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Practical Electronics for Inventors 2ND Edition
by Paul Scherz  Publisher Comments THE BOOK THAT MAKES ELECTRONICS MAKE SENSEThis intuitive, applications-driven guide to electronics for hobbyists, engineers, and students doesn't overload readers with technical detail. Instead, it tells you-and shows you-what basic and advanced...
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Prodigal Genius: The Life of Nikola Tesla
by John J. O'Neill Publisher Comments Even the gods of old, in the wildest imaginings of their worshipers, never undertook such gigantic tasks of world-wide dimension as those which Tesla attempted and accomplished. -from Chapter One First published in 1944 and long a favorite of Tesla fans,...
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Success through Failure: The Paradox of Design
by Henry Petroski 
Powells.com Staff Pick Fear not! Despite the sound of the title, Success through Failure is blissfully free of the latest corporate management philosophies. Instead of business jargon, engineering and design author Henry Petroski focuses on the fascinating cycle of mistakes...
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Gadget Nation: A Journey Through the Eccentric World of Invention
by Steve Greenberg Publisher Comments Have you ever heard of bird diapers?Interested in a talking toilet paper dispenser?What about a motorized ice cream cone?Slippers with built-in headlights?Looking for a Kosher Lamp? These aren’t gag gadgets from some lame late night talk show...
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Innovation and Its Discontents: How Our Broken Patent System Is Endangering Innovation and Progress, and What to Do about It
by Adam B Jaffe Publisher Comments The United States patent system has become sand rather than lubricant in the wheels of American progress. Such is the premise behind this provocative and timely book by two of the nation's leading experts on patents and economic innovation. Innovation...
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Lightning Man: The Accursed Life of Samuel F. B. Morse
by Kenne Silverman Publisher Comments This brilliantly conceived biography is the very American tale of a quiet man, raised by religious zealots, who became a gifted and prolific painter (more than three hundred portraits and historical canvases), became the first Professor of Fine Arts at...
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The Ultimate Tesla Coil Design and Construction Guide
by Mitch Tilbury Synopsis The only book available to cover the Tesla coil in so much detail! The Ultimate Tesla Coil Design and Construction Guide is a one-stop reference covering the theory, design tools, and techniques necessary to create the Tesla coil using modern materials...
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Artscience: Creativity in the Post-Google Generation
by David Edwards Publisher Comments Scientists are famous for believing in the proven and peer-accepted, the very ground that pioneering artists often subvert; they recognize correct and incorrect where artists see only true and false. And yet in some individuals, crossover learning...
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The Patent Files: Dispatches from the Frontiers of Invention
by David Lindsay Book News Annotation A collection of lighthearted essays exploring the eccentric world of inventors, inventions, and patents. This world is peopled with inventors including a NASA consultant challenged with designing a solar-powered spaceship, and the father of the "no...
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Edison & the Electric Chair: A Story of Light and Death
by Mark Essig
Publisher Comments A "Discover" magazine Top Science Book <BR>Thomas Edison stunned America in 1879 by unveiling a world-changing invention--the light bulb--and then launching the electrification of America's cities. A decade later, despite having been an avowed...
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99 More Unuseless Japanese Inventions: The Art of Chindogu
by Kenji Kawakami Publisher Comments Back by popular demand! Following the massive success of 101 Unuseless Japanese Inventions, 99 more specimens of the art of Chindogu to amaze, confuse, and entertain. Chindogu is the Japanese word coined for the art of the unuseless idea -- weirdly...
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Signor Marconi's Magic Box: The Most Remarkable Invention of the 19th Century and the Amatuer Inventor Whose Genius Sparked a Revolution
by Gavin Weightman Publisher Comments The world at the turn of the twentieth century was in the throes of "Marconi-mania"?brought on by an incredible invention that no one could quite explain, and by a dapper and eccentric figure (who would one day win the newly minted Nobel Prize) at the...
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The Power Makers: Steam, Electricity, and the Men Who Invented Modern America
by Maury Klein Publisher Comments The dramatic story of the “power revolution” that turned America from an agrarian society into a technological superpower, and the dynamic, fiercely competitive inventors and entrepreneurs who made it happen—a riveting historical...
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Dark Light: Electricity and Anxiety from the Telegraph to the X-Ray
by Linda Simon Publisher Comments The modern world imagines that the invention of electricity was greeted with great enthusiasm. But in 1879, Americans reacted to the advent of electrification with suspicion and fear. Forty years after Thomas Edison invented the incandescent bulb, only...
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Success Through Failure: The Paradox of Design
by Henry Petroski Synopsis Design pervades our lives. Everything from drafting a PowerPoint presentation to planning a state-of-the-art bridge embodies this universal human activity. But what makes a great design? In this compelling and wide-ranging look at the essence of...
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Local Heroes
by Adam Hart Davis Synopsis A record of the stories of 50 pioneers of science, invention, and technology divided into categories such as wind and weather, food and drink, amazing machines and building blocks and roads. BBC2 covers the subjects in its series by the same name during...
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The Toy and Game Inventor's Handbook: Everything You Need to Know to Pitch, License, and Cash-In on Your Ideas
by Richard C Levy Publisher Comments One of the most recognized and successful toy and game inventors in the business teams up with the former head of research and development at Hasbro to bring clear, comprehensive information to aspiring toy and game inventors who just might invent the...
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The Last Lone Inventor: A Tale of Genius, Deceit, and the Birth of Television
by Evan I Schwartz Publisher Comments “ A gripping and eminently readable saga of the birth of television and the death of the Edisonian myth.”...
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Time Great Inventions: Geniuses and Gizmos: Innovation in Our Time
by Time Magazine Publisher Comments DESCRIPTION: From the way we communicate...to the way we travel....from the way we entertain ourselves to the way we do business in every aspect of our lives... it all is so radically different from the time of our grandparents. Now, the editors of TIME...
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Mr. Gatling's Terrible Marvel: The Gun That Changed Everything and the Misunderstood Genius Who Invented It
by Julia Keller Publisher Comments A Pulitzer Prize winner explores the role of the first machine gun in transforming America into a superpower Although it was little used during the American Civil Warthe time in which it was inventedthe Gatling gun soon changed the nature of warfare and...
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