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  • Eureka: How Invention Happens by Weightman, Gavin
    Gavin Weightman

    Eureka: How Invention Happens

    This witty and inspiring book chronicles the long history of discovery and ingenuity which gave rise to a "eureka moment" when a dream of invention became a reality for the first time Tracing the long pre-history of five twentieth-century inventions which have transformed our...
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  • Signor Marconi's Magic Box by Weightman, Gavin
    Gavin Weightman

    Signor Marconi's Magic Box: The invention that sparked the radio revolution

    The intriguing story of how wireless was invented by Guglielmo Marconi - and how it amused Queen Victoria, saved the lives of the Titanic survivors, tracked down criminals and began the radio revolution. Wireless was the most fabulous invention of the 19th century: the...
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  • Signor Marconi's Magic Box: The Most Remarkable Invention of the 19th Century by Weightman, Gavin
    Gavin Weightman

    Signor Marconi's Magic Box: The Most Remarkable Invention of the 19th Century

    The world at the turn of the twentieth century was in the throes of "Marconi-mania"-brought on by an incredible invention that no one could quite explain, and by a dapper and eccentric figure (who would one day win the newly minted Nobel Prize) at...
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  • The Case of the 5 Virgin: The True Story of a Victorian Scandal by Weightman, Gavin
    Gavin Weightman

    The Case of the 5 Virgin: The True Story of a Victorian Scandal

    In 1885 the editor of the Pall Mall Gazette published an account of a girl of thirteen being sold by her mother to a brothel, where her virginity would be highly prized. The editor was W T Stead, and his audacious scoop was telegraphed...
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  • The Frozen Water Trade by Weightman, Gavin
    Gavin Weightman

    The Frozen Water Trade

    The story of the 19th-century ice trade, in which ice from the lakes of New England - valued for its incredible purity - revolutionised domestic life around the world.In the days before artificial refrigeration, it was thought impossible to transport ice for long distances....
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  • The Frozen Water Trade: A True Story by Weightman, Gavin
    Gavin Weightman

    The Frozen Water Trade: A True Story

    Now in paperback, the fascinating story of America's vast natural ice trade which revolutionized the 19th century On February 13, 1806, the brig Favorite left Boston harbor bound for the Caribbean island of Martinique with a cargo that few imagined would survive the month-long...
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  • The Industrial Revolutionaries: The Making of the Modern World 1776-1914 by Weightman, Gavin
    Gavin Weightman

    The Industrial Revolutionaries: The Making of the Modern World 1776-1914

    Gavin Weightman's sweeping history of the industrial revolution shows how, in less than one hundred and fifty years, an unlikely band of scientists, spies, entrepreneurs, and political refugees took a world made of wood and powered by animals, wind, and water, and made it...
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