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The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation
by Jon Gertner
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A More Perfect Heaven: How Copernicus Revolutionized the Cosmos
by Dava Sobel
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By 1514, the reclusive cleric Nicolaus Copernicus had developed an initial outline of his heliocentric theory-in which he defied common sense and received wisdom to place the sun, and not the earth, at the center of our universe, and set the earth... (read more)

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In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives
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Victorian Scientist (British Library)
by Jack Meadows
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The Day We Found the Universe
by Marcia Bartusiak
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Darwin's Devices: What Evolving Robots Can Teach Us about the History of Life and the Future of Technology
by John Long
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The Tinkerers: The Amateurs, Diyers, and Inventors Who Make America Great
by Alec Foege
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Inventing the 21st Century
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Adventures from the Technology Underground: Catapults, Pulsejets, Rail Guns, Flamethrowers, Tesla Coils, Air Cannons and the Garage Warriors Who Love Them
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Inventing the American Dream a History of Curious Extraordinary & Just Plain Useful Patents
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Creations of Fire: Chemistry's Lively History from Alchemy to the Atomic Age
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