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Ingenious
Author | : Jason Fagone |
Publsiher | : Crown |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2013-11-05 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 9780307591500 |
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An epic tale of invention, in which ordinary people’s lives are changed forever by their quest to engineer a radically new kind of car In 2007, the X Prize Foundation announced that it would give $10 million to anyone who could build a safe, mass-producible car that could travel 100 miles on the energy equivalent of a gallon of gas. The challenge attracted more than one hundred teams from all over the world, including dozens of amateurs. Many designed their cars entirely from scratch, rejecting decades of thinking about what a car should look like. Jason Fagone follows four of those teams from the build stage to the final race and beyond—into a world in which destiny hangs on a low drag coefficient and a lug nut can be a beautiful talisman. The result is a gripping story of crazy collaboration, absurd risks, colossal hopes, and poignant losses. In an old pole barn in central Illinois, childhood sweethearts hack together an electric-powered dreamboat, using scavenged parts, forging their own steel, and burning through their life savings. In Virginia, an impassioned entrepreneur and his hand-picked squad of speed freaks pool their imaginations and build a car so light that you can push it across the floor with your thumb. In West Philly, a group of disaffected high school students come into their own as they create a hybrid car with the engine of a Harley motorcycle. And in Southern California, the early favorite—a start-up backed by millions in venture capital—designs a car that looks like an alien egg. Ingenious is a joyride. Fagone takes us into the garages and the minds of the inventors, capturing the fractious yet beautiful process of engineering a bespoke machine. Suspenseful and bighearted, this is the story of ordinary people risking failure, economic ruin, and ridicule to create something vital that Detroit had never pulled off. As the Illinois team wrote in chalk on the wall of their barn, "SOMEBODY HAS TO DO SOMETHING. THAT SOMEBODY IS US."
Innovation Nation
Author | : David Johnston,Tom Jenkins |
Publsiher | : Tundra Books |
Total Pages | : 129 |
Release | : 2021-05-04 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780735270602 |
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This young readers edition of Ingenious focuses on 50 kid-friendly Canadian innovations that changed the world, from canoes to whoopie cushions, chocolate bars to Pablum. Co-written by Canada's Governor General and accompanied by contemporary illustrations, this adaptation offers young Canadians a way to celebrate our history and world contributions on Canada's 150th birthday. Successful innovation is always inspired by at least one of three forces -- insight, necessity and simple luck. Innovation Nation moves through history to explore what circumstances, incidents, coincidences and collaborations motivated each great Canadian idea, and what twist of fate then brought that idea into public acceptance. From the marvels of aboriginal inventions such as the canoe, igloo and lifejacket to the latest pioneering advances in medicine, education, science, engineering and the arts, Canadians have improvised and worked together to make the world a better place. With striking, vibrant illustrations throughout, Innovation Nation is a gorgeous companion to the adult edition that will surprise, enlighten and entertain young readers, and will be a valuable resource for teachers and librarians.
Ingenious
Author | : Peter Gluckman,Mark Hanson |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780674976887 |
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The trouble with innovation is that it can seldom be undone. We invent technologies to modify our environments in immediately beneficial ways, but the long-term consequences can be costly. From obesity to antibiotic resistance, we pay for our successes. Peter Gluckman and Mark Hanson explore what happens when our creations lead nature to bite back.
Ingenious Mechanisms for Designers and Inventors
Author | : Franklin D. Jones,Franklin Day Jones,Holbrook Lynedon Horton,John A. Newell |
Publsiher | : Industrial Press Inc. |
Total Pages | : 550 |
Release | : 1930 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 0831110309 |
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''Many contributors have submitted for publication in Machinery's columns most of the mechanical movements described.''.
Ingenious Mechanicks
Author | : Christopher Schwarz |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 135 |
Release | : 2018-04 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 0997870273 |
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Curiosities for the Ingenious
Author | : J. Taylor |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 206 |
Release | : 1822 |
Genre | : Curiosities and wonders |
ISBN | : KBNL:KBNL03000092720 |
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Ingenious Machinists
Author | : Anthony J. Connors |
Publsiher | : SUNY Press |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2014-10-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781438454023 |
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Uses the stories of two inventors who took different paths to examine the early industrial revolution in New York and New England. Ingenious Machinists recounts the early development of industrialization in New England and New York through the lives of two prominent innovators whose work advanced the transformation to factory work and corporations, the rise of the middle class, and other momentous changes in nineteenth-century America. Paul Moody chose a secure path as a corporate engineer in the Waltham-Lowell system that both rewarded and constrained his career. David Wilkinson was a risk-taking entrepreneur from Rhode Island who went bankrupt and relocated to Cohoes, New York, where he was instrumental in that citys early industrial development. Anthony J. Connors writes not just a history of technological innovation and business development, but also two interwoven stories about these inventors. He shows the textile industry not in its decline, but in its days of great social and economic promise. It is a story of the social consequences of new technology and the risks and rewards of the exhilarating, but unsettling, early years of industrial capitalism. David Wilkinson and Paul Moody have long deserved full biographies. By comparing the careers of two notable figures and including a wealth of material about the people around them, Connors gives us a much more detailed, varied, and realistic image of life in industrial America than we have seen before. This is social, technological, business, and economic history at its best, all tied together in a compelling dual biography. The book will fascinate general readers with an interest in history or biography, but it will also appeal strongly to specialists in many fields. Patrick M. Malone, author of Waterpower in Lowell: Engineering and Industry in Nineteenth-Century America
Ingenious Trade
Author | : Laura Gowing |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 287 |
Release | : 2021-12-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781108486385 |
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Reveals the stories of girls making their way as apprentices in 17th-century London, through arguments, thefts, profits, and paperwork.