Inventions & Inventors

The Art and Science of Frugal Innovation comes at a time when the world is grappling with unprecedented issues, including the Covid-19 pandemic tha...

Rich with tales of discovery from Galileo to general relativity, a stimulating and timely analysis of how science works and why we need it. 'The be...

The only contemporary history of the birth of Silicon Valley, from the reporter who had a ringside seat to it all. Over the past five decades, the...

*Longlisted for the William MB Berger Prize for British Art History, 2022*A spectacular biography of the great designer, entrepreneur, abolitionist...

From an engineer and futurist, an impassioned account of technological stagnation since the 1970s and an imaginative blueprint for a richer, more a...

The bestselling phenomenon - a 6,000-year adventure through the history of books and readingA FINANCIAL TIMES, ECONOMIST AND MAIL ON SUNDAY BOOK OF...

An international community of specialists reinvented the propeller during the Aeronautical Revolution, a vibrant period of innovation in North Amer...

The formation of the Confederate States of America involved more than an attempt to create a new, sovereign nation -- it inspired a flurry of creat...

The American entrepreneurial spirit burns bright today. As of 2018, the US Patent & Trademark Office had granted its ten millionth patent. But ...

Born in Carthage, North Carolina, Lucean Arthur Headen (1879-1957) grew up amid former slave artisans. Inspired by his grandfather, a wheelwright, ...

Before the 1970s, for anything but basic arithmetic, a pen and paper was needed, and complex calculations required a slide rule or logarithm tables...

The 1950s were a vital time in the history of science. In accordance with the intensification of the Cold War, many scientific talents were mobiliz...

Britain has a rich and spectacular history. It is a core country in the development of the modern world. Indeed, as the first industrial nation, ...

In times of widespread Islamophobia, there is an understandable motivation for constructing scientific achievement as a counternarrative in popular...

The book is a collection of inter-linked essays, each dealing with a significant figure in the emergence of Britain as an industrial powerhouse in ...

A close look at Günter Blobels transformative contributions to molecular cell biology. The difficulty of reconciling chemical mechanisms with the f...

This book is a research guide and bibliography of Parliamentary material, including the Old Scottish Parliament and the Old Irish Parliament, relat...

'I wish it was science fiction, but I know it's not' Jaan Tallinn, co-founder of Skype'If you read just one book that makes you confront scary high...

Once called the Yankee Da Vinci, Rufus Porter was an itinerant portrait painter and muralist, a publisher and author, an inventor of mechanical imp...