|
|
|
|
|
The Big Idea: How Breakthroughs of the Past Shape the Future
|
|
|
|
|
Author
|
|
|
Timothy Ferris, foreword.
|
|
|
Publisher
|
National Geographic
|
|
Format
|
hardcover
|
|
Product Dimensions
|
11.2
x
9.5
x
1
inches
|
|
ISBN
|
9781426208102
|
|
Pages/Publication Date
|
319/2011
|
|
Daedalus Item Code
|
30599
|
|
|
|
List Price:
$35.00
Sale Price:
$9.98
You Save:
$25.02
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Description
|
|
|
|
From the Pythagorean theorem to the double helix of DNA, from the discovery of microscopic life forms to Einstein's general theory of relativity, the big ideas of science and technology shape our worldview. This book presents six illustrated timelines—information, medicine, physics, chemistry, biology, and transportation—chronicling scientific and technological breakthroughs and the thinkers who came up with them. But these timelines flow backwards; from a big idea like quantum computing, for example, the book looks back to vacuum tube computers, the work of Allan Turing, television, quantum theory, the discovery of radio waves, the electrical technologies of Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison, and Alexander Graham Bell's telephone.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
You might also like:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 |
|
| Special Relativity: A First Encounter
|
| Domenico Giulini. |
| Publisher: Oxford. Format: paperback. ISBN: 9780198567479. Daedalus Item Code: 30728 |
| List Price: $17.95 Sale Price: $4.98
You Save: $12.97 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 |
|
| What Technology Wants
|
| Kevin Kelly. |
| Publisher: Viking. Format: hardcover. ISBN: 9780670022151. Daedalus Item Code: 31670 |
| List Price: $27.95 Sale Price: $5.98
You Save: $21.97 |
|
|
|
|
 |
|
| The Numerati
|
| Stephen Baker. |
| Publisher: Mariner. Format: paperback. ISBN: 9780547247939. Daedalus Item Code: 31714 |
| List Price: $14.95 Sale Price: $4.98
You Save: $9.97 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
