Inventions & Inventors

The Maker's Manual is a practical and comprehensive guide to becoming a hero of the new industrial revolution. It features hundreds of color images...

This witty and inspiring book chronicles the long history of discovery and ingenuity which gave rise to a eureka moment when a dream of invention b...

Foreword by Admiral Lord West Whilst living in Liverpool, Britain's second most heavily bombed city during World War II, the author experienced at...

***One of BBC Focus magazine's top books of 2018***Get ready to make history better... on the second try.Imagine you are stranded in the past (your...

Ferraras book is an introduction to writing as a process of revelation, but its also a celebration of these things still undeciphered, and many oth...

This work features in-depth critical essays on important men and women inventors of all time, from around the world. Plus, free online access to th...

LEGO(R) Heroes is a collection of twelve remarkable stories about everyday heroes using the LEGO(R) system in unique ways to solve some of life's g...

In the last few decades, steampunk has blossomed from being a rather obscure and little-known subgenre of science fiction into a striking and disti...

**A Financial Times Best Summer Book 2023**Out now: a gripping look at the rise of the microchip and the British tech company behind the blueprint ...

The Great American Hall of Wonders is a vividly illustrated survey of the American ingenuity that energised all aspects of 19th-century society, fr...

Almost every schoolchild learns that Thomas Edison invented the light bulb. But did he? And if he hadnt invented it, would we be still living in th...

Samuel Smiles published Lives of the Engineers in 1862. The noted biographer presented his engineers as heroic progress makers who conquered nature...

This book reveals the life, drama and mystery surrounding the creator of groundbreaking inventions. It posthumously found renewed fame as the subje...

This book contains almost 200 photos taken from the late nineteenth century to the 1960s by the General Electric Company. Over these decades GE sci...

Dive into the mind of Nikola Tesla! Written in his own words, this Nikola Tesla book features the lectures, illustrations, and other works that est...

Nikola Tesla's legacy lives on in numerous ways today - from the electric car manufacturers Tesla to the Belgrade Nikola Tesla Airport.