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Author : Steve Silverman
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Total Pages : 183 pages
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Download or read book Einstein's Refrigerator written by Steve Silverman and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Andrews McMeel Publishing
Publisher : Andrews McMeel Pub
ISBN 13 : 9780740724909
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Download or read book Einstein's Refrig.Hallmark written by Andrews McMeel Publishing and published by Andrews McMeel Pub. This book was released on 2002-02-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Einstein's Refrigerator : and Other Stories from the Flip Side of History written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Steve Silverman was looking for a way to add some spice to his high school lectures when he realized that weird and bizarre true-life stories would capture his students' attention. In fact, they worked so well that the science teacher then began posting his discoveries to his own Web site, which he dubbed Useless Information. Well-researched and clearly sourced, Silverman's unusual tidbits have gained a wide following.In Einstein's Refrigerator, Silverman collects more than 30 of the most fascinating stories he has gathered—tales of forgotten genius, great blunders, and incredible feats of survival, as well as answers to puzzling questions. Einstein's Refrigerator is a remarkable book with spellbinding stories. Whatever happened to the refrigerator Einstein helped invent? While it never became a commercial success, its underlying concepts became the basis for cooling nuclear breeder reactors.
Author : Steve Silverman
Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780740714191
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)
Download or read book Einstein's Refrigerator written by Steve Silverman and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2001-05-14 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents strange-but-true stories about such topics as a headless chicken that lived eighteen months, Albert Einstein's designs for refrigerators, and how a Donald Duck cartoon saved a ship.
Author : Steve Silverman
Publisher : Mango Media Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1642502219
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Flip Side of History written by Steve Silverman and published by Mango Media Inc.. This book was released on 2020-07-14 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amazing forgotten true stories from the creator of the Useless Information blog and podcast. A prominent lawyer leaves his entire estate to a town for the establishment of a library that forbids women—setting off riots, arrests, and the near hanging of a judge. The amazing story of the only person rescued from slavery by the Underground Railroad four times. That time a man in the 1950s stole hundreds of women’s shoes in Coronado and San Diego, California. The shoes, most of them the left shoe, were found dispersed randomly all over town. There are so many historical facts and stories that get left out of textbooks. Now the author of Einstein’s Refrigerator and host of the popular Useless Information podcast, Steve Silverman, presents a collection of fun facts and strange news—some that made headlines and others that have been lost to history—that highlight the quirks, complexities, and curiousness of humankind.
Author : Joshua Foer
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101475978
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)
Download or read book Moonwalking with Einstein written by Joshua Foer and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-03-03 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Highly entertaining.” —Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker “Funny, curious, erudite, and full of useful details about ancient techniques of training memory.” —The Boston Globe The blockbuster phenomenon that charts an amazing journey of the mind while revolutionizing our concept of memory An instant bestseller that is poised to become a classic, Moonwalking with Einstein recounts Joshua Foer's yearlong quest to improve his memory under the tutelage of top "mental athletes." He draws on cutting-edge research, a surprising cultural history of remembering, and venerable tricks of the mentalist's trade to transform our understanding of human memory. From the United States Memory Championship to deep within the author's own mind, this is an electrifying work of journalism that reminds us that, in every way that matters, we are the sum of our memories.
Author : Steve Silverman
Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780740733406
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)
Download or read book Lindbergh's Artificial Heart written by Steve Silverman and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents strange-but-true stories from history and science about such topics as the artificial heart invented by aviator Charles Lindbergh, dead whale disposal, the study of nose picking, and a man who makes instruments from burned wooden matchsticks.
Author : Colin Smith
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801886225
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)
Download or read book This Cold House written by Colin Smith and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2007-06-06 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does turning the thermostat down on a winter's night offset the costs of reheating the house in the morning? What will best prevent energy loss: new windows or insulation in the attic? Is heating oil cheaper than natural gas? Blending science with anecdote and example, Colin Smith answers questions like these, providing an insightful guide to creating an environmentally friendly home without sacrificing comfort. This Cold House helps homeowners identify heating and cooling priorities and choose the most appropriate methods, tools, and equipment. Basic equations allow you to estimate possible savings in annual heating and cooling bills and determine payback times for improvement projects. Practical and entertaining, This Cold House illuminates the concepts behind energy efficiency and translates them into ideas you can use, whether you live in a castle, igloo, or house. -- Dan Holohan
Author : Henry Petroski
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307473503
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Essential Engineer written by Henry Petroski and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-03-08 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the acclaimed author of The Pencil and To Engineer Is Human, The Essential Engineer is an eye-opening exploration of the ways in which science and engineering must work together to address our world’s most pressing issues, from dealing with climate change and the prevention of natural disasters to the development of efficient automobiles and the search for renewable energy sources. While the scientist may identify problems, it falls to the engineer to solve them. It is the inherent practicality of engineering, which takes into account structural, economic, environmental, and other factors that science often does not consider, that makes engineering vital to answering our most urgent concerns. Henry Petroski takes us inside the research, development, and debates surrounding the most critical challenges of our time, exploring the feasibility of biofuels, the progress of battery-operated cars, and the question of nuclear power. He gives us an in-depth investigation of the various options for renewable energy—among them solar, wind, tidal, and ethanol—explaining the benefits and risks of each. Will windmills soon populate our landscape the way they did in previous centuries? Will synthetic trees, said to be more efficient at absorbing harmful carbon dioxide than real trees, soon dot our prairies? Will we construct a “sunshade” in outer space to protect ourselves from dangerous rays? In many cases, the technology already exists. What’s needed is not so much invention as engineering. Just as the great achievements of centuries past—the steamship, the airplane, the moon landing—once seemed beyond reach, the solutions to the twenty-first century’s problems await only a similar coordination of science and engineering. Eloquently reasoned and written, The Essential Engineer identifies and illuminates these problems—and, above all, sets out a course for putting ideas into action.
Author : Bee Wilson
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0465033326
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)
Download or read book Consider the Fork written by Bee Wilson and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2012-10-09 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Award-winning food writer Bee Wilson's secret history of kitchens, showing how new technologies - from the fork to the microwave and beyond - have fundamentally shaped how and what we eat. Since prehistory, humans have braved sharp knives, fire, and grindstones to transform raw ingredients into something delicious -- or at least edible. But these tools have also transformed how we consume, and how we think about, our food. In Consider the Fork, award-winning food writer Bee Wilson takes readers on a wonderful and witty tour of the evolution of cooking around the world, revealing the hidden history of objects we often take for granted. Technology in the kitchen does not just mean the Pacojets and sous-vide machines of the modern kitchen, but also the humbler tools of everyday cooking and eating: a wooden spoon and a skillet, chopsticks and forks. Blending history, science, and personal anecdotes, Wilson reveals how our culinary tools and tricks came to be and how their influence has shaped food culture today. The story of how we have tamed fire and ice and wielded whisks, spoons, and graters, all for the sake of putting food in our mouths, Consider the Fork is truly a book to savor.
