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    • Invention and Innovation

    • A Brief History of Hype and Failure
    • Written by: Vaclav Smil
    • Narrated by: Tim Fannon
    • Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 2023-07-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating

    • From the New York Times-bestselling author comes a new volume on the history of human ingenuity—and its attendant breakthroughs and busts....

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    • Tesla

    • Inventor of the Electrical Age
    • Written by: W. Bernard Carlson
    • Narrated by: Allan Robertson
    • Length: 16 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 2014-01-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • Nikola Tesla was a major contributor to the electrical revolution that transformed daily life at the turn of the 20th century....

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    • The Innovators

    • How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
    • Written by: Walter Isaacson
    • Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris
    • Length: 17 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 2014-10-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 102 ratings
    • Following his blockbuster biography of Steve Jobs, The Innovators is Walter Isaacson’s revealing story of the people who created the computer and the Internet....

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    • Invention

    • A Life of Learning Through Failure
    • Written by: James Dyson
    • Narrated by: James Dyson
    • Length: 11 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 2021-09-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings

    • Dyson has become a byword for high-performing products, technology, design, and invention. Now, James Dyson, the inventor and entrepreneur who made it all happen, tells his remarkable and inspirational story in Invention: A Life....

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    • Empires of Light

    • Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and the Race to Electrify the World
    • Written by: Jill Jonnes
    • Narrated by: Chris Sorensen
    • Length: 16 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 2017-01-31
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • In the final decades of the 19th century, three brilliant and visionary titans of America's Gilded Age battled as each vied to create a vast and powerful electrical empire....

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    • The Network

    • The Battle for the Airwaves and the Birth of the Communications Age
    • Written by: Scott Woolley
    • Narrated by: Stephen Hoye
    • Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 2016-04-26
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • The astonishing story of America's airwaves and the two friends - one a media mogul, the other a famous inventor - who made them available to us....

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    • Wonderworks

    • The 25 Most Powerful Inventions in the History of Literature
    • Written by: Angus Fletcher
    • Narrated by: Jacques Roy
    • Length: 15 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 2021-03-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings

    • Literature is a technology like any other. And the writers we revere - from Homer, Shakespeare, Austen, and others - each made a unique technical breakthrough that can be viewed as both a narrative and neuroscientific advancement....

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    • Starlight Detectives

    • How Astronomers, Inventors, and Eccentrics Discovered the Modern Universe
    • Written by: Alan Hirshfeld
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 13 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 2014-12-09
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • In 1929, Edwin Hubble announced the greatest discovery in the history of astronomy since Galileo first turned a telescope to the heavens....

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    • Tesla: Man Out of Time

    • Written by: Margaret Cheney
    • Narrated by: Arthur Morey, Cassandra Campbell
    • Length: 13 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 2014-11-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • From Tesla's childhood in Yugoslavia to his death in New York in the 1940s, Cheney paints a compelling human portrait and chronicles a lifetime of discoveries....

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    • How We Got to Now

    • Six Innovations That Made the Modern World
    • Written by: Steven Johnson
    • Narrated by: George Newbern
    • Length: 6 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 2014-09-30
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • How We Got to Now investigates the secret history behind the everyday objects of contemporary life....

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    • iWoz

    • How I Invented the Personal Computer and Had Fun Along the Way
    • Written by: Steve Wozniak, Gina Smith
    • Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
    • Length: 9 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 2006-12-01
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • The mastermind behind Apple sheds his low profile and steps forward to tell his story for the first time....

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    • Fifty Inventions That Shaped the Modern Economy

    • Written by: Tim Harford
    • Narrated by: Roger Davis
    • Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 2017-08-29
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • This audiobook paints an epic picture of change in an intimate way by telling the stories of the tools, people, and ideas that had far-reaching consequences for all of us....

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    • James May's 20th Century

    • Written by: James May, Phil Dolling
    • Narrated by: James May
    • Length: 4 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 2007-08-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • Longlisted for the Audiobook Download of the Year, 2007.
      How much should you pay for a return trip to the moon? How are Winnie the Pooh and the artificial heart related....

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    • Silicon

    • From the Invention of the Microprocessor to the New Science of Consciousness
    • Written by: Federico Faggin
    • Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
    • Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 2021-03-09
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating

    • The creation of the microprocessor launched the digital age. The key technology allowing unprecedented integration, and the design of the world’s first microprocessor, the Intel 4004, were the achievement of Federico Faggin....

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    • Inventing Bitcoin

    • The Technology Behind the First Truly Scarce and Decentralized Money Explained
    • Written by: Yan Pritzker
    • Narrated by: Guy Swann
    • Length: 3 hrs
    • Release date: 2020-04-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings

    • Bitcoin may well be the greatest invention of our time, and most people have no idea what it is or how it works. Walking through its invention, step by step, this short audiobook is critical before you invest. Learn why Bitcoin was invented and how it works....

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    • Dealers of Lightning

    • Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age
    • Written by: Michael Hiltzik
    • Narrated by: Forrest Sawyer
    • Length: 5 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 1999-12-16
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Dealers of Lightning is the riveting story of the legendary Xerox PARC....

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    • The Things We Make

    • The Unknown History of Invention from Cathedrals to Soda Cans
    • Written by: Bill Hammack
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
    • Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 2023-03-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 3 ratings

    • Discover the secret method used to build the world....

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    • ColdFusion Presents

    • New Thinking: From Einstein to Artificial Intelligence, the Science and Technology That Transformed Our World
    • Written by: Dagogo Altraide
    • Narrated by: Ron Butler
    • Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 2019-02-26
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 31 ratings

    • Dagogo Altraide of YouTube's ColdFusion breaks down the history of gamechanger breakthroughs in the world of science and technology that have shaped our modern world and will impact the future....

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    • Edison's Ghosts

    • The Untold Weirdness of History's Greatest Geniuses
    • Written by: Katie Spalding
    • Narrated by: Susie Riddell
    • Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 2023-05-16
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings

    • Overturn everything you knew about history’s greatest minds in this raucous and hilarious book, where it turns out there's a finer line between "genius" and "idiot" than we've previously known....

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