Follow the Link: A Journey Through Technology: From Frogs' Legs to the Titanic - Couverture rigide

Jackson, Tom

 
9781784937775: Follow the Link: A Journey Through Technology: From Frogs' Legs to the Titanic
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ISBN 10 : 1784937770 ISBN 13 : 9781784937775
Editeur : words & pictures, 2017

Synopsis

Follow the Link: A Journey Through Technology explores how some of today's greatest inventions came to be - and takes the reader on a journey through a network of knowledge. It tells the story of how we figured out what electricity is and how we learned to use it to communicate with each other. Over the centuries, we have taken the same power that creates a flash of lightning and used it to make Wi-Fi hotspots, power touchscreens, and send video messages. The inspiration behind new ideas is often surprising, always unpredictable and sometimes rather bizarre - discover how an experiment with frogs' legs made people think animals were kept alive by lightning, and other strange and incredible tales of progress.

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À propos des auteurs

Tom Jackson is a writer specializing in science and technology for children and adults. Titles include Chilled: How Refrigeration Changed the World and Might Do So Again and Philosophy: An Illustrated History of Thought.

Nick Shepherd is an illustrator from West Yorkshire, based in Lisbon, who spends too much time in front of a computer screen and enough time with a (real) pencil in his hand. He specialises in conceptual blue sky thinking.

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Follow the Link: A Journey Through Technology explores how some of today's greatest inventions came to be - and takes the reader on a journey through a network of knowledge. It tells the story of how we figured out what electricity is and how we learned to use it to communicate with each other. Over the centuries, we have taken the same power that creates a flash of lightning and used it to make Wi-Fi hotspots, power touchscreens, and send video messages. The inspiration behind new ideas is often surprising, always unpredictable and sometimes rather bizarre - discover how an experiment with frogs' legs made people think animals were kept alive by lightning, and other strange and incredible tales of progress.

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Éditeur
words & pictures
Date d'édition
2017
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1784937770
ISBN 13 
9781784937775
Reliure
Relié
Illustrateur
Shepherd Nick
Nombre de pages
80
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
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