History Of Science Books


A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age

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

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

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

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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