Journal of Inventions

Journal of Inventions
Author: Jaspre Bark
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009
Genre: Inventions
ISBN: 9781592239085

A collection of pop-ups and illustrations based on the personal notebooks and sketches of Leonardo da Vinci. Includes 3-D pop-ups of six of da Vinci's most famous ideas that never took physical form - until now.

Ancient Inventions

Ancient Inventions
Author: Peter J. James
Publisher: Random House Digital, Inc.
Total Pages: 702
Release: 1995
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 0345401026

A guide to ancient accomplishments and inventions unearths the origins of modern creations, including computers in ancient Greece, plastic surgery in India in the first century B.C., and a postal service in medieval Baghdad

Journal of Discovery

Journal of Discovery
Author: Peter Riley
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012-02-08
Genre: Inventions
ISBN: 9781607102861

Journal of Discovery is a unique collection of exquisite pop-ups and illustrations that celebrates these intellectual pioneers--Copernicus, Edison, Gutenberg, Watt, the Lumi�re brothers, Marconi, and Bell--and their awe-inspiring works. Readers will learn about the Lumi�re brothers, who made the first motion picture, and Guglielmo Marconi, who developed the first radio telegraph picture. They'll find out how James Watt perfected the steam engine and how Johannes Gutenberg developed his innovative method of printing. They'll learn how these ideas were received in the past, and how they continue to influence our present--and our future.

Advanced NXT

Advanced NXT
Author: Matthias Paul Scholz
Publisher: Apress
Total Pages: 378
Release: 2008-09-08
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1430202580

The popularity of NXT and the success of The Da Vinci Code are combined in this fascinating book. Projects for building and programming five of Leonardo's most famous inventions are covered in detail: the tank, the helicopter, the catapult, the flying machine, and the revolving bridge. This book is written for serious NXT programmers and covers the most popular programming environments available today. The book is abundantly illustrated and includes sample code and countless best-practices strategies.

Suppressed Inventions and Other Discoveries

Suppressed Inventions and Other Discoveries
Author: Jonathan Eisen
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 566
Release: 2001-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780399527357

A scientist with a revolutionary cure for AIDS is incarcerated without explanation. Valuable artifacts are mysteriously misplaced by a prominent archaeological institution. Three celebrated astronauts perish in a suspicious fire after voicing their criticism of the US space program. Yet our world’s most powerful agencies hastily dispel these alarming reports as conspiracy theories, and bury them in padlocked archives. The fact is that a suppression syndrome exists in our society. Suppressed Inventions and Other Discoveries exposes the startling degree of truth behind the rumors. Jonathan Eisen has collected over forty intriguing stories of scientific cover-ups and programs of misinformation concocted to conceal some of the most phenomenal innovations in mankind’s history. These no-holds-barred accounts force us to confront the naiveté—and danger—of trusting our academic and political leaders to act always for the common good. Suppressed Inventions and Other Discoveries presents documented evidence that corporate self-interest, scientific arrogance, and political savvy have contrived to keep us in the dark about technological breakthroughs or interplanetary contact that may shift the current balance of power. Prepare yourself for a revealing look at the research and development to which we’ve been denied access. Suppressed Inventions and Other Discoveries begins by examining the ties that bind the medical establishment to powerful pharmaceutical corporations. Then it details the struggle of the independent research against Orthodox Science and its code of conduct, the Scientific Method. Next, the book investigates the cover-up of information concerning UFOs and extraterrestrial life that’s certain to make you reconsider what you thought was science fiction. The final section discusses just a few of the numerous alternate energy resources and fuel savers that, if put on the market today, would soon run the fossil fuel monopolies out of business.

The Wild Book of Inventions

The Wild Book of Inventions
Author: Chus Martinez
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2021-02-02
Genre: Art
ISBN: 3956792491

In essays, poems, sketches, and photographs, twenty authors challenge the exclusive human claim to intelligence. Can contemporary art's practitioners change the way we perceive nature? In The Wild Book of Inventions, twenty authors employ a variety of forms, including speculative essays, poems, pencil sketches, and photo essays, to challenge the exclusive human claim to intelligence by pointing to, or inventing, new forms of coexistence for all life-forms. Far more complex than the necessary and continuous exercise of critique, these contributions introduce new ways to experience culture. Contributors Nabil Ahmed, Armen Avanessian, Hannah Black, Kristina Buch, Tyler Coburn, Ann Cotten, Paul Feigelfeld, Fernando García-Dory, Kenneth Goldsmith, Anke Hennig, Ingela Ihrman, Tiphanie Kim Mall, Chus Martínez, Momus, Ingo Niermann, Trevor Paglen, Filipa Ramos, Lin May Saeed, Emily Segal, Johannes Willi

The Sources of Invention

The Sources of Invention
Author: John Jewkes
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 383
Release: 1969-06-18
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1349000159

A study of the causes and consequences of industrial innovation through the inventions of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Books, Banks, Buttons

Books, Banks, Buttons
Author: Chiara Frugoni
Publisher:
Total Pages: 178
Release: 2005
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780231128131

Identifies the technological innovations of the middle ages, noting how such ubiquitous items as eyeglasses, books, arabic numbers, underwear, banks, the game of chess, clocks, and domesticated cats came into being during the period.