Imagination and a pile of junk : a droll history of inventors and inventions /
A celebration of the extraordinary people who created the modern world, spiced with anecdotes and wit. Trevor Norton weaves an entertaining history with a seductive mix of eureka moments, disasters and dirty tricks. Although inventors were often scientists or engineers, many were not: Samuel Morse (...
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Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Inventions Before There Were Inventors
- The Pursuit of Power
- Full Steam Ahead
- Like a Red Flag to a Bull
- Rubber Dub Dub
- Messing about in Boats
- Ironclads, Dreadnoughts and Submersibles
- More Complicated Ways to Drown
- On a Wing and a Prayer
- Safety First
- Seeing the Light
- On Line
- Wired for Sound
- On the Crest of a Wave
- Captured in Time
- The Cat's Whiskers
- All Things Great and Small
- The Germ of an Idea
- A Dirty Business
- Inside Information
- Bloody Hell
- Heartaches
- The Genie in the Gene
- The Latest Things
- Digital Doodah
- Coming Soon
- Science Fictions?.