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Author : Steve Silverman
Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2001-05-14
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 0740714198
Presents strange-but-true stories about such topics as a headless chicken that lived eighteen months, Albert Einstein's designs for refrigerators, and how a Donald Duck cartoon saved a ship.
Author : Paul Sen
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2022-03-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781501181313
This entertaining, eye-opening account of how the laws of thermodynamics are essential to understanding the world today—from refrigeration and jet engines to calorie counting and global warming—is “a lesson in how to do popular science right” (Kirkus Reviews). Einstein’s Fridge tells the incredible epic story of the scientists who, over two centuries, harnessed the power of heat and ice and formulated a theory essential to comprehending our universe. “Although thermodynamics has been studied for hundreds of years…few nonscientists appreciate how its principles have shaped the modern world” (Scientific American). Thermodynamics—the branch of physics that deals with energy and entropy—governs everything from the behavior of living cells to the black hole at the center of our galaxy. Not only that, but thermodynamics explains why we must eat and breathe, how lights turn on, the limits of computing, and how the universe will end. The brilliant people who decoded its laws came from every branch of the sciences; they were engineers, physicists, chemists, biologists, cosmologists, and mathematicians. From French military engineer and physicist Sadi Carnot to Lord Kelvin, James Joule, Albert Einstein, Emmy Noether, Alan Turing, and Stephen Hawking, author Paul Sen introduces us to all of the players who passed the baton of scientific progress through time and across nations. Incredibly driven and idealistic, these brave pioneers performed groundbreaking work often in the face of torment and tragedy. Their discoveries helped create the modern world and transformed every branch of science, from biology to cosmology. “Elegantly written and engaging” (Financial Times), Einstein’s Fridge brings to life one of the most important scientific revolutions of all time and captures the thrill of discovery and the power of scientific progress to shape the course of history.
Author : Andrews McMeel Publishing
Publisher : Andrews McMeel Pub
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2002-02-01
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 0740724908
Author : Joshua Foer
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2011-03-03
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781101475973
“Highly entertaining.” —Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker “Funny, curious, erudite, and full of useful details about ancient techniques of training memory.” —The Boston Globe The blockbuster phenomenon that charts an amazing journey of the mind while revolutionizing our concept of memory An instant bestseller that is poised to become a classic, Moonwalking with Einstein recounts Joshua Foer's yearlong quest to improve his memory under the tutelage of top "mental athletes." He draws on cutting-edge research, a surprising cultural history of remembering, and venerable tricks of the mentalist's trade to transform our understanding of human memory. From the United States Memory Championship to deep within the author's own mind, this is an electrifying work of journalism that reminds us that, in every way that matters, we are the sum of our memories.
Author : Sam Kean
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780316381635
The Guardian's Best Science Book of 2017: the fascinating science and history of the air we breathe. It's invisible. It's ever-present. Without it, you would die in minutes. And it has an epic story to tell. In Caesar's Last Breath, New York Times bestselling author Sam Kean takes us on a journey through the periodic table, around the globe, and across time to tell the story of the air we breathe, which, it turns out, is also the story of earth and our existence on it. With every breath, you literally inhale the history of the world. On the ides of March, 44 BC, Julius Caesar died of stab wounds on the Senate floor, but the story of his last breath is still unfolding; in fact, you're probably inhaling some of it now. Of the sextillions of molecules entering or leaving your lungs at this moment, some might well bear traces of Cleopatra's perfumes, German mustard gas, particles exhaled by dinosaurs or emitted by atomic bombs, even remnants of stardust from the universe's creation. Tracing the origins and ingredients of our atmosphere, Kean reveals how the alchemy of air reshaped our continents, steered human progress, powered revolutions, and continues to influence everything we do. Along the way, we'll swim with radioactive pigs, witness the most important chemical reactions humans have discovered, and join the crowd at the Moulin Rouge for some of the crudest performance art of all time. Lively, witty, and filled with the astounding science of ordinary life, Caesar's Last Breath illuminates the science stories swirling around us every second.
Author : József Illy
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press+ORM
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2012-05-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781421405339
This unique biography of the famous theoretical physicist explores his work in the practical worlds of technology, engineering and experimental physics. Albert Einstein is known as the whacky genius behind the theory of relativity, but that’s just one facet of his contribution to modern science and human knowledge. As József Illy demonstrates in this book, Einstein had an eminently practical side as well. As a youth, Einstein was an inveterate tinkerer in the electrical supply factory owned by his father and uncle. His first paid job was as a patent examiner. He consulted on industrial patent cases and worked on technological innovations, most notably the gyrocompass. Later in life, Einstein contributed to many inventions, including refrigerators, microphones, and instruments for aviation. His published papers often provided ways to test his theories, and he also wrote explanations for common natural phenomena, such as the meandering of rivers. In these and other hands-on examples culled from the Einstein Papers, Illy demonstrates how Einstein enjoyed leaving the abstract world of theories to wrestle with the problems of everyday life. A Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Title
Author : Gino Segrè
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Cosmology
ISBN : 0140290877
Why do our bodies always stay at the same temperature of 98.6 degrees F whether we're in the Arctic or the Sahara? How do penguins keep warm? How do you measure the heat of the sun's core? What can ice layers tell us about the history of the Earth? Why did Einstein invent a household refrigerator - and how is it linked with the atomic bomb? Einstein's Refrigerator takes us on an enthralling, unique journey through our bodies, our planet and the furthest reaches of the universe, using temperature as a guide. It reveals how hot and cold are the key to life, and how they can solve the world's most intriguing puzzles: from the Big Bang and the extinction of the dinosaurs to the origins of humankind and the quest for absolute zero - and even what may lie on other planets . . .
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1091210950
Steve Silverman was looking for a way to add some spice to his high school lectures when he realized that weird and bizarre true-life stories would capture his students' attention. In fact, they worked so well that the science teacher then began posting his discoveries to his own Web site, which he dubbed Useless Information. Well-researched and clearly sourced, Silverman's unusual tidbits have gained a wide following.In Einstein's Refrigerator, Silverman collects more than 30 of the most fascinating stories he has gathered—tales of forgotten genius, great blunders, and incredible feats of survival, as well as answers to puzzling questions. Einstein's Refrigerator is a remarkable book with spellbinding stories. Whatever happened to the refrigerator Einstein helped invent? While it never became a commercial success, its underlying concepts became the basis for cooling nuclear breeder reactors.
Author : Steve Silverman
Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Curiosities and wonders
ISBN : 0740733400
Presents strange-but-true stories from history and science about such topics as the artificial heart invented by aviator Charles Lindbergh, dead whale disposal, the study of nose picking, and a man who makes instruments from burned wooden matchsticks.
Author : Jim Holt
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780374717841
From Jim Holt, the New York Times bestselling author of Why Does the World Exist?, comes an entertaining and accessible guide to the most profound scientific and mathematical ideas of recent centuries in When Einstein Walked with Gödel: Excursions to the Edge of Thought. Does time exist? What is infinity? Why do mirrors reverse left and right but not up and down? In this scintillating collection, Holt explores the human mind, the cosmos, and the thinkers who’ve tried to encompass the latter with the former. With his trademark clarity and humor, Holt probes the mysteries of quantum mechanics, the quest for the foundations of mathematics, and the nature of logic and truth. Along the way, he offers intimate biographical sketches of celebrated and neglected thinkers, from the physicist Emmy Noether to the computing pioneer Alan Turing and the discoverer of fractals, Benoit Mandelbrot. Holt offers a painless and playful introduction to many of our most beautiful but least understood ideas, from Einsteinian relativity to string theory, and also invites us to consider why the greatest logician of the twentieth century believed the U.S. Constitution contained a terrible contradiction—and whether the universe truly has a future.
Author : Sidney Harris
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Art
ISBN : 0813533864
Presents the cartoons of Sidney Harris in which he finds humor in the worlds of science and technology, covering topics such as genetic engineering, evolution, environmental pollution, and particle physics.
Author : Banesh Hoffmann
Publisher : Plunkett Lake Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
“Hoffmann does more than convey the emotional impact of Einstein’s science on Einstein. He tries to make the general reader see the problems that concerned Einstein and understand the kinds of theories he constructed to solve them... This calls for scientific popularization of a high order... Hoffmann [...] does it very effectively.” — Martin Klein and Robert Merton, The New York Times “... succeeds in catching some of Einstein’s wholeness, the genius and the human being, the scientist and the responsible citizen.” — Peter Bergmann, Physics Today “What a rewarding and civilizing book for anyone interested in physics, its history, and the look and smell of the whole era during which relativity and quantum physics established themselves! ... this is one of the few [biographies of Einstein] that gives an authentic view from close up” — Gerald Holton, The Physics Teacher “This book deserves to become a best-seller... I know of no other book on Einstein that gives so complete and well balanced a picture of that great man.” — Otto Robert Frisch “... it is the very product of [Einstein’s] brain that most clearly delineates the man, and to get that across, there is none better than Dr. Hoffmann, who can write so charmingly that even General Relativity sounds like a fun thing in its very profound simplicity...” — Isaac Asimov “Here is an excellent biography of Albert Einstein by a theoretical physicist with broad interests and a deep human understanding... Hoffmann builds a remarkably interesting and human picture of an extremely gifted man...” — Louis Green, Sky and Telescope
Author : Albert Einstein
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2000-11-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780691088860
Fifty-four love letters portray the caring relationship between Albert Einstein and his first wife by showing how Maric acted as the genius's intellectual confidant during his isolated years at Princeton.
Author : Phil Baines
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : UOM:39015061423672
Since the creation of the first Penguin paperbacks in 1935, their jackets have become a constantly evolving part of Britain's culture and design history. Looking back at seventy years of Penguin, Phil Baines charts the development of British publishing, book cover design and the role of artists in defining the Penguin look.
Author : Albert Einstein
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2024-04-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781804175736
Einstein's pioneering work helped shape the cultural landscape of the world today. Now in a digestible, pocket format for the modern reader. A new, popular edition with a clear introduction, Special & General Relativity by Albert Einstein contains his core paper, 'Relativity, The Special & The General Theory: A Popular Exposition', which established his reputation as one of the greatest thinkers of our (and perhaps any) age. Also included are two of the Princeton University lectures he gave to explain his findings in more detail, on 'The Meaning of Relativity', as well as the early paper which led to his famous equation E = mc2. The FLAME TREE Foundations series features core publications which together have shaped the cultural landscape of the modern world, with cutting-edge research distilled into pocket guides designed to be both accessible and informative.