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• Author(s): Michael Webster • Publisher: Michael Webster • Publisher Imprint: Michael Webster • BISAC: Science & TechnologyBefore the smartphone in your pocket, the television in your living room, or the dashboard of your car, there was one ...

• Author(s): Michael Webster • Publisher: Michael Webster • Publisher Imprint: Michael Webster • BISAC: FashionThe zipper. It's the sound of speed, convenience, and modernity. It's on your jacket, your luggage, and your shoes. But who invented it...

• Author(s): Michael Webster • Publisher: Michael Webster • Publisher Imprint: Michael Webster • BISAC: Scientists - GeneralHe invented the railway locomotive. He died penniless.Richard Trevithick, the self-taught Cornish genius, dared to harness...

• Author(s): Michael Webster • Publisher: Michael Webster • Publisher Imprint: Michael Webster • BISAC: Science & TechnologyHe invented the railway locomotive. He died penniless.Richard Trevithick, the self-taught Cornish genius, dared to har...

• Author(s): Michael Webster • Publisher: Michael Webster • Publisher Imprint: Michael Webster • BISAC: Scientists - GeneralHe armed the world with a single invention that changed the face of warfare forever. But who was the man behind the gun?Hi...

• Author(s): Michael Webster • Publisher: Michael Webster • Publisher Imprint: Michael Webster • BISAC: Medical - GeneralBefore the 18th century, smallpox was an unstoppable killer, a disease so common and so feared that it was simply accepted as...

• Author(s): Michael Webster • Publisher: Michael Webster • Publisher Imprint: Michael Webster • BISAC: MilitaryThe defining battle of World War II was fought not with guns, but with an invisible shield of radio waves. Meet the man who built it.R...

• Author(s): Michael Webster • Publisher: Michael Webster • Publisher Imprint: Michael Webster • BISAC: Aviation & NauticalWilliam Powell Lear (1902-1978) never finished high school, yet he became one of the most prolific and disruptive inven...

• Author(s): Michael Webster • Publisher: Michael Webster • Publisher Imprint: Michael Webster • BISAC: Science & TechnologyThe ballpoint pen is perhaps the most ubiquitous, overlooked piece of technology in the modern world. But behind the e...

• Author(s): Michael Webster • Publisher: Michael Webster • Publisher Imprint: Michael Webster • BISAC: Science & TechnologyBefore screens were everywhere, there was one man whose obsessive quest gave humanity the gift of sight-by wireless.Jo...

• Author(s): Michael Webster • Publisher: Michael Webster • Publisher Imprint: Michael Webster • BISAC: Scientists - GeneralIn a time of sultans and scholars, a brilliant mind emerged from the heart of the Islamic Golden Age. His name was Al-Jaza...

• Author(s): Michael Webster • Publisher: Michael Webster • Publisher Imprint: Michael Webster • BISAC: Scientists - GeneralThe real story of television is not of a corporation, but of a quiet, relentless inventor. Philo T. Farnsworth created the...