Nuts and Bolts: Seven Small Inventions That Changed the World (in a Big Way)

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The idea for ‘Nuts and Bolts’ has been with the author most of her life, and she recalls her childhood in New York where she whiled away her time decoding the “sheer scale and drama” of the skyscrapers that surrounded her. This curiosity extended to cars, computers and coffee machines, leading her down a path not only to a successful career in engineering, but also towards a deep understanding of the evolution of these early innovations that would become fascinating chapters in a book about who we were, are and will be as humans. Nuts & Bolts Vol. 23: Panzerjager I, 4,7 cm Pak (t) auf Pz.Kpfw.I Ausf.B ohne Turm [Sd.Kfz. 101] "Ente"

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Softcover. Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. Clean and tight, this copy shows light shelf wear and rubbing to glossy softcard covers. Bilingual English/German text German/English captions. HArd to find early volume. Forgotten the title or the author of a book? Our BookSleuth is specially designed for you. Visit BookSleuth Explaining the workings of familiar objects is a well-worn conceit. Agrawal enriches her account by showing how her chosen devices also work in combination, creating artefacts as unlikely as they are exotic. So, while Cochran’s dishwasher sits at the heart of the discussion of wheels, the chapter ends with a stellar flourish, describing the four 100kg gyroscopes, spinning 6,600 times a minute, whose angular momentum stabilises the International Space Station in Earth orbit.Roma Agrawal is an engineer, author and presenter who is best known for working on the design of The Shard, Western Europe's tallest tower. She studied engineering atImperial College London and physics at the University of Oxford. Roma has given talks to thousands at universities, schools and organisations around the world, including TEDx. Agrawal explores an array of intricate technologies—dishwashers, spacesuits, microscopes, suspension bridges, breast pumps—making surprising connections, explaining how they work, and using her own hand-drawn illustrations to clarify complex technical principles.”

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Some of engineering’s mightiest achievements are small in scale, even hidden—and yet, without them, the complex machinery on which our modern world runs would not exist. So, as engineers, let’s place the good of the planet and its inhabitants at the heart of our work,” Agrawal concludes, with a glibness that would be funny if it were not so trying. From the physics behind both Roman nails and modern skyscrapers to rudimentary springs that inspired lithium batteries, Agrawal shows us how even the most sophisticated items are built on the foundations of these ancient and fundamental breakthroughs in engineering.”Take the story of Stephanie Kwolek, a chemistry major who in 1946 got a job at the chemicals company DuPont and invented poly-paraphenylene terephthalamide (Kevlar fibre to you). Agrawal says Kwolek’s discovery was “all the more noteworthy because it took place in an industry that, at the time, was extremely male-dominated.”

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printing. Condition: Near Fine in stiff wraps. Illus by Robert Harrison. (illustrator). First Edition. ISBN: 0897322630 First Edition. Illus by Robert Harrison. Near Fine in stiff wraps. ISBN: 0897322630. Barrier-free Travel: A Nuts and Bolts Guide for Wheelers and Slow Walkers (Barrier-Free Travel: A Nuts & Bolts Guide for Wheelers & Slow Walker)Staplebound) Very good plus. 49pp. Illustrations, photographs, bibliography. The covers lightly rubbed. Parallel text in German and English. Locale: Germany. (Weapons, Armored Fighting Vehicles--Germany, Military, Pak 40--Armored Fighting Vehicle--Germany, World War 2). There’s also a superb discussion of the peculiar, overtone-rich and resonant tone of the tanpura – a guitar-like Indian classic instrument that creates, refines and embellishes to a high art the buzzing sound that Western instrument-making tradition generally goes out of its way to avoid. Smartphones, skyscrapers, spacecraft. Modern technology seems mind-bogglingly complex. But beneath the surface, it can be beautifully simple.