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    • The Geniuses, Visionaries, Egomaniacs, and Scoundrels Who Built Our Electronic Age
    • By: Derek Cheung, Eric Brach
    • Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
    • Length: 14 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 01-03-20
    • Language: English
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    • Conquering the Electron offers listeners a true and engaging history of the world of electronics, beginning with the discoveries of static electricity and magnetism and ending with the creation of the smartphone and the iPad....

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    • A Brief History of Hype and Failure
    • By: Vaclav Smil
    • Narrated by: Tim Fannon
    • Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 11-07-23
    • Language: English
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    • From the New York Times-bestselling author comes a new volume on the history of human ingenuity—and its attendant breakthroughs and busts....

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    • Catapults, Pulsejets, Rail Guns, Flamethrowers, Tesla Coils, Air Cannons, and the Garage Warriors Who Love Them
    • By: William Gurstelle
    • Narrated by: Marc Cashman
    • Length: 7 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 09-02-06
    • Language: English
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    • The technology underground is a thriving, humming subculture of inventors and scientific envelope-pushers....

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    • Inventor of the Electrical Age
    • By: W. Bernard Carlson
    • Narrated by: Allan Robertson
    • Length: 16 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 16-01-14
    • Language: English
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    • Nikola Tesla was a major contributor to the electrical revolution that transformed daily life at the turn of the 20th century....

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    • How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
    • By: Walter Isaacson
    • Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris
    • Length: 17 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 07-10-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 726 ratings
    • Following his blockbuster biography of Steve Jobs, The Innovators is Walter Isaacson’s revealing story of the people who created the computer and the Internet....

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    • How Humans and Matter Transformed One Another
    • By: Ainissa Ramirez
    • Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
    • Length: 7 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 07-04-20
    • Language: English
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    • In The Alchemy of Us, scientist and science writer Ainissa Ramirez examines eight inventions - clocks, steel rails, copper communication cables, photographic film, light bulbs, hard disks, scientific labware, and silicon chips - and reveals how they shaped the human experience....

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    • By: James May, Phil Dolling
    • Narrated by: James May
    • Length: 4 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 20-08-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 209 ratings
    • Longlisted for the Audiobook Download of the Year, 2007.
      How much should you pay for a return trip to the moon? How are Winnie the Pooh and the artificial heart related....

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    • Biographies of Albert Einstein, Nikola Tesla, and Thomas Edison
    • By: Anthony Moore
    • Narrated by: Zachary Zaba
    • Length: 4 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 16-04-20
    • Language: English
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    • Discover the incredible lives of three geniuses who changed the world. Throughout history, countless inventors and thinkers have left huge impacts on the way we live....

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    • By: Iwan Rhys Morus
    • Narrated by: Jeff Harding
    • Length: 6 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 03-10-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Nikola Tesla was a bundle of contradictions - a consummate showman and a private recluse; a man of science addicted to self-promotion; a prolific inventor of technologies that made other people’s fortunes....

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    • How Astronomers, Inventors, and Eccentrics Discovered the Modern Universe
    • By: Alan Hirshfeld
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 13 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 09-12-14
    • Language: English
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    • In 1929, Edwin Hubble announced the greatest discovery in the history of astronomy since Galileo first turned a telescope to the heavens....

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    • By: Adam Fisher
    • Narrated by: Pete Larkin
    • Length: 18 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 10-07-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 37 ratings
    • Drawing on over 200 in-depth interviews, Valley of Genius takes listeners from the dawn of the personal computer and the Internet, through the heyday of the web, up to the very moment when our current technological reality was invented....

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    • The Natural History of Innovation
    • By: Steven Johnson
    • Narrated by: Eric Singer
    • Length: 7 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 05-10-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 73 ratings
    • What sparks the flash of brilliance? One of our most innovative, popular thinkers takes on - in exhilarating style - one of our key questions....

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    • The MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series
    • By: Paul E. Ceruzzi
    • Narrated by: Tim Andres Pabon
    • Length: 3 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 30-10-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • The history of computing could be told as the story of hardware and software or the story of the Internet or the story of "smart" handheld devices....

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