Author: Kurt W. Beyer
Publisher: The MIT Pre
Keywords: invention, studies, innovation, center, information, hopper, grace, lemelson
Number of Pages: 408
Published: 2009-09-30
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 026201310X
ISBN-13: 9780262013109
A Hollywood biopic about the life of computer pioneer Grace Murray Hopper (1906–1992) would go like this: a young professor abandons the ivy-covered walls of academia to serve her country in the Navy after Pearl Harbor and finds herself on the front lines of the computer revolution. She works hard to succeed in the all-male computer industry, is almost brought down by personal problems but survives them, and ends her career as a celebrated elder stateswoman of computing, a heroine to thousands, hailed as the inventor of computer programming. Throughout Hopper’s later years, the pop
Author: Paul Niemann
Publisher: Horsefeathers Publishing Company
Keywords: invention, mysteries, series
Number of Pages: 168
Published: 2004-01-01
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 097480410X
ISBN-13: 9780974804101
INVENTION MYSTERIES tells the little-known stories behind well-known inventions.
Author: Patrick Hanan
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Keywords: invention
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 1988-08-24
List price: $62.50
ISBN-10: 0674464257
ISBN-13: 9780674464254
Li Yu, 1610-1680, was a brilliant comic writer and entertainer, a thoroughgoing professional whose life was in his work-plays, stories, a novel, criticism, essays, and poems. Patrick Hanan places him in the society of his day, where even his precarious livelihood, his constant search for patronage, did not dampen his versatility, his irreverent wit, or his jocund spirit. Li was also an epicure, an inventor, a pundit, and a designer of houses and gardens. He was an exceptional figure in Chinese culture for two reasons: his disregard of the authority of tradition, and his dedication to the cau
Author: Samantha Hunt
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Keywords: everything, invention
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2008-02-07
List price: $24.00
ISBN-10: 061880112X
ISBN-13: 9780618801121
From the moment Louisa first catches sight of the strange man who occupies a forbidden room on the thirty-third floor, she is determined to befriend him.Unbeknownst to Louisa, he is Nikola Teslainventor of AC electricity and wireless communicationand he is living out his last days at the Hotel New Yorker.Winning his attention through a shared love of pigeons, she eventually uncovers the story of Tesla’s life as a Serbian immigrant and a visionary genius: as a boy he built engines powered by June bugs, as a man he dreamed of pulling electricity from the sky.The mystery deepens when Louisa
Author: Tom Stoppard
Publisher: Grove Press
Keywords: love, invention
Number of Pages: 112
Published: 1998-08-10
List price: $12.00
ISBN-10: 0802135811
ISBN-13: 9780802135810
Poetry, scholarship, and love are entwined in Tom Stoppard’s new play about A.E. Housman, which "Variety" has called "vintage Stoppard in its intelligence and wit". "Stoppard is at the top of form. . . . "The Invention of Love" does not just make you think, it also makes you feel".--"Daily Telegraph".
Author: Samantha Hunt
Publisher: Mariner Books
Keywords: everything, invention
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2009-03-02
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 054708577X
ISBN-13: 9780547085777
From the moment Louisa first catches sight of the strange man who occupies a forbidden room on the thirty-third floor, she is determined to befriend him.Unbeknownst to Louisa, he is Nikola Teslainventor of AC electricity and wireless communicationand he is living out his last days at the Hotel New Yorker.Winning his attention through a shared love of pigeons, she eventually uncovers the story of Tesla’s life as a Serbian immigrant and a visionary genius: as a boy he built engines powered by June bugs, as a man he dreamed of pulling electricity from the sky.The mystery deepens when Louisa
Author: Steven Johnson
Publisher: Riverhead Hardcover
Keywords: air, invention
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2008-12-26
List price: $25.95
ISBN-10: 1594488525
ISBN-13: 9781594488528
Bestselling author Steven Johnson recounts—in dazzling, multidisciplinary fashion—the story of the brilliant man who embodied the relationship between science, religion, and politics for America’s Founding Fathers. The Invention of Air is a book of world-changing ideas wrapped around a compelling narrative, a story of genius and violence and friendship in the midst of sweeping historical change that provokes us to recast our understanding of the Founding Fathers. It is the story of Joseph Priestley—scientist and theologian, protégé of Benjamin Franklin, friend of Thomas Jefferson—a
