How much should you pay for a return trip to the moon? How are Winnie the Pooh
and the artificial heart related? Did teenagers exist before 1950? If not, who
invented them? James May's 20th Century answers all these questions and more.

In this exclusive download released to tie-in with the BBC TV series, James May
explores the iconic themes of the century: flight, space travel, television,
mechanised war, medicine, computers, electronic music, skyscrapers, electronic
espionage, and much more.

But he also reveals the hidden story behind why some inventions like the Zeppelin,
the motorcycle side car, or the Theremin struggled to make their mark. He examines
the tipping points i?? when technologies such as the car or the internet became
unstoppable i?? and gets up close by looking at the nuts and bolt of remarkable
inventions.

Packed with surprising statistics and intriguing facts, this is the ideal book
for anyone who wants to know how stuff works and why some stuff didn't make it.

Download File Size:238.68 MB

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