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Imprint: Orient Paperbacks
Publication Date: 08 Sep, 2008
Pages Count: 184 Pages
Weight: 265.00 Grams
Dimensions: 5.50 x 8.50 Inches
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About the Book:
21 Inventions that changed the world.
Amazing stories behind some of the little (and big) things we can't imagine living without — and how innovation, enterprise, science and technology have transformed our lives for the better. Is there a common theme underpinning some of the most successful products covered in the book? Is there a link between the entrepreneurs and inventors who made it to the list of Top 100 and the Richets?
Perhaps there is. Hungarian Nobel Prize winning scientist Szent-Gyorgyi believes that discovering is seeing what everybody sees — but thinking what nobody does.
The book presents the perspicacity and creativity of twenty-one entrepreneurs, scientists and engineers whose ideas, accidents and even failures have changed their world and our world forever.
Foreword
Introduction
References
Dr. Simon Torok works in communication and marketing for Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO). He has a Ph.D in Earth Sciences from the University of Melbourne and a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication from the Australian National University (ANU). Simon has worked as editor of CSIRO’s Helix magazine, and as a climate communicator in the United Kingdom. He has done science talkback segments on radio and has published dozens of newspaper, magazine and scientific journal articles. He hopes one day to invent a car radio that features a ‘record’ button, and would really like to see someone develop an analogue clock radio.
Paul Holper works for CSIRO in business development and communication. He has an Honours Degree in Chemistry, a Diploma of Education, and a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. He often appears in the media describing Australia’s latest scientific advances, and has written numerous newspaper and magazine articles as well as a CSIRO Division history. The invention that Paul craves is a pill that instantly gives you full command of subject areas or skills. He would immediately take a French-speaking capsule and tennis-playing tablet.