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Eureka

Paperback • 2017 • 1. edition

Eureka

By Gavin Weightman

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About the book

This witty and inspiring book chronicles the long history of discovery and ingenuity which gave rise to a "eureka moment" when a dream of invention became a reality for the first time 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 computer, and mobile phone. Not one of these inventions can be at...Show more

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ISBN

9780300228854

Publisher

Yale University Press

Published year

2017

Language

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1

Original title

Eureka

Format

Paperback

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