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SUPERANNO Simply Electrifying: The Technology That Transformed the World, From Benjamin Franklin to Elon Musk brings to life the 250-year history of electricity through the stories of the men and women who used it to transform our world: Benjamin Franklin, James Watt, Michael Faraday, Samuel F. B. Morse, Thomas Edison, Samuel Insull, Albert Einstein, Rachel Carson, Elon Musk and more. In the process, it reveals for the first time the complete, thrilling and often-dangerous story of electricity’s historic discovery, development and worldwide application.
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The telescope in the ice : inventing a new astronomy at the South Pole
by Mark Bowen
Traces the story of the IceCube Observatory and its landmark studies observing high-energy neutrinos at the South Pole, celebrating its role in establishing a new field of astronomy while sharing insights into what the research station hopes to achieve in the near future.
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1,000 inventions & discoveries
by Roger Francis Bridgman
Fascinating stories and vivid photographs and illustrations summarize one thousand notable inventions and discoveries of ancient and modern times, from 600,000 B.C. to the beginning of the twenty-first century A.D.
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The great unknown : seven journeys to the frontiers of science
by Marcus Du Sautoy
The award-winning author of The Music of the Primes and popular presenter of Netflix's The Story of Math explores the once-ridiculed theories of history's greatest innovators and the outer reaches of human knowledge to consider what discoveries may lie beyond the predictive powers of science.
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Wonderland : how play made the modern world
by Steven Johnson
The New York Times best-selling author of How We Got to Now and Where Good Ideas Come From explores the world-changing innovations we made while keeping ourselves entertained.
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Endurance : a year in space, a lifetime of discovery
by Scott Kelly
An illustrated memoir by the astronaut who spent a record-breaking year aboard the International Space Station shares candid reminiscences of his voyage, his colorful formative years and the off-planet journeys that shaped his early career.
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The man who designed the future : Norman Bel Geddes and the invention of twentieth-century America
by Barbara Szerlip
A history of American innovation follows a polymath with humble origins who found himself at the center of the worlds of industry, advertising, theater and even gaming, designing everything from the first all-weather stadium to Manhattan’s most exclusive nightclub to Futurama, the prescient 1939 exhibit that envisioned how America would look in the not-too-distant future.
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