented with thousands of black-and-white photographs and illustrations will be of interest to children, teens and...
author: Steven Caney |
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The Curious Life of Robert Hooke - The Man Who Measured LondonClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Engaging biography of Robert Hooke, a 17th century engineer, surveyor, architect and inventor who was appointed London?s Chief Surveyor after the Great Fire of 1666. Although Hooke and his works are l...
author: Lisa Jardine |
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The Man Who Changed How Boys and Toys Were MadeClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Chronicles the life of A.C. Gilbert, a man who never lost his boy-at-heart, and was the inventor of the Erector Sets, as well as an Olympic pole-vaulter, magician, doctor, marketing genius, and radio ...
author: Bruce Watson |
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The Soul of a New MachineClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Pulitzer Prize winning investigative story of the inner workings of Data General Corporation's research team of young computer wizards who were slated with the task of creating the fastest computer in...
author: Tracy Kidder |
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Why Buildings Stand Up: The Strength of ArchitectureClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
This is the story of the functional structure of architecture - the science behind the art of building design - through a biography of the world's most significant architecture, from pyramids to brid...
author: Mario Salvadori |
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