Nuts and Bolts: Seven Small Inventions That Changed the World (in a Big Way)

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Some of engineering’s mightiest achievements are small in scale, even hidden—and yet, without them, the complex machinery on which our modern world runs would not exist. Agrawal says Kwolek’s discovery was “all the more noteworthy because it took place in an industry that, at the time, was extremely male-dominated.

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Another of her subjects – string – helped in a similar way, although this was a technology we could entangle and wind to bind a shard of flint to an axe handle, or adapt into products as diverse as clothing and guitar strings. The chapter on springs pulls off the same deeply satisfying trick, showing step by step how the science behind the unfeasibly sophisticated Mongolian bow (bark, sinew, wood, bone, over a year of construction and drying time and a range half as far again as the English longbow) contributed to the design of architectural dampeners that reduce noise and vibration levels and make our cities compact, pleasant places to live. As she observes, even in today’s world where much of what goes on is tucked away in the black boxes of microelectronics, nails are everywhere. Roma is passionate about promoting engineering and technical careers to young people, particularly those from minoritized groups, and has won international awards for her technical prowess and for her advocacy for the profession, including the prestigious Royal Academy of Engineering's Rooke Award.

Seiten Buch ist in einem sehr guten Zustand, Papier in sehr gutem Zustand, Text in englischer und deutscher Sprache. Als Versandart wählen wir immer eine schnelle Option (in Deutschland Brief oder DHL-Paket, ins Ausland Warenpost oder DHL-Paket). 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.

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As frameworks for expressing the central ubiquity of engineering in our everyday life go, ‘Nuts and Bolts’ hits the nail on the head. This curiosity extended to cars, computers and coffee machines, leading her down a path not only to a successful career in engineering, but also towards a deep understanding of the evolution of these early innovations that would become fascinating chapters in a book about who we were, are and will be as humans. Take the story of Stephanie Kwolek, a chemistry major who in 1946 got a job at the chemicals company DuPont and invented poly-paraphenylene terephthalamide (Kevlar fibre to you). May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp.Roma has given talks to thousands at universities, schools and organisations around the world, including TEDx. I’d already assumed, in my bleak way, that the UK was one of the worst countries for just chucking electronic equipment into landfill. Roma Agrawal has a special skill of reawakening that part of us that simply wants to understand how the built world works, and to dream of creating our own machines. In Nuts and Bolts, award-winning Shard 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.