Eureka: How Invention Happens.
by Weightman, Gavin
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0300192088
- ISBN 13
- 9780300192087
- Seller
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Annandale, New South Wales, Australia
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About This Item
London: Yale University Press (YUP), 2015. 1st ed.. Hardback octavo, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good dustjacket), black & white photos, minor edgewear jacket (faint sticker mark front cover). 266 pp. Gavin Weightman charts the gestation of five familiar and now ubiquitous technologies that appeared in the 20th century - the aeroplane, television, mobile phones, barcodes and the personal computer. This is a fascinating, amusing and historical triumph of technology and the making of our modern world.
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- Bookseller
- Bookhome Sydney (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 30959
- Title
- Eureka: How Invention Happens.
- Author
- Weightman, Gavin
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0300192088
- ISBN 13
- 9780300192087
- Publisher
- Yale University Press (YUP)
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2015
- Keywords
- science, physics, technology, inventions
- Bookseller catalogs
- TECHNOLOGY & COMPUTERS;
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Bookhome Sydney
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About the Seller
Bookhome Sydney
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Annandale, New South Wales
About Bookhome Sydney
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