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A Thread Across the Ocean: The Heroic Story of the Transatlantic Cable
by John Steele Gordon
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Today, in a world in which news flashes around the globe in an instant, time lags are inconceivable. In the mid-nineteenth century, communication between the United States and Europe?the center of world affairs?was only as quick as the fastest ship could... ( read more)
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Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
by Dava Sobel
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"An account of the man who developed the technology which allowed sailors to determine their longitude at sea. If you don't know where you are, it's hard to know where you're going, whether you've gotten there or if you've missed your target. If, while... ( read more)
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Leviathan and the Air-Pump: Hobbes, Boyle, and the Experimental Life
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In the aftermath of the English Civil War, as people were groping for new forms of political order, Robert Boyle built an air-pump to do experAAA1/2iments. Does the story of Roundheads and Restoration have something to do with the origins of experimental... ( read more)
The Measure of All Things: The Seven-Year Odyssey and Hidden Error That Transformed the World
by Ken Alder
From Powells.com
You might not imagine that a simple unit of measurement could qualify as
an explosive secret, driving scientific men to the limits of their sanity.
But the length of the meter — conceived as one ten-millionth of the
distance from the pole... ( read more)
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Masterworks of Technology: The Story of Creative Engineering, Architecture, and Design
by E. E. Lewis
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An exploration of how engineering, science, architecture, and design came together through the ages to create the technological world of the 21st century.... ( read more)
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The Universal Computer
by Martin Davis
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"The Universal Computer" traces the development of computer concepts by exploring with captivating detail the lives and work of the geniuses who first formulated them. Readers can come away with a revelatory understanding of how and why computers work... ( read more)
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Gadget Nation: A Journey Through the Eccentric World of Invention
by Steve Greenberg
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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... ( read more)
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The Soul of a New Machine
by Tracy Kidder
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Computers have changed since 1981, when Tracy Kidder indelibly recorded the drama, comedy, and excitement of one company's efforts to bring a new microcomputer to market. What has changed little, however, is computer culture: the feverish pace of the... ( read more)
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Ghost Hunters: William James and the Search for Scientific Proof of Life After Death
by Deborah Blum
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What if a world-renowned professor of psychology at Harvard University, a doctor and scientist acclaimed as one of the leading intellects of the time, suddenly announced that he believed in ghosts? At the close of the nineteenth century, to great public... ( read more)
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In the Beginning...Was the Command Line
by Neal Stephenson
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About twenty years ago Jobs and Wozniak, the founders of Apple, came up with the very strange idea of selling information-processing machines for use in the home. The business took off, and its founders made a lot of money and received the credit they... ( read more)
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The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's On-Line Pioneers
by Tom Standage
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In the 19th century, the first online communications network was in place. The saga of the telegraph offers parallels to that of the Internet and is a remarkable episode in technological history.... ( read more)
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Minds, Machines, and the Multiverse: The Quest for the Quantum Computer
by Julian R Brown
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The traditional and ubiquitous digital computer has changed the world by processing series of binary ones and zeroes...very fast. Like the sideshow juggler spinning plates on billiard cues, the classical computer moves fast enough to keep the plates... ( read more)
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Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
by Dava Sobel
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Anyone alive in the eighteenth century would have known that “the longitude problem” was the thorniest scientific dilemma of the dayand had been for centuries. Lacking the ability to measure their longitude, sailors throughout the great ages... ( read more)
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The Last Lone Inventor: A Tale of Genius, Deceit, and the Birth of Television
by Evan I Schwartz
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“ A gripping and eminently readable saga of the birth of television and the death of the Edisonian myth.”... ( read more)
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Absolute Zero : and the Conquest of Cold (99 Edition)
by Tom Shachtman
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In this engrossing scientific chronicle, a perennial paperback favorite, Tom Shachtman combines science, history, and adventure in the story of our four-centuries-long quest to master the secrets of cold. Now a documentary based largely on Shachtman&... ( read more)
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Small Things Considered: Why There Is No Perfect Design
by Henry Petroski
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Why has the durable paper shopping bag been largely replaced by its flimsy plastic counterpart? What circuitous chain of improvements led to such innovations as the automobile cup holder and the swiveling vegetable peeler? With the same relentless... ( read more)
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Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years of Lockheed
by Ben Rich
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Skunk Works is the true story, told for the first time, of America's most secret and successful aerospace operation. As recounted by Ben Rich, the operation's brilliant boss for nearly two decades, the story of Lockheed's legendary Skunk Works is a high... ( read more)
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Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age
by Paul Graham
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"The computer world is like an intellectual Wild West, in which you can shoot anyone you wish with your ideas, if you're willing to risk the consequences. "
--from Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age, by Paul Graham
We... ( read more)
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The Change Function: Why Some Technologies Take Off and Others Crash and Burn
by Pip Coburn
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The ultimate guide to predicting winners and losers in high technology Pip Coburn became famous for writing some of the liveliest reports on Wall Street. He quoted everyone from Machiavelli to HAL, Anas Nin to Yoda, Einstein to Gandhi. But along with the... ( read more)
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Future Tech: Innovations in Transportation
by Paul Schilperoord
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From Leonardo da Vinci's fantastic visions, to Richard Branson's plans to offer commercial space travel by 2010, visionaries and entrepreneurs have long dreamed of how we will travel in the future. Future Tech: Innovations in Transportation is a... ( read more)
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