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Nuts and Bolts
- How Tiny Inventions Make Our World Work
- Narrated by: Roma Agrawal
- Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
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Summary
An ambitious but accessible book exploring how seven simple engineering inventions from the pump to the spring have shaped our world, by the engineer who designed the Shard.
Smartphones, skyscrapers, spacecraft. Modern technology seems mind-bogglingly complex. But beneath the surface, it can be beautifully simple.
In Nuts and Bolts, award-winning engineer and broadcaster Roma Agrawal deconstructs our most complex feats of engineering into seven fundamental inventions: the nail, spring, wheel, lens, magnet, string and pump. Each of these objects is itself a wonder of design, the result of many iterations and refinements. Together, they have enabled humanity to see the invisible, build the spectacular, communicate across vast distances, and even escape our planet.
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. The nuts and bolts that make up our world may be tiny, and are often hidden, but they've changed our lives in dramatic ways.
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- IanW
- 20-03-24
Lots of virtue signalling
Disappointed in this book. The subject matter seemed thinner than it might have been and not always technically convincing. I suspect that examples were sometimes chosen more as a vehicle for displays of virtue and political correctness than for best support of the subject. After listening to some ungracious and rather hypocritical political signalling I decided to call a halt.
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- AKA
- 30-04-23
Educational
I found this work to be thought-provoking and surprising. The stories illustrating each invention were narrated with such delight by the author.
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