Inventions & Inventors

The inventions, the innovations, the stories, the surprises. A combination of history, reference and entertainment something for every seafarer an...

The Hill Times: Best Books of 2017Successful Canadians write about failure, and how it got them where they are today. What does it mean to fail? To...

We think of the Stephensons and Brunel as the fathers of the railways, and their Liverpool and Manchester and Great Western Railways as the prototy...

Although ancient farmers used draft animals for plowing, the heavy work of harvesting fell to human hands, using sickle and scythe. Change came in...

WATERSTONES BEST POLITICAL BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2021 LONGLISTED FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL ...

As the world's demand for electrical energy increases, it will be the ingenuity and skill of brilliant electrochemists that enable us to utilize...

Everything you need to know about the world''s greatest inventions presented in a way you''ll never forget. From the invention of the wh...

'A remarkable achievement' - Stephen FryIn 2015 #thedress captured the worlds imagination. Was the dress in the picture white and gold or blue and ...

A compelling call to apply Buckminster Fuller's creative problem-solving to present-day problems. A self-professed comprehensive anticipatory des...

William Henry Fox Talbot (18001877) was a British pioneer in photography, yet he also embraced the wider preoccupations of the Victorian Agea time ...

Learn about the role that patent models played in American history--and even learn to build your own replica!Patent models, working models required...

The extraordinary technologic innovations and revolutionary machines from the collection of the Leonardo Museum in Vinci. This beautifully illustra...

Makers of the Modern World is the third volume of William Gurstelle's unique, hands-on journey through history. Each chapter examines a remarkable ...

Industrial Revolutionaries is the second volume in William Gurstelle's unique exploration of history's great inventors. Each chapter revisits the l...

The bestselling 30-Second... series takes a revolutionary approach to learning about those subjects you feel you should really understand. Each tit...