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Creating Things That Matter
- The Art and Science of Innovations That Last
- By: David Edwards
- Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
- Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
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Most things we create will not matter. This book is about creating things that do, from a master innovator who brings science and art together in his cutting edge labs....
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James May's 20th Century
- By: James May, Phil Dolling
- Narrated by: James May
- Length: 4 hrs and 32 mins
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Longlisted for the Audiobook Download of the Year, 2007.
How much should you pay for a return trip to the moon? How are Winnie the Pooh and the artificial heart related....
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Great Listen
- By Codin Moldovanu on 02-07-2018
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Invention and Innovation
- A Brief History of Hype and Failure
- By: Vaclav Smil
- Narrated by: Tim Fannon
- Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
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From the New York Times-bestselling author comes a new volume on the history of human ingenuity—and its attendant breakthroughs and busts....
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Eject! Eject!
- By: John Nichol
- Narrated by: Thomas Judd
- Length: 16 hrs and 20 mins
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Nichol tells the remarkable tale of how the ejection seat was first conceived during the Second World War as countless lives were lost in accidents and in battle....
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The Wright Brothers
- By: David McCullough
- Narrated by: David McCullough
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
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Two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize David McCullough tells the dramatic story behind the story about the courageous brothers who taught the world how to fly....
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Great history of flight
- By Kym Angrave on 15-02-2023
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Tesla
- Inventor of the Electrical Age
- By: W. Bernard Carlson
- Narrated by: Allan Robertson
- Length: 16 hrs and 11 mins
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Nikola Tesla was a major contributor to the electrical revolution that transformed daily life at the turn of the 20th century....
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interesting and thorough biography.
- By Nancy on 05-05-2020
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Creating Things That Matter
- The Art and Science of Innovations That Last
- By: David Edwards
- Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
- Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Most things we create will not matter. This book is about creating things that do, from a master innovator who brings science and art together in his cutting edge labs....
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James May's 20th Century
- By: James May, Phil Dolling
- Narrated by: James May
- Length: 4 hrs and 32 mins
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Longlisted for the Audiobook Download of the Year, 2007.
How much should you pay for a return trip to the moon? How are Winnie the Pooh and the artificial heart related....
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Great Listen
- By Codin Moldovanu on 02-07-2018
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Invention and Innovation
- A Brief History of Hype and Failure
- By: Vaclav Smil
- Narrated by: Tim Fannon
- Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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From the New York Times-bestselling author comes a new volume on the history of human ingenuity—and its attendant breakthroughs and busts....
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Eject! Eject!
- By: John Nichol
- Narrated by: Thomas Judd
- Length: 16 hrs and 20 mins
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Nichol tells the remarkable tale of how the ejection seat was first conceived during the Second World War as countless lives were lost in accidents and in battle....
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The Wright Brothers
- By: David McCullough
- Narrated by: David McCullough
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
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Two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize David McCullough tells the dramatic story behind the story about the courageous brothers who taught the world how to fly....
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Great history of flight
- By Kym Angrave on 15-02-2023
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Tesla
- Inventor of the Electrical Age
- By: W. Bernard Carlson
- Narrated by: Allan Robertson
- Length: 16 hrs and 11 mins
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Nikola Tesla was a major contributor to the electrical revolution that transformed daily life at the turn of the 20th century....
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interesting and thorough biography.
- By Nancy on 05-05-2020
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Superspy Science
- Science, Death and Tech in the World of James Bond
- By: Kathryn Harkup
- Narrated by: Nicky Diss
- Length: 11 hrs and 34 mins
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Science and technology have always been central to the plots that make up the world of Bond, and in Superspy Science Kathryn Harkup explores the full range of 007’s exploits and the arms, technologies, tactics and downfalls of his various foes....
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Ancient High Tech
- The Astonishing Scientific Achievements of Early Civilizations
- By: Frank Joseph
- Narrated by: Andy Rick
- Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins
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A detailed look into ancient advanced technology, science, and medicine - some of which has yet to be reproduced today....
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Summary, Analysis, and Review of Peter H. Diamandis and Steven Kotler's The Future Is Faster Than You Think: How Converging Technologies Are Transforming Business, Industries, and Our Lives
- By: Start Publishing Notes
- Narrated by: Michael Gilboe
- Length: 37 mins
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In The Future Is Faster Than You Think, authors Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler explore how the convergence of different technologies will revolutionize the way we eat, work, play, and live....
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Heroes of Progress
- 65 People Who Changed the World
- By: Alexander C. R. Hammond
- Narrated by: Timothy Morgan
- Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
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Over the past two centuries, humanity has experienced unprecedented progress. Extreme poverty has declined, life expectancy has doubled, illiteracy has declined.
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The Everything Blueprint
- The Microchip Design That Changed the World
- By: James Ashton
- Narrated by: James Ashton
- Length: 11 hrs and 55 mins
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The Everything Blueprint describes the titanic power struggle for control of the microchip - told through the story of a British start up that has found itself in the middle....
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The Powerhouse
- Inside the Invention of a Battery to Save the World
- By: Steve LeVine
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
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Soul of the New Machine for our time, a gripping account of invention, commerce, and duplicity in the age of technology....
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Spends a long time building to nothing
- By Josh Duthie on 27-06-2023
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The Optimist's Telescope
- Thinking Ahead in a Reckless Age
- By: Bina Venkataraman
- Narrated by: Bina Venkataraman
- Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
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A trailblazing exploration of how we can plan better for the future: our own, our families’, and our society’s....
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An important book for the live now culture
- By Michael H on 05-10-2019
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The Imagineers of War
- The Untold Story of DARPA, the Pentagon Agency That Changed the World
- By: Sharon Weinberger
- Narrated by: Hillary Huber
- Length: 16 hrs and 42 mins
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The definitive history of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the Pentagon agency that has quietly shaped war and technology for nearly 60 years....
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Uncritical
- By Bob on 12-05-2018
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Invent, Innovate, and Prosper
- A Step-by-Step Guide to Successful Inventing
- By: Michael G. Colburn
- Narrated by: Joe Scalora
- Length: 6 hrs and 17 mins
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Michael Colburn is an inventor. He wasn't always, but he made himself into one and realized a powerful truth: Inventing is a skill anyone can master....
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Quirky
- By: Melissa A. Schilling
- Narrated by: Erin Bennett
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
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Schilling shares the science behind the convergence of traits that increases the likelihood of success. And, as Schilling also reveals, there is much to learn about nurturing breakthrough innovation in our own lives....
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Well-balanced & insightful
- By Amazon Customer on 17-01-2022
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Thou Shalt Innovate: How Israeli Ingenuity Repairs the World
- By: Avi Jorisch
- Narrated by: Shlomo Zacks
- Length: 5 hrs and 46 mins
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Thou Shalt Innovate profiles wondrous Israeli innovations that are collectively changing the lives of billions of people around the world, and explores why Israeli innovators of all faiths feel compelled to make the world better....
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Israel’s rise to global technological leadership
- By PETER on 27-06-2018
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Who Built That
- Awe-Inspiring Stories of American Tinkerpreneurs
- By: Michelle Malkin
- Narrated by: Michelle Malkin
- Length: 8 hrs and 5 mins
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Michelle Malkin tells the fascinating, little-known stories of the inventors who have contributed to American exceptionalism and technological progress....
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Defying Reality
- The Inside Story of the Virtual Reality Revolution
- By: David M. Ewalt
- Narrated by: Max Adler
- Length: 7 hrs
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This audiobook by award-winning journalist and author David Ewalt explores of the history, development, and future of virtual reality, a technology with world-changing potential, stemming from Ewalt's 2015 Forbes cover story about the Oculus Rift and its creator Palmer Luckey...
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The Einstein Effect
- How the World's Favorite Genius Got into Our Cars, Our Bathrooms, and Our Minds
- By: Benyamin Cohen
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
- Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins
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In The Einstein Effect, Cohen embarks on a global quest to unearth Einstein's ongoing relevance today....
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Idea to Invention
- What You Need to Know to Cash In on Your Inspiration
- By: Patricia Nolan-Brown
- Narrated by: Karen Saltus
- Length: 6 hrs and 17 mins
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You don't have to be a mechanical genius to be an inventor....
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They Made America
- From the Steam Engine to the Search Engine: Two Centuries of Innovators
- By: Harold Evans, Gail Buckland, David Lefer
- Narrated by: Harold Evans
- Length: 6 hrs and 1 min
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There has never been a history of America like Harold Evans's long-awaited They Made America....
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Totaled
- The Billion-Dollar Crash of the Startup That Took on Big Auto, Big Oil and the World
- By: Brian Blum
- Narrated by: Brian Blum
- Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
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When a billion-dollar electric car startup crashed and burned, global investors and average car buyers alike asked: What happened?
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Invent Wow
- Create Wealth: A Proven 3-Step System for Turning Your Wow Ideas into Profitable Products
- By: Don Brown
- Narrated by: Mark Sando
- Length: 4 hrs and 6 mins
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When I was growing up, I always thought there were only two ways to get rich. Number one: You were born rich. Number two: Some family member left you a bunch of money when they kicked the bucket....
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The Scientific Genius (and Rivalry) of Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla
- By: Craig Wright
- Narrated by: Craig Wright
- Length: 42 mins
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Edison and Tesla were arch-enemies with competing visions as to how to electrically empower America. Which one ultimately proved to have the more accurate and enduring vision for the world? Who is in the news today and why? Come and find out the answers....
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The Clock and the Camshaft
- And Other Medieval Inventions We Still Can't Live Without
- By: John W. Farrell
- Narrated by: Celeste Oliva
- Length: 5 hrs and 11 mins
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This history of medieval inventions, focusing on the 11th to the 14th centuries, vividly portrays a thriving era of human ingenuity, and the results are still being felt to this day....
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Mini Big Ideas
- A Little Book of Big Innovations
- By: Jonny Thomson
- Narrated by: Jonny Thomson
- Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
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From the internationally acclaimed author of Mini Philosophy, here are 150 big ideas in bite-sized chunks....
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SAM
- One Robot, a Dozen Engineers, and the Race to Revolutionize the Way We Build
- By: Jonathan Waldman
- Narrated by: Corey Brill
- Length: 9 hrs and 10 mins
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A true story of innovation, centered on a scrappy team of engineers - far from the Silicon Valley limelight - and their quest to achieve a surprisingly difficult technological feat: building a robot that can lay bricks....
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Jump!
- Inventions: Untold Stories of the Beautiful Era Collection
- By: Daniel Engber
- Narrated by: Amy McFadden
- Length: 1 hr and 12 mins
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In the first few years of the 20th century, inventors discovered how to soar into the sky. This breathtaking true story is about two men who, on one fateful weekend, tried to show the world a way back down.
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Free to Make
- How the Maker Movement is Changing Our Schools, Our Jobs, and Our Minds
- By: Dale Dougherty, Ariane Conrad - contributor, Tim O'Reilly - foreword
- Narrated by: Jeff Machado
- Length: 10 hrs and 43 mins
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Dale Dougherty, creator of MAKE: magazine and the Maker Faire, provides a guided tour of the international phenomenon known as the Maker Movement, a social revolution that is changing what gets made, how it’s made, where it’s made, and who makes it....