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Whale and the Reactor A Search for Limits in an Age of High Technology (Second Edition)
ISBN: PB: 9780226692548, University of Chicago Press, March 2020
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
"In an age in which the inexhaustible power of scientific technology makes all things possible, it remains to be seen where we will draw the line, where we will be able to say, here are possibilities that wisdom suggest we avoid". First published to...
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£18,00
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Eureka How Invention Happens
ISBN: PB: 9780300228854, Yale University Press, August 2017
280 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 12 black&white illus.
Tracing the long pre-history of five twentieth-century inventions which have transformed our lives, Gavin Weightman reveals a fantastic cast of scientists and inspired amateurs whose ingenuity has given us the airplane, television, bar code, personal...
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£10,99
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Into the Black JPL and the American Space Program, 1976-2004
ISBN: PB: 9780300184198, Yale University Press, November 2011
414 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, black&white illus.
In the decades since the mid-1970s, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, has led the quest to explore the farthest reaches of the solar system. JPL spacecraft-Voyager, Magellan, Galileo, the Mars rovers, and others-have brought the...
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£28,00
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