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Mad Science: Einstein's Fridge, Dewar's Flask, Mach's Speed, and 362 Other Inventions and Discoveries That Made Our World

by Randy Alfred

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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 maiden voyage (1953). And what about today? Every day of the year has a rich scientific and technological heritage just waiting to be uncovered, and Wired's top-flight science-trivia book MAD SCIENCE collects them chronologically, from New Year's Day to year's end, showing just how entertaining, wonderful, bizarre, and relevant science can be.

In 2010, Wired's popular This Day in Tech blog peaked with more than 700,000 page views each month, and one story in 2008 drew more than a million unique viewers. This book will collect the most intriguing anecdotes from the blog's run-one for each day of the year-and publish them in a package that will instantly appeal to hardcore techies and curious laypeople alike.

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Waney, December 29, 2012 (view all comments by Waney)
I really liked this book. It is full of interesting facts about ordinary things we use everyday. It was written in a way where you could read one entry a day or just sit down with it and gobble it all up in big chunks. It had other little factoids on each page that went with the date of the discoveries that were written about. It was cross referenced so I would find myself flipping back and forth through the book but interesting enough that I would read some entries the second time I came to them and still enjoy it as much as the first time. I was amazed at how many great things were discovered by accident and chance.

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ISBN:

9780316208192

Author:

Alfred, Randy

Publisher:

Little Brown and Company

Subject:

REFERENCE / Trivia

Subject:

History of Science-General

Publication Date:

20121131

Binding:

HARDCOVER

Language:

English

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