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Book Synopsis Great Inventions, Good Intentions by : Eric Baker
Download or read book Great Inventions, Good Intentions written by Eric Baker and published by San Francisco : Chronicle Books. This book was released on 1990 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 500 illustrations from the U.S. Patent Office--from Frank Lloyd Wright's office furniture to Henry Dreyfus' "Twentieth Century Limited" train--are featured in this fascinating compendium of entries by industrial designers and independent inventors.
Download or read book Life Ascending written by Nick Lane and published by Profile Books. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2010 Royal Society Prize for science books Powerful new research methods are providing fresh and vivid insights into the makeup of life. Comparing gene sequences, examining the atomic structure of proteins and looking into the geochemistry of rocks have all helped to explain creation and evolution in more detail than ever before. Nick Lane uses the full extent of this new knowledge to describe the ten greatest inventions of life, based on their historical impact, role in living organisms today and relevance to current controversies. DNA, sex, sight and consciousnesses are just four examples. Lane also explains how these findings have come about, and the extent to which they can be relied upon. The result is a gripping and lucid account of the ingenuity of nature, and a book which is essential reading for anyone who has ever questioned the science behind the glories of everyday life.
Book Synopsis The Greatest Inventions of the Past 2,000 Years by : John Brockman
Download or read book The Greatest Inventions of the Past 2,000 Years written by John Brockman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2000 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The responses of some of the world's leading scientists and creative thinkers vary from the computer to the eraser, from movable type to classical music, from the lens to counting systems, from the concepts of free will to democracy.
Book Synopsis The Greatest Invention by : Silvia Ferrara
Download or read book The Greatest Invention written by Silvia Ferrara and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2022-03-01 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this exhilarating celebration of human ingenuity and perseverance—published all around the world—a trailblazing Italian scholar sifts through our cultural and social behavior in search of the origins of our greatest invention: writing. The L where a tabletop meets the legs, the T between double doors, the D of an armchair’s oval backrest—all around us is an alphabet in things. But how did these shapes make it onto the page, never mind form complex structures such as this sentence? In The Greatest Invention, Silvia Ferrara takes a profound look at how—and how many times—human beings have managed to produce the miracle of written language, traveling back and forth in time and all across the globe to Mesopotamia, Crete, China, Egypt, Central America, Easter Island, and beyond. With Ferrara as our guide, we examine the enigmas of undeciphered scripts, including famous cases like the Phaistos Disk and the Voynich Manuscript; we touch the knotted, colored strings of the Inca quipu; we study the turtle shells and ox scapulae that bear the earliest Chinese inscriptions; we watch in awe as Sequoyah single-handedly invents a script for the Cherokee language; and we venture to the cutting edge of decipherment, in which high-powered laser scanners bring tears to an engineer’s eye. A code-cracking tour around the globe, The Greatest Invention chronicles a previously uncharted journey, one filled with past flashes of brilliance, present-day scientific research, and a faint, fleeting glimpse of writing’s future.
Book Synopsis Our Final Invention by : James Barrat
Download or read book Our Final Invention written by James Barrat and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elon Musk named Our Final Invention one of 5 books everyone should read about the future A Huffington Post Definitive Tech Book of 2013 Artificial Intelligence helps choose what books you buy, what movies you see, and even who you date. It puts the "smart" in your smartphone and soon it will drive your car. It makes most of the trades on Wall Street, and controls vital energy, water, and transportation infrastructure. But Artificial Intelligence can also threaten our existence. In as little as a decade, AI could match and then surpass human intelligence. Corporations and government agencies are pouring billions into achieving AI's Holy Grail—human-level intelligence. Once AI has attained it, scientists argue, it will have survival drives much like our own. We may be forced to compete with a rival more cunning, more powerful, and more alien than we can imagine. Through profiles of tech visionaries, industry watchdogs, and groundbreaking AI systems, Our Final Invention explores the perils of the heedless pursuit of advanced AI. Until now, human intelligence has had no rival. Can we coexist with beings whose intelligence dwarfs our own? And will they allow us to?
Book Synopsis 100 Inventions That Made History by : DK
Download or read book 100 Inventions That Made History written by DK and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-02-03 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Incredible inventions and inspiring innovations have transformed the world today, so you can't imagine life without them! This tour through time tracks the brilliant breakthroughs of great geniuses starting with ancient times and ending in the modern era. Packed full of awesome ideas, from airplanes, batteries, and chocolate, to video games, wheels, and X-rays, you'll hear the inside story on the brainwaves behind them all. You'll meet the masters of invention who dreamed up the greatest gadgets and gizmos ever. From the everyday essentials we take for granted to fabulous firsts like the car and the television, this roll call of history's most groundbreaking inventions is guaranteed to educate, engage, and entertain the whole family. Part of DK's best-selling top 100 in History series, 100 Inventions That Made History presents an in-depth exploration of each important invention in unprecedented detail with eye-catching visuals and informative text, while stunning galleries reveal a selection of mind-blowing inventions on a shared theme. Also included are the disastrous prototypes that never got off the ground and the futuristic fantasies that may soon be up and running. Open your eyes to a world of wonder... and who knows, you might become the trailblazer of tomorrow!
Book Synopsis Great Inventions and Where They Came From by : Jackie Glassman
Download or read book Great Inventions and Where They Came From written by Jackie Glassman and published by Benchmark Education Company. This book was released on 2011 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Edison written by Frank Lewis Dyer and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Art of Invention by : Steven J. Paley
Download or read book The Art of Invention written by Steven J. Paley and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2011-03 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chinese edition of The art of invention:The Creative Process of Discovery and Design by Steven J. Paley. In Traditional Chinese. Distributed by Tsai Fong Books, Inc.
Book Synopsis Black Pioneers of Science and Invention by : Louis Haber
Download or read book Black Pioneers of Science and Invention written by Louis Haber and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1991 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the lives of fourteen black scientists and inventors who have made significant contributions in the various fields of science and industry.
Book Synopsis Great Inventions and Discoveries by : Willis Duff Piercy
Download or read book Great Inventions and Discoveries written by Willis Duff Piercy and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-04 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Great Inventions and Discoveries by Willis Duff Piercy is a book that explores the history and impact of some of the most important inventions and discoveries in human civilization. The book covers topics such as printing, electricity, America, gunpowder, astronomy, cotton-gin, steel, rubber, photography, clocks, machines and aeronautics. The author was a teacher and writer who published several books on history and science for young readers.
Book Synopsis Rube Goldberg by : Maynard Frank Wolfe
Download or read book Rube Goldberg written by Maynard Frank Wolfe and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2000-11-20 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to the world of that archetypal American, Reuben Lucius Goldberg, the dean of American cartoonists for most of the twentieth century. For more than sixty-five years, Rube Goldberg's syndicated cartoons -- he produced more than fifty strips -- appeared in as many as a thousand newspapers annually He was earning a hundred thousand dollars a year...in 1915. He wrote hit songs and stories and was, in succession, a star in vaudeville, motion pictures, newsreels, radio, and, finally, television. He even, at the age of eighty, began an entirely new career as a sculptor, and, in inimitable Goldberg fashion, was soon selling his work to galleries, collectors, and museums all over the world. Sure, Rube won the Pulitzer Prize. Every yearsomecartoonist wins the Pulitzer Prize. But the National Cartoonists Societynamedits award -- the Reuben -- after you-know-who. But it was Rube's "Inventions," those drawings of intricate and whimsical machines, that earned Rube his very own entry inWebster's New World Dictionary: Rube Goldberg...adjective...Designating any very complicated invention, machine, scheme, etc. laboriously contrived to perform a seemingly simple operation. "Inventions," even the earliest ones that date from 1914, are still being republished and recycled today as they have been over the last eighty-five years. New generations rediscover and enjoy them every day, even though their creator cleaned his pens, put the cap on his bottle of Higgins Black India Ink, and cleared his drawing board for the last time almost thirty years ago. The inventions inspired the National Rube Goldberg™ Machine Contest, held annually at Purdue University, an "Olympics of complexity" in which hundreds of engineering students from American universities and colleges -- and even middle and high schools -- compete to build and run Rube Goldberg invention machines that perform, in twenty or more steps, the annual challenge. In 1970 the Smithsonian Institution hosted a show honoring Rube Goldberg's lifework. In a life filled with superlatives, it hardly needs mentioning that Rube is the only living cartoonist and humorist to have been so honored. In his speech at the show's opening, Rube said, "Many of the younger generation know my name in a vague way and connect it with grotesque inventions, but don't believe that I ever existed as a person. They think I am a nonperson, just a name that signifies a tangled web of pipes or wires or strings that suggest machinery. My name to them is like spiral staircase, veal cutlets, barber's itch -- terms that give you an immediate picture of what they mean..." So welcome to a collection of spiral staircases and veal cutlets -- to the inventions of an American original, a creative genius named Rube Goldberg.
Book Synopsis Nature Got There First by : Phil Gates
Download or read book Nature Got There First written by Phil Gates and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2010-06-08 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Inventions inspired by Nature"--Jacket.
Book Synopsis The Story of Great Inventions by : Elmer Burns
Download or read book The Story of Great Inventions written by Elmer Burns and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-07-12 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Great inventions are a never-failing source of interest to all of us, and particularly to the boy in his teens. The dynamo, the electric motor, the telegraph, with and without wires, the telephone, air-ships, and many other inventions excite in him an interest which is deeper than mere curiosity. He wants to know how these things work, and how they were invented. The man is so absorbed in the present that he cares little for the past. Not so with the boy. He cares for the history of inventions, and in this he is wiser than the man, for it is only by a study of its origin and growth that we can understand the larger significance of a great invention. Great inventions have their origin in great discoveries. The story of great inventions, therefore, includes the story of the discoveries out of which they have arisen. The stories of the discoveries and the inventions are inseparable from the lives of the men who made them, and so we must deal with biography, which in itself is of interest to the boy. Such a story is the story of physical science in the service of humanity. The interest of the youth in great inventions is unquestioned. Shall we stifle this interest by overemphasis of technical detail, or shall we minister to it as a thing vital in the life of the youth of to-day? A few sentences quoted from G. Stanley Hall will indicate the author's point of view. "The youth is in the humanist stage. Nature is sentiment before it becomes idea or formula or utility." "The heroes and history epochs of each branch [of science] add another needed quality to the still so largely humanistic stage." "A new discovery, besides its technical record, involves the added duty of concise and lucid popular statement as a tribute to youth." The need of a "concise and lucid popular statement" of the rise of the great inventions which form the material basis of our modern civilization and all of which are new to the young mind, has no doubt been keenly felt by others as it has been by the author. The story of our great inventions has been told in sundry volumes for adult readers, but nowhere has this story, alive with human interest, been told in a form suited to the young. It was the realization of this need growing out of years of experience in teaching these branches that led the author to attempt the task of writing the story. The purpose of this book is to tell in simple language how our great inventions came into being, to depict the life-struggles of the men who made them, and, in the telling of the story, to explain the working of the inventions in a way the boy can understand. The stories which are here woven together present the great epochs in the history of physics, and are intended to give to the young reader a connected view of the way in which our great inventions have arisen out of scientific discovery on the one hand, and conditions which we may call social and economic on the other hand. If the book shall appeal to young readers, and lead them to an appreciation of the meaning of a great invention, the author will feel that his purpose has been achieved. The author is deeply indebted to Dr. Charles A. McMurry and Prof. Newell D. Gilbert, of the Northern Illinois State Normal School; Profs. C. R. Mann and R. A. Millikan, of the University of Chicago; and Prof. John F. Woodhull, of Columbia University, for reading the manuscript and offering valuable suggestions. Acknowledgment is further made here of valuable aid in collecting material for illustrations and letter-press. Such acknowledgment is due to Prof. A. Gray, University of Glasgow; Prof. Antonio Favaro, Royal University of Padua; Prof. A. Zammarchi, Brescia, Italy; Mr. Nikola Tesla; the Royal Institution, London; McClure's Magazine; The Technical World Magazine; The Scientific American; the Ellsworth Company; Commonwealth-Edison Company; Association of Edison Illuminating Companies; Electric Controller and Supply Company; Kelley-Koett Manufacturing Company;
Book Synopsis How to Avoid a Climate Disaster by : Bill Gates
Download or read book How to Avoid a Climate Disaster written by Bill Gates and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2021-02-16 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • In this urgent, authoritative book, Bill Gates sets out a wide-ranging, practical—and accessible—plan for how the world can get to zero greenhouse gas emissions in time to avoid a climate catastrophe. Bill Gates has spent a decade investigating the causes and effects of climate change. With the help of experts in the fields of physics, chemistry, biology, engineering, political science, and finance, he has focused on what must be done in order to stop the planet's slide to certain environmental disaster. In this book, he not only explains why we need to work toward net-zero emissions of greenhouse gases, but also details what we need to do to achieve this profoundly important goal. He gives us a clear-eyed description of the challenges we face. Drawing on his understanding of innovation and what it takes to get new ideas into the market, he describes the areas in which technology is already helping to reduce emissions, where and how the current technology can be made to function more effectively, where breakthrough technologies are needed, and who is working on these essential innovations. Finally, he lays out a concrete, practical plan for achieving the goal of zero emissions—suggesting not only policies that governments should adopt, but what we as individuals can do to keep our government, our employers, and ourselves accountable in this crucial enterprise. As Bill Gates makes clear, achieving zero emissions will not be simple or easy to do, but if we follow the plan he sets out here, it is a goal firmly within our reach.
Download or read book My Inventions written by Nikola Tesla and published by Arcturus Publishing. This book was released on 2019-01-31 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention." Visionary, pioneer, and eccentric genius, Nikola Tesla was the quintessential scientist of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Two of his creations, the induction motor and the Tesla coil, underpin the technology of the modern world. First published as six articles in the Electrical Experimenter magazine, My Inventions tells the story of Tesla's life, from his humble beginnings in Croatia to his migration to the United States, and describes his revolutionary feats of invention and pivotal breakthroughs in the world of engineering. This book takes you on an inspirational journey into one of the world's greatest and most unconventional minds.
Book Synopsis Great Inventions and Discoveries by : Willis Duff Piercy
Download or read book Great Inventions and Discoveries written by Willis Duff Piercy and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
