Nuts and Bolts: Seven Small Inventions That Changed the World (in a Big Way)
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Nuts and Bolts: Seven Small Inventions That Changed the World (in a Big Way)
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When it comes to communicating the stakes involved in engineering, one could hardly do better than her description of a heart-lung patient, the beneficiary of 4,000 years of evolving pump design, asleep on the table, her heart and lungs removed so the surgeon can see the back of her ribcage. Als Versandart wählen wir immer eine schnelle Option (in Deutschland Brief oder DHL-Paket, ins Ausland Warenpost oder DHL-Paket). Roma is passionate about promoting engineering and technical careers to young people, particularly those from minoritized groups, and has won international awards for her technical prowess and for her advocacy for the profession, including the prestigious Royal Academy of Engineering's Rooke Award. Agrawal explores an array of intricate technologies—dishwashers, spacesuits, microscopes, suspension bridges, breast pumps—making surprising connections, explaining how they work, and using her own hand-drawn illustrations to clarify complex technical principles. Tracing the surprising journeys of each invention through the millennia, Roma reveals how handmade Roman nails led to modern skyscrapers, how the potter's wheel enabledspace exploration, and how humble lenses helped her conceive a child against the odds.
Nuts and Bolts | Roma Agrawal | 9781529340075 | NetGalley Nuts and Bolts | Roma Agrawal | 9781529340075 | NetGalley
Roma Agrawal has a special skill of reawakening that part of us that simply wants to understand how the built world works, and to dream of creating our own machines. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions. I’d already assumed, in my bleak way, that the UK was one of the worst countries for just chucking electronic equipment into landfill.Along the way, she recounts the stories of remarkable scientists and engineers from all over the world, and reveals how engineering has fundamentally changed the way we live. Tracing the surprising journeys of each invention through the millennia, Roma reveals how handmade Roman nails led to modern skyscrapers, how the potter's wheel enabled space exploration, and how humble lenses helped her conceive a child against the odds. Agrawal’s detours into politics – the plight of women in STEM, the use of male physical norms in product design – are less happy.
Nuts and Bolts by Roma Agrawal | Royal Society
Take the story of Stephanie Kwolek, a chemistry major who in 1946 got a job at the chemicals company DuPont and invented poly-paraphenylene terephthalamide (Kevlar fibre to you). It is this notion that forms the core of Roma Agrawal’s non-fictional examination of the engineering fundamentals behind the physical world we live in today. Tracing the surprising journeys of each invention through the millennia, Roma reveals how handmade Roman nails led to modern skyscrapers, how the potter’s wheel enabled space exploration, and how humble lenses helped her conceive a child against the odds. She invites us to marvel at these small but perfectly formed inventions, sharing the stories of the remarkable, and often unknown, scientists and engineers who made them possible.
While it’s tempting to think of ‘Nuts and Bolts’ as an examination of old-fashioned things relegated to rusty tobacco tins in sheds, it’s also worth keeping in mind that the phrase ‘nuts and bolts’ has passed into our everyday language to signify what’s really important about any situation. There’s also a superb discussion of the peculiar, overtone-rich and resonant tone of the tanpura – a guitar-like Indian classic instrument that creates, refines and embellishes to a high art the buzzing sound that Western instrument-making tradition generally goes out of its way to avoid. At the end of the Second World War The British Intelligence Objectives Subcommittee (BIOS) and other Agency personnel inspected German factories, laboratories, industries, etc, to scrutinise documents and interrogate or interview the directors, scientists, engineers, etc to obtain technical information that might be of value. So, while Cochran’s dishwasher sits at the heart of the discussion of wheels, the chapter ends with a stellar flourish, describing the four 100kg gyroscopes, spinning 6,600 times a minute, whose angular momentum stabilises the International Space Station in Earth orbit. As frameworks for expressing the central ubiquity of engineering in our everyday life go, ‘Nuts and Bolts’ hits the nail on the head.
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Josephine Cochran, a socialite and mother of two, found that her maid kept chipping her dishes while doing the washing-up. Buch ist in einem sehr guten Zustand, Papier in sehr gutem Zustand, Text in deutscher und englischer Sprache. She has also presented numerous TV shows for the BBC , Channel 4 and Discovery, and hosts her own podcast, Building Stories.May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp.
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