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Where Stuff Comes from : How Toasters, Toilets, Cars, Computers, and Many Others Things Come to Be as They Are
Harvey L. Molotch
Hardcover - $51.95
No toaster is an island. In fact, as Harvey Molotch demonstrates in this sparkling tour of how things are created, the everyday objects of our life are a delicate and clever intermingling of design, timing and functionality that mirrors contemporary ...
Cat Flaps and Mouse Traps : The Origins of Objects in Our Daily Lives
Harry Oliver
Hardcover - $29.95
"Why did Isaac Newton invent the cat flap? How did the first mousetrap come about? Why did it take nearly 20 years to make sliced bread?" From the moment the alarm clock wakes us up in the morning until the time we switch the light off at night, we a ...
You Call This the Future? : The Greatest Inventions Sci-Fi Imagined and Science Promised
Nick Sagan
Paperback - $24.95
Examining the 50 coolest, most stylish, and most popular futuristic inventions, this handbook peers through the lens of today's science, looking at which ones have become reality and how they work, and which are still in the imagined future--"will we ...
Inventions
Fred Sanders
Hardcover - $64.95
Pow! This small book packs a big punch! Every paragraph is full of energy. The inventions range from a machine to stop a hurricane to better sex to living through a heart attack! Some inventions are methods. You can use these inventions immediately s ...
Lives of the Engineers - Boulton and Watt - The Steam Engine and Transport
Samuel Smiles
Paperback - $70.95
Managing Intellectual Property at Iowa State University (1923-1998)
Patricia B. Swan
Hardcover - $80.95
Managing Intellectualy Property at Iowa State University - 1923-1998
Patricia B. Swan
Paperback - $62.95
Written by a former university official, "Managing Intellectual Property at Iowa State University (1923-1998)" provides a rare glimpse inside a university's management of intellectual property. (Legal Reference/Law)
American Inventions : A History of Curious, Extraordiary, and Just Plain Useful Patents
Stephen Van Dulken
Hardcover - $65.95
Every American knows that Thomas Alva Edison's most famous invention was the light bulb, but who invented the pregnancy test? How was the airbag invented? How was the first computer patented? Stephen van Dulken examines the way inventions and patents ...