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  • - The Making of the Modern Computer
    by Jon Agar
    £7.99

    The history of the computer is entwined with that of the modern world and most famously with the life of one man, Alan Turing. How did this device, which first appeared a mere 50 years ago, come to structure and dominate our lives so totally? An enlightening mini-biography of a brilliant but troubled man.

  • - Electricity in the Enlightenment
    by Patricia Fara
    £7.99

  • - Invention of the Jet
    by Andrew Nahum
    £7.99

    Tells the true story of Frank Whittle inventing the jet engine and revolutionizing avaiation.

  • by Iwan Morus
    £7.99

    Michael Faraday, one of the most recognizable names in science, was one of the pioneering forces behind the development of electricity as a source of energy. But what was his exact role in all this? This is the story of his upbringing and education, with the backdrop of an empire near the peak of its power.

  • - A History
    by Ehsan Masood
    £9.49

    Long before the European Enlightenment, scholars and researchers working from Samarkand in modern-day Uzbekistan to Cordoba in Spain advanced our knowledge of astronomy, chemistry, engineering, mathematics, medicine and philosophy.From Musa al-Khwarizmi who developed algebra in 9th century Baghdad to al-Jazari, a 13th-century Turkish engineer whose achievements include the crank, the camshaft and the reciprocating piston,Ehsan Masood tells the amazing story of one of history's most misunderstood yet rich and fertile periods in science, via the scholars, research, and science of the Islamic empires of the middle ages.

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