History Of Science Books
A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age
Author:
Jimmy Soni
Author:
Rob Goodman
The life and times of one of the foremost intellects of the twentieth century: Claude Shannon—the neglected architect of the Information Age, whos…
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How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World
Author:
Steven Johnson
From the New York Times –bestselling author of Where Good Ideas Come From and Extra Life , a new look at the power and legacy of great ideas.<…
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The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's On-line Pioneers
Author:
Tom Standage
For centuries people communicated across distances only as quickly as the fastest ship or horse could travel. Generations of innovators tried and …
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Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
Author:
Dava Sobel
Author:
Neil Armstrong
Longitude is the dramatic human story of an epic scientific quest. The "longitude problem" was the thorniest dilemma of the eighteenth century. La…
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