Inventions & Inventors

This hands-on book takes a look at four brilliant women -- Ada Lovelace, Anna Atkins, Hildegard Von Bingen, and Maria Telkes -- and the world-chang...

What does it take to be an inventor? Judging by the ingenious individuals who have come into The Life Scientific studio in the last eight years, th...

Zero to Maker is part memoir and part how-to guidebook for anyone who is having thoughts like these: I feel like all I can do is write emails. I ...

**The New York Times Bestseller**''Space elevators, gold asteroids, and fusion-powered toasters - who knew science could be so much fun? Soonish is...

One of the preeminent natural philosophers of the Enlightenment, Benjamin Thompson started out as a farm boy with a practical turn of mind. His ...

Among the many rewards of America the Ingenious, Kevin Baker''s survey of Yankee know-how, is stumbling on its buried nuggets. . . . Baker examines...

From Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea to The Hunt for Red October, readers the world over have demonstrated an enduring fascination with trave...

The story of the jet engine has everything: genius, tragedy, heroism, a world war, the individual vs. the state, and an idea that would change the ...

Everyone wants to be the next Bill Gates or Steve Jobs, but theres never been a clear road map to becoming a wildly successful innovatoruntil now. ...

Can you imagine what today's technology would have looked like in the Victorian Era? That's the world Steampunk envisions: a mad-inventor collectio...

The single-wire telegraph revolutionized long distance communication but it was not the brainchild of one inventor, Samuel Morse. His colleagues...

The incredible true story of the origin of human flight, by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author David McCullough. On a winter day in 1903, in the Out...

This book contains fascinating vignettes depicting future societies and the implications which increasing technological change has on society and t...

'In his whistle-stop tour of inventions large and small, the scientist Trevor Norton shares the Gershwins' view that invention is fundamentally com...

Writer and cartoonist Anthony Rubino, Jr. hilariously shares 101 inventions that bizarrely changed the world. Why Didn't I Think of That? proves no...

This book is dedicated to the great Georgian modern artist David Kakabadze (1889-1952). This book compares the importance of David Kakabadze''''s c...

Many advances in technology are due to the development of new materials and by using patent literature we can monitor how technology has advanced. ...

Who invented the flying machine? Was the Titanic really the first unsinkable ship? How would one use a phonoscope? Using old Victorian documents, ...

Have you got any ideas on how to make a better banknote?In the late 1960s, the detection of counterfeit banknotes and the rise of new photographic ...

Do you aspire to master the art of the perfect burger? To make DIY disasters a thing of the past? To discover ingenious ways to keep the kids...