Questa serie approfondisce la ricca storia dell'ingegno umano e del progresso tecnologico da una vasta gamma di prospettive. Svela le storie dietro gli inventori e le innovazioni che hanno plasmato il nostro mondo. Ogni volume incoraggia i lettori a riflettere criticamente sul processo inventivo e sul suo impatto sociale. La collana mira ad ampliare la comprensione pubblica dello slancio verso la creazione e il miglioramento.
The career of computer visionary Grace Murray Hopper, whose innovative work in programming laid the foundations for the user-friendliness of today's personal computers that sparked the information age.
"Gillespie maps the evolution of the daguerreotype, as medium and as profession, from its introduction to the ascendancy of the "American process," tracing its relationship to other fields and the professionalization of those fields. She does so by recounting the activities of a series of American daguerreotypists, including fine artists, scientists, and mechanical tinkerers. She describes, for example, experiments undertaken by Samuel F. B. Morse as he made the transition from artist to inventor; how artists made use of the daguerreotype, both borrowing conventions from fine art and establishing new ones for a new medium; the use of the daguerreotype in various sciences, particularly astronomy; and technological innovators who drew on their work in the mechanical arts. "--Publisher's website
The first American woman to walk in space recounts her experience as part of the team that launched, rescued, repaired, and maintained the Hubble Space Telescope