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Автор: James J.Asher
Год: 2010
Издание:
Книга по Требованию
Страниц: 164
ISBN: 9781560185253
A fresh look at science, and technology in 25 exciting true stories such as: • How two brothers, who own a bicycle shop in Ohio, build a bicycle that can fly. • How penicillin is discovered when wind blows in some dirt from an open window. • How an American student discovers the secret of DNA, and becomes the youngest person ever to win a Nobel Prize. His discovery transformed everyone’s life in the 21st Century; yet amazingly, Harvard University tried to ban his personal story from publication. • How a junior member of an Italian university discovers a simple equation that predicts the distance objects fall in space in seconds. A stunning discovery made even more remarkable when all he had to work with was a crude measure of time: water dripping from a bottle. • How a fifteen year old boy discovers patterns of dots that enable blind people to read and write. • How an uneducated janitor in London discovers simple patterns of electricity to enable giant turbines to move millions...
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