Inventions & Inventors
"The Balloon Factory"The Story of the Men Who Built Britain's First Flying Machines
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A book about a small, largely forgotten group of young men who, early in the twentieth century, competed to build and fly Britain's first aeroplane. It features the Balloon Factory, a cathedral-sized shed overlooking Farnborough Common, and its most celebrated occupant, the remarkable Sam Cody. Hardback, 243 pages. Size: 234 x 153 mm. Weight: 470g.
Author: Frater, Alexander
ISBN: 0330433105
Publisher: Pan MacMillan
Date: 2008 (United Kingdom)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) Inventions & Inventors
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"Gadget Nation"A Journey Through the Eccentric World of Invention
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Features more than 100 innovations and inventions such as: a Finger Shield for when you're chopping food and a nappy for your pet bird. This book also includes the background story on every invention, along with a statistics-filled sidebar, photographs, illustrations and diagrams. With full colour throughout, includes photographs, includes illustrations & diagrams. Hardback, 256 pages. Size: 229 x 229 mm. Weight: 25g.
Author: Greenberg, Steve
ISBN: 140273686X
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Co Inc
Date: 2008 (United States)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) Inventions & Inventors
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"100 Local Heroes"
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For more than five years, Adam Hart-Davis travelled the length and breadth of Britain, bringing to life in his TV series, Local Heroes, pioneers of science, invention and technology. This book presents 100 of the best stories: ingenious or odd, different or daft, but always entertaining. With further reading, index. Rev ed. Paperback (B Format), 416 pages. Size: 198 x 129 mm. Weight: 372g.
Author: Hart-Davis, Adam Bader, Paul
ISBN: 0750923733
Publisher: Npi Media Group
Date: 1999 (UK)
Readership: General Inventions & Inventors
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"Inventing for Dummies Uk Edition"
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"For Dummies" series; Guides you through various aspects of developing your inventive ideas. This book discusses various topics, from protecting your invention and product development to finding investment and selling your product into the marketplace. It helps you get your great ideas off the ground and start your business. With illustrations. Paperback, 394 pages. Size: 237 x 190 mm. Weight: 795g.
Author: Jackson, Peter
ISBN: 0470519967
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Date: 2008 (United Kingdom)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Inventions & Inventors
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"The Complete Idiot's Guide to Cashing in on Your Inventions"
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Presents information on how to successfully market an invention covering such topics as licensing options, negotiating deals, patents and trademarks, and copyrights. Paperback, 360 pages. Size: 222 x 184 mm. Weight: 1000g.
Author: Levy, Richard C.
ISBN: 0028642201
Publisher: Pearson Professional Education
Date: 2002 (Usa)
Readership: General Inventions & Inventors
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"Mad and Miraculous Inventions Interactive Quiz"
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Inventors - geniuses or madmen? You decide with this fantastically mind-blowing quiz full of the best and wackiest inventions ever. Hardback, 96 pages. Weight: 200g.
Author: McCann, Gwen (Bamford, Nikole G., ed.)
ISBN: 190479758X
Publisher: Lagoon Books
Date: 2005 (United Kingdom)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) Inventions & Inventors
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"Cat Flaps and Mouse Traps"
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From the moment the alarm clock wakes us in the morning until the time we switch the light off at night, we are surrounded by things without which our lives would be impossible. This volume reveals the stories that lie behind the objects and inventions we take for granted, from household items to the technology that fills our world. With illustrations throughout. Hardback, 304 pages. Size: 186 x 115 mm. Weight: 309g.
Author: Oliver, Harry
ISBN: 1844544745
Publisher: Blake Publishing
Date: 2007 (United Kingdom)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) Inventions & Inventors
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"Makers"100 People Who Make Amazing Things in Their Backyard, Basement of Garage
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Celebrating digital tinkering, hardware hacks, and DIY of various stripes, this work profiles 100 people and their homebrew projects - people who make ingenious things in their backyards, basements and garages. With illustrations (chiefly col.). Hardback, 184 pages. Size: 232 x 178 mm. Weight: 728g.
Author: Parks, Bob
ISBN: 0596101880
Publisher: O'reilly Media, Inc, Usa
Date: 2005 (United States)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) Inventions & Inventors
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"Patently Erotic"Tear-Away Bras, Couple's Chairs, Vibrating Condoms and Other Patented Strokes of Genius
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In this unique collection of unbelievable real-life patent applications, author, photographer and connoisseur of the bizarre and faintly disturbing, Richard Ross, has delved into the archives of patent offices to take a look at contraptions designed to titillate and facilitate. With b&w line drawings throughout. Hardback, 144 pages. Size: 205 x 205 mm. Weight: 416g.
Author: Ross, Richard
ISBN: 1861059108
Publisher: Anova Books
Date: 2005 (United Kingdom)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) Inventions & Inventors
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"Future Proof"The Greatest Gadgets and Gizmos Ever Imagined
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Charts from prototype to realization the real-life technical evolution of 50 of the poplar science-fiction inventions. This title includes: Buck Rogers' jetpack, Jetsons - Flying cars, Star Trek's transporters, The Six Million-Dollar Man's cyborg, Sleeper's Orgasmatron, and 2001's artificial intelligence. With colour illustrations. Paperback, 160 pages. Size: 203 x 159 mm. Weight: 392g.
Author: Sagan, Nick
ISBN: 1848310048
Publisher: Icon Books Ltd
Date: 2008 (United Kingdom)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) Inventions & Inventors
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"The Illustrated Timeline of Inventions"A Crash Course in Words and Pictures
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Covers several inventions: from the spear to the printing press to the computer: This book tells who created everything from buttons, glass, the first cart with wheels, and clocks to telescopes, submarines, telegraphy, patent medicines, machine guns, washing machines, plastic, jet engines and disposable nappies. With full colour photos throughout. Hardback, 128 pages. Size: 140 x 216 mm. Weight: 296g.
Author: Sandler, Craig
ISBN: 1402748620
Publisher: Sterling Juvenile
Date: 2008 (United States)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) Inventions & Inventors
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"Tomorrow's World"Genius Gadgets and Gizmos - Weird and Wonderful Contraptions From Yesterday's Future
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We have arrived in the future, and we're not wearing silver space suits to work or eating pills instead of food, we can look back with some amusement on Tomorrow's World. This book recalls the best of TW's occasional successes and frequent failures. With 120 f/c and b/w photos. Hardback, 128 pages. Size: 202 x 157 mm. Weight: 384g.
Author: Stubbs, David
ISBN: 1846075785
Publisher: Ebury Press
Date: 2008 (United Kingdom)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) Inventions & Inventors
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"Patently Silly"
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Written by a stand-up comic with a Batchelor of Science degree in engineering, this book features an incredible range of patents for inventions that strain the boundaries of imagination, taste and any form of usefulness! Hardback, 224 pages. Size: 169 x 164 mm. Weight: 500g.
Author: Wright, Daniel
ISBN: 1853756849
Publisher: Carlton Books Ltd
Date: 2008 (United Kingdom)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) Inventions & Inventors
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"Wastewater Use in Irrigated Agriculture"Confronting the Livelihood and Environmental Realities
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Driven by rapid urbanization and growing wastewater volumes, wastewater is used as a low cost alternative to conventional irrigation water, and generates considerable value in urban and peri-urban agriculture despite the health and environmental risks associated with this practice. This volume addresses the use of urban wastewater in agriculture. With illustrations. Paperback, 193 pages. Size: 239 x 171 mm. Weight: 476g.
Author: (Scott, C.A., ed.)
ISBN: 1845934512
Publisher: Cabi Publishing
Date: 2008 (United Kingdom)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Irrigation
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"Machinery for Horticulture"
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The diversity of horticulture and its machinery is catered for in this book by sections on two and four-wheeled tractors, cultivation, sowing, crop protection, and harvesting equipment. Further chapters cover grass cutting, turf care, grounds maintenance, irrigation, and glasshouse equipment. With 33 colour and 327 illustrations. 2 rev ed. Hardback, 304 pages. Size: 252 x 194 mm. Weight: 940g.
Author: Bell, Brian Cousins, Stewart
ISBN: 0852363699
Publisher: Old Pond Publishing Ltd
Date: 1997 (United Kingdom)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) Irrigation
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