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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: 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: Science & TechnologyThe Prophet of the Digital AgeA mathematician obsessed with fixing the errors of the Victorian world, Charles Babbage ...

• 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: Scientists - GeneralBefore the computer, before the steam engine, there was Ctesibius.In the bustling, brilliant city of Alexandria, 3rd centu...

• 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: 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 - GeneralBefore screens were everywhere, there was one man whose obsessive quest gave humanity the gift of sight-by wireless.John L...

• 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...