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Backroom Boys - The Secret Return of the British Boffin (Paperback, Main)
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Backroom Boys - The Secret Return of the British Boffin (Paperback, Main)
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List price R368
Loot Price R332
Discovery Miles 3 320
You Save R36 (10%)
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A brilliant, beautiful account of how British boffins triumphed
across the decades in creating everything from computer games to
Martian landers. The book contains chapters on the Beagle II, Elite
- the 80s computer game, the Blue Streak missile, Concorde, mobile
phone technology and the Human Genome Project, among others.
Britain is the only country in the world to have cancelled its
space programme just as it put its first rocket into orbit.
Starting with this forgotten episode, 'Backroom Boys' tells the
bittersweet story of how one country lost its industrial tradition
and got back something else. Sad, inspiring, funny and ultimately
triumphant, it follows the technologists whose work kept Concorde
flying, created the computer game, conquered the mobile-phone
business, saved the human genome for the human race - and who now
are sending the Beagle 2 probe to burrow in the cinnamon sands of
Mars. 'Backroom Boys' is a vivid love-letter to quiet men in
pullovers, to those whose imaginings take shape not in words but in
mild steel and carbon fibre and lines of code. Above all, it is a
celebration of big dreams achieved with slender means.
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