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Unlocking the Sky tells the extraordinary tale of the race to design, refine, and manufacture a manned flying machine, a race that took place in the air, on the ground, and in the courtrooms of America. While the Wright brothers threw a veil of secrecy over their flying machine, Glenn Hammond Curtiss -- perhaps the greatest aviator and aeronautical inventor of all time -- freely exchanged information with engineers in America and abroad, resulting in his famous airplane, the June Bug, which made the first ever public flight in America. Fiercely jealous, the Wright brothers took to the courts to keep Curtiss and his airplane out of the sky and off the market. Ultimately, however, it was Curtiss's innovations and designs, not the Wright brothers', that served as the model for the modern airplane.
How can each of us live "Cooler Smarter"? While the routine
decisions that shape our days--what to have for dinner, where to
shop, how to get to work--may seem small, collectively they have a
big effect on global warming. But which changes in our lifestyles
might make the biggest difference to the climate? This
science-based guide shows you the most effective ways to cut your
own global warming emissions by twenty percent or more, and
explains why your individual contribution is so vital to addressing
this global problem.
This vitally important expose shows how the Bush administration has
systematically misled Americans on a wide range of scientific
issues affecting public health, foreign policy, and the environment
by ignoring, suppressing, manipulating, or even distorting
scientific research. It is the first book to focus exclusively on
how this explosive issue has played out during the presidency of
George W. Bush and the first to comprehensively document his
administration's abuses of science. This paperback edition contains
a new preface bringing to light the most up-to-date research on
these abuses.
Throughout his career, Alexander Graham Bell, one of the world's most famous inventors, was plagued by a secret: he stole the key idea behind the invention of the telephone. While researching at MIT, science journalist Seth Shulman scrutinized Bell's journals and within them found the smoking gun: a hint of deeply buried historical deception. Delving further into Bell's life, Shulman unearthed the surprising story behind the telephone, a tale of romance, corruption, and unchecked ambition.
While researching Alexander Graham Bell at MIT's Dibner Institute, Seth Shulman scrutinised Bell's journals and within them he found a smoking gun, a hint of deeply buried historical intrigue. Delving further, Shulman unearthed the surprising story behind the invention of the telephone: a tale of romance, corruption and unchecked ambition.Bell furtively-and illegally-copied part of Elisha Gray's invention in the race to secure what would become the most valuable US patent ever issued. And afterwards, as Bell's device led to the world's largest monopoly, the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, he hid his invention's illicit beginnings. In "The Telephone Gambit" Shulman challenges the reputation of an icon of invention, rocks the foundation of a corporate behemoth and offers a probing meditation on how little we know about the history of one of the world's most important inventions.
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