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• 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: 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: 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 & TechnologyIn 1937, Bell Labs physicist George Stibitz grew tired of endless manual calculations. His solution? He built the worl...

• 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 & TechnologyThe Architect of the Underground CityThe founder of the Brunel dynasty is often overlooked. Sir Marc Isambard Brunel (...

• Author(s): Michael Webster • Publisher: Michael Webster • Publisher Imprint: Michael Webster • BISAC: Entertainment & Performing Arts - GeneralIn the golden age of Hollywood, Hedy Lamarr was the screen goddess, branded "The Most Beautiful W...

• 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 climate we inhabit is engineered. When Willis Haviland Carrier, a quiet engineer from New York, solved a humidity ...

• 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...