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The Man Who Invented the Computer
9780385533720

Subtitle: "The Public Career and Consequences of Raphael Lamkin." DjVu derived from (and reformatted to stand

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From one of our most acclaimed novelists, a David-and-Goliath biography for the digital age. One night in the late 1930s

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Maiman was a graudate of the University of Colorado, which awarded him a B.S. in engineering physics in 1949. Later, he

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Everyone knows the name Buffalo Bill, but few these days know what he did or, in some cases, didn't do. Was he a Po

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*Includes pictures *Includes a bibliography for further reading “God made men, but Sam Colt made them equal.” – A commo

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Eugène Boban began life in humble circumstances in Paris, traveled to the California Gold Rush, and later became a recog

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The automobile was perfected in 1829 and ran well on English roads. Who prevented its development? Was it the railway en

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Longlisted for the Samuel Johnson prize for non-fiction; both conservative and subversive, Burke's beliefs have nev

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In the chaos of early-1990s Russia, the wife and stepdaughter of a paralyzed veteran conceal the Soviet Union’s collapse

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