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Small Inventions That Made a Big Difference

Small Inventions That Made a Big Difference - Hardcover

by Helen Pilcher
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Availability:In StockContributor:Helen PilcherPublish date:2021-10-05Pages:320
Language:EnglishPublisher:Welbeck PublishingISBN-13:9781787397873ISBN-10:1787397874UPC:9781787397873Book Category:Technology & Engineering, ScienceBook Subcategory:Inventions, History, Industrial DesignBook Topic:ProductSize:8.60 x 5.40 x 1.30 inchesWeight:1.0516Product ID:SCPCTHGVQA

Pockets, matches, spectacles, postage stamps.

Whether it's the stitches that hold our clothes together or the syringes that deliver life-saving vaccines, small things really do make a big difference. Yet these modest but essential components of everyday life are often overlooked.

Science and comedy writer Helen Pilcher shares the unexpected stories of 50 humble innovations - from the accidental soldering of two bits of metal that created the pacemaker, to the eighteenth-century sea captain whose ingenious invention paved the way for the filming of Star Wars - and celebrates the joy of the small yet mighty.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Welbeck PublishingISBN-13:9781787397873ISBN-10:1787397874UPC:9781787397873Book Category:Technology & Engineering, ScienceBook Subcategory:Inventions, History, Industrial DesignBook Topic:ProductSize:8.60 x 5.40 x 1.30 inchesWeight:1.0516Product ID:SCPCTHGVQA
Pilcher, Helen: - "

Helen Pilcher is a tea-drinking, biscuit-nibbling science and comedy writer with a PhD in Neuroscience. Her recent popular science book, Life Changing - How Humans are Altering Life on Earth, was shortlisted for the 2020 Wainwright Prize for Writing on Global Conservation. Her debut book, Bring Back the King: the New Science of De-extinction, was selected as a BBC Radio 2 Fact Not Fiction Book Choice. It was described by comedian Sara Pascoe as "science at its funniest".


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