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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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How Innovation Works
- Serendipity, Energy and the Saving of Time
- By: Matt Ridley
- Narrated by: Matt Ridley
- Length: 13 hrs and 10 mins
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Innovation is the main event of the modern age, the reason we experience both dramatic improvements in our living standards and unsettling changes in our society. It is innovation that will shape the 21st century....
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a good overview
- By Peter spencer on 13-07-2020
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How We Got to Now
- Six Innovations That Made the Modern World
- By: Steven Johnson
- Narrated by: George Newbern
- Length: 6 hrs and 11 mins
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Unlocking tales of unsung heroes and unexpected scientific revolutions, this is the story of the ideas that changed the world and the way we live in it....
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an interesting tale of how we got here.
- By Anonymous User on 01-09-2017
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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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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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How Innovation Works
- Serendipity, Energy and the Saving of Time
- By: Matt Ridley
- Narrated by: Matt Ridley
- Length: 13 hrs and 10 mins
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Innovation is the main event of the modern age, the reason we experience both dramatic improvements in our living standards and unsettling changes in our society. It is innovation that will shape the 21st century....
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a good overview
- By Peter spencer on 13-07-2020
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How We Got to Now
- Six Innovations That Made the Modern World
- By: Steven Johnson
- Narrated by: George Newbern
- Length: 6 hrs and 11 mins
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Unlocking tales of unsung heroes and unexpected scientific revolutions, this is the story of the ideas that changed the world and the way we live in it....
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an interesting tale of how we got here.
- By Anonymous User on 01-09-2017
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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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Two Wheels Good
- The History and Mystery of the Bicycle
- By: Jody Rosen
- Narrated by: Sean Patrick Hopkins
- Length: 12 hrs and 49 mins
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In Two Wheels Good, writer and critic Jody Rosen reshapes our understanding of this ubiquitous machine, an ever-present force in humanity's life and dreamlife, and a flashpoint in culture wars for more for than 200 years....
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Change
- How to Make Big Things Happen
- By: Damon Centola
- Narrated by: James Fouhey
- Length: 9 hrs and 50 mins
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From the spread of COVID-19 to the rise of political polarisation, from implicit bias to genetically modified food, from NASA to Netflix - it's time to think differently about how change works....
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The Next Fifty Things That Made the Modern Economy
- By: Tim Harford
- Narrated by: Roger Davis
- Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
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In Fifty Things That Made the Modern Economy, the revolutionary, acclaimed book, radio series and podcast, best-selling economist Tim Harford introduced us to a selection of 50 radical inventions that changed the world....
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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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Simply Electrifying
- The Technology That Transformed the World, from Benjamin Franklin to Elon Musk
- By: Craig R. Roach
- Narrated by: Tom Perkins
- Length: 15 hrs and 1 min
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Simply Electrifying brings to life the 250-year history of electricity through the stories of the men and women who used it to transform our world....
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Economics of the electric industry
- By Owen bartrop on 30-04-2020
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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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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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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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You Belong to the Universe
- Buckminster Fuller and the Future
- By: Jonathon Keats
- Narrated by: Josh Bloomberg
- Length: 5 hrs and 20 mins
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A compelling call to apply Buckminster Fuller's creative problem solving to present-day problems....
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Soonish
- Ten Emerging Technologies That Will Improve and/or Ruin Everything
- By: Dr. Kelly Weinersmith, Zach Weinersmith
- Narrated by: Dr. Kelly Weinersmith, Joseph May
- Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins
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What will the world of tomorrow be like? How does progress happen? And why don't we have a lunar colony already? Find out....
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Certainly not as it was described.
- By Anonymous User on 22-11-2019
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Tech Trends in Practice
- The 25 Technologies That Are Driving the 4th Industrial Revolution
- By: Bernard Marr
- Narrated by: Rich Miller
- Length: 7 hrs and 4 mins
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How will the latest technologies transform your business? Tech Trends in Practice will give you the knowledge of today's most important technology trends and how to take full advantage of them to grow your business....
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Alien Thinking
- How to Bring Your Breakthrough Ideas to Life
- By: Cyril Bouquet, Jean-Louis Barsoux, Michael Wade
- Narrated by: Daniel Henning
- Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins
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Innovation experts Cyril Bouquet, Jean-Louis Barsoux and Michael Wade have studied individuals around the world who have made leaps of creative genius. Their research shows that they are five patterns of thinking that distinguish true innovators from the rest of us....
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How to Speak Machine
- Laws of Design for a Digital Age
- By: John Maeda
- Narrated by: Dani Martineck
- Length: 5 hrs and 53 mins
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John Maeda is one of the world's preeminent thinkers on technology and design, and in How to Speak Machine, he offers a set of simple laws that govern not only the computers of today but the unimaginable machines of the future....
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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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A Triumph of Genius
- Edwin Land, Polaroid, and the Kodak Patent War
- By: Ronald K. Fierstein
- Narrated by: Pete Larkin
- Length: 24 hrs and 15 mins
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This riveting biography from the American Bar Association visits the spectacular life of Edwin Land, breakthrough inventor....
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Wonderland
- How Play Made the Modern World
- By: Steven Johnson
- Narrated by: George Newbern
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
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What connects Paleolithic bone flutes to the invention of computer software? Or the Murex sea snail to the death of the great American city? Find out....
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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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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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The Substance of Civilization
- Materials and Human History from the Stone Age to the Age of Silicon
- By: Stephen L. Sass
- Narrated by: John Haag
- Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
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The story of human civilization can be read most deeply in the materials we have found or created, used or abused......
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Great listening for anyone curious about the world
- By Daniel on 08-02-2022
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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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Hardcore Inventing
- Invent, Protect, Promote, and Profit From Your Ideas
- By: Robert Yanover, Ellie Crowe
- Narrated by: Erik Synnestvedt
- Length: 6 hrs and 25 mins
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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....
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useful Resource for inventors
- By Amazon Customer on 10-05-2022
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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....
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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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Invent, Innovate, and Prosper
- A Step-by-Step Guide to Successful Inventing
- By: Michael G. Colburn
- Narrated by: Joseph 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....