Author: Doris Drucker
Publisher: University Of Chicago Pre
Keywords: memoir, hair, radium, invent
Number of Pages: 200
Published: 2004-04-09
List price: $22.50
ISBN-10: 0226165035
ISBN-13: 9780226165035
"And don’t forget, once you are married to a Rothschild you can become a famous woman," Doris Schmitz’s mother told her. "Be another Madame Curie and invent radium! You’ll be famous!" Doris reminded her that radium had already been discovered. "Don’t argue," her mother said. "You’re going to invent radium or I’ll pull your hair. You’re just being negative, like your father."Rothschilds and radium were the horizons of Doris’s childhood. Born in Germany in the early twentieth century, she came of age in an upper-middle-class family that struggled t
Author: Duncan Steel
Publisher: Wiley
Keywords: perfect, calendar, invent, quest, time, epic, marking
Number of Pages: 432
Published: 2000-12-08
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0471404217
ISBN-13: 9780471404217
"A calendar is a tool," the historian of science E.J. Bickerman once observed, "which cannot be justified by either logic or astronomy." Duncan Steel, an English space scientist, extends that argument in Marking Time, a broad-ranging history of the Western calendar--a chronological system that is logical after a fashion, but strangely flawed all the same. Steel begins his account by considering George Washington’s dual birthday, which he celebrated as falling on February 11, 1731, but Americans celebrated as February 22, 1732. Both, Steel shows, are correct, the discrepancy owing to a l
Author: Duncan Steel
Publisher: Wiley
Keywords: perfect, calendar, invent, quest, time, epic, marking
Number of Pages: 422
Published: 1999-10-04
List price: $50.00
ISBN-10: 0471298271
ISBN-13: 9780471298274
Did you know? . . .Russias October Revolution in 1917 actually occurred on November 7thFor centuries, Britain and the colonies rang in the New Year on March 25thThe Roman Empire originally observed an eight-day weekThe anno Domini (a.d.) year-counting system is wrong, and Jesus birth actually occurred some years before December 25, 1 b.c. These are just a few of the little-known facts that you will find in acclaimed author Duncan Steels eye-opening chronicle of the evolution of the calendar, Marking Time: The Epic Quest to Invent the Perfect Calendar. Steel takes you across the f
Author: Seth Shulman
Publisher: HarperCollins
Keywords: race, invent, airplane, curtiss, hammond, sky, glenn, unlocking
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2002-09-01
List price: $25.95
ISBN-10: 0060196335
ISBN-13: 9780060196332
The first public flight in the United States. The first commercially sold airplane. The remarkable first flight from one American city to another. The first pilot license issued in this country. These were just a few of the milestones in the career of Glenn Hammond Curtiss, perhaps the greatest aviator and aeronautical inventor of all time.Unlocking the Sky tells his extraordinary story -- a tale of the race to design, refine, and manufacture a manned flying machine that took place in the air, on the ground, on the water, and in the courtrooms of America. Who would be the first to make a worka
Author: Seth Shulman
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Keywords: race, invent, airplane, curtiss, hammond, sky, glenn, unlocking
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2003-09-01
List price: $14.99
ISBN-10: 0060956151
ISBN-13: 9780060956158
Unlocking the Sky tells the extraordinary tale of the race to design, refine, and manufacture a manned flying machine, a race that took place in the air, on the ground, and in the courtrooms of America. While the Wright brothers threw a veil of secrecy over their flying machine, Glenn Hammond Curtiss -- perhaps the greatest aviator and aeronautical inventor of all time -- freely exchanged information with engineers in America and abroad, resulting in his famous airplane, the June Bug, which made the first ever public flight in America. Fiercely jealous, the Wright brothers took to the courts t
Author: Raymond D. Strother
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
Keywords: consulting, politics@media, political, invent, redneck, helped, falling
Number of Pages: 306
Published: 2005-04
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0807130605
ISBN-13: 9780807130605
This brash and rollicking autobiography is a potent primer of the rough-and-tumble world of political consulting by one of its founding fathers and preeminent experts. A cross between a patriotic redneck raconteur and a TV-savvy renaissance man, Raymond D. Strother is unafraid to name names and refuses to mince words in tales of what he calls "the beauty and gore" of American politics. From the crash course in Louisiana politics and corruption he received following graduate school to his compelling entry into the big-time senatorial and congressional races of the 1970s and early 1980s and hi
Authors:Ellie Crowe, Robert N. Yonover,
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
Keywords: profit, ideas, promote, protect, inventing, invent, hardcore
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2009-07-27
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 160239654X
ISBN-13: 9781602396548
Based on the author’s experience in the world of inventing and promotion, Hardcore Inventing offers the kind of advice you can only learn from experience: how to developing an idea into an invention, how to build a prototype for show, how to safeguard intellectual property, how to market both strategically and and in “guerilla" mode, how find investors, and much more. And all of that is based on his IP 3 “Tacitical Method” which breaks everything down to Invent, Protect, Promote, and Profit.
