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The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
Author: Walter Isaacson
ISBN-13: 9781442376243 - ISBN-10: 1442376244
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The Innovators: How a Group of Inventors, Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
The Innovators: How a Group of Inventors, Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
Author: Walter Isaacson
ISBN-13: 9781442376229 - ISBN-10: 1442376228
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Rust: The Longest War
Rust: The Longest War
Author: Jonathan Waldman
ISBN-13: 9781451691603 - ISBN-10: 1451691602
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The Road Taken: The History and Future of America's Infrastructure
The Road Taken: The History and Future of America's Infrastructure
Author: Henry Petroski
ISBN-13: 9781632863607 - ISBN-10: 163286360X
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The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's On-line Pioneers
The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's On-line Pioneers
Author: Tom Standage
ISBN-13: 9781620405925 - ISBN-10: 162040592X
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Connections
Connections
Author: James Burke
ISBN-13: 9780743299558 - ISBN-10: 0743299558
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The Telephone Gambit: Chasing Alexander Graham Bell's Secret
The Telephone Gambit: Chasing Alexander Graham Bell's Secret
Author: Seth Shulman
ISBN-13: 9780393062069 - ISBN-10: 0393062066
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It Looked Good on Paper: Bizarre Inventions, Design Disasters, and Engineering Follies
It Looked Good on Paper: Bizarre Inventions, Design Disasters, and Engineering Follies
Author: Bill Fawcett
ISBN-13: 9780061358432 - ISBN-10: 0061358436
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Fly by Wire: The Geese, the Glide, the Miracle on the Hudson
Fly by Wire: The Geese, the Glide, the Miracle on the Hudson
Author: William Langewiesche
ISBN-13: 9780374157180 - ISBN-10: 0374157189
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Chilled: How Refrigeration Changed the World and Might Do So Again
Chilled: How Refrigeration Changed the World and Might Do So Again
Author: Tom Jackson
ISBN-13: 9781472911438 - ISBN-10: 1472911431
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Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster
Author: Adam Higginbotham
ISBN-13: 9781501134630 - ISBN-10: 1501134639
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The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
Author: Brad Stone
ISBN-13: 9780316219280 - ISBN-10: 0316219282
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Rocket Men: The Epic Story of the First Men on the Moon
Rocket Men: The Epic Story of the First Men on the Moon
Author: Craig Nelson
ISBN-13: 9780143144793 - ISBN-10: 0143144790
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Technology And Science in the Industrializing Nations 1500-1914: Control Of Nature
Technology And Science in the Industrializing Nations 1500-1914: Control Of Nature
Author: Eric Dorn Brose
ISBN-13: 9781591023678 - ISBN-10: 159102367X
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Magnificent Failure: Free Fall from the Edge of Space
Magnificent Failure: Free Fall from the Edge of Space
Author: Craig Ryan
ISBN-13: 9781588341419 - ISBN-10: 1588341410
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British Cattle (Shire Library)
British Cattle (Shire Library)
Author: Val Porter
ISBN-13: 9780747807643 - ISBN-10: 0747807647
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The Woman and the Car: A Chatty Little Handbook for the Edwardian Motoriste (Old House)
The Woman and the Car: A Chatty Little Handbook for the Edwardian Motoriste (Old House)
Author: Dorothy Levitt
ISBN-13: 9781908402875 - ISBN-10: 1908402873
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Rust: The Longest War
Rust: The Longest War
Author: Jonathan Waldman
ISBN-13: 9781451691597 - ISBN-10: 1451691599
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Scotch (Shire General)
Scotch (Shire General)
Author: Ted Bruning
ISBN-13: 9781784420574 - ISBN-10: 1784420573
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The Idealists: Aaron Swartz and the Rise of Free Culture on the Internet
The Idealists: Aaron Swartz and the Rise of Free Culture on the Internet
Author: Justin Peters
ISBN-13: 9781476767727 - ISBN-10: 1476767726
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The Iron Industry (Shire Library)
The Iron Industry (Shire Library)
Author: Richard Hayman
ISBN-13: 9780747814832 - ISBN-10: 074781483X
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Engineers
Engineers
Author: DK Publishing
ISBN-13: 9781465435972 - ISBN-10: 1465435972
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Places of Invention
Places of Invention
ISBN-13: 9781935623687 - ISBN-10: 1935623680
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Chilled: How Refrigeration Changed the World and Might Do So Again
Chilled: How Refrigeration Changed the World and Might Do So Again
Author: Tom Jackson
ISBN-13: 9781472911445 - ISBN-10: 147291144X
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The Idealist: Aaron Swartz and the Rise of Free Culture on the Internet
The Idealist: Aaron Swartz and the Rise of Free Culture on the Internet
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