Tracing the surprising journeys of each invention through the millennia, Roma reveals how handmade Roman nails led to modern skyscrapers, how the potter's wheel enabled space exploration, and how humble lenses helped her conceive a child against the odds. Well, she says, everything we made was fashioned out of a single piece of engineering material. A toppled tree trunk spanning a stream was our bridge, while the cave was our home. The nail, along with its derivatives – such as the rivet, screw and bolt – meant that we could expand our horizons by joining things together. 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.

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printing. Condition: Near Fine in stiff wraps. Illus by Robert Harrison. (illustrator). First Edition. ISBN: 0897322630 First Edition. Illus by Robert Harrison. Near Fine in stiff wraps. ISBN: 0897322630. Forgotten the title or the author of a book? Our BookSleuth is specially designed for you. Visit BookSleuthCreating Poetry: Nuts and Bolts Instruction to Get Beginners Started and Comfortable with Using Terms, Forms and Different Styles in Their Poetry 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. The nuts and bolts that make up our world may be tiny, and are often hidden, but they've changed our lives in dramatic ways. Agrawal’s detours into politics – the plight of women in STEM, the use of male physical norms in product design – are less happy. They would hardly raise an eyebrow, had she only given them the space they deserved. As it is, she invites the reader to genuflect before some highly dubious ex cathedra statements. Staplebound) Very good plus. 49pp. Illustrations, photographs, bibliography. The covers lightly rubbed. Parallel text in German and English. Locale: Germany. (Weapons, Armored Fighting Vehicles--Germany, Military, Pak 40--Armored Fighting Vehicle--Germany, World War 2).

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Roma Agrawal is an engineer, author and presenter who is best known for working on the design of The Shard, Western Europe's tallest tower. She studied engineering atImperial College London and physics at the University of Oxford. Roma has given talks to thousands at universities, schools and organisations around the world, including TEDx. Condition: Very Good. Very Good condition. Nuts & Bolts., Vol. 02. (Military History, Tanks, Wespe) A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included. machine forging-a treatise on bolt,nut and rivet forging and the application of forging machines to forming,welding and upsetting operations on machine parts (a first printing)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. Each of these objects is itself a wonder of design, the result of many iterations and refinements. Together, they have enabled humanity to see the invisible, build the spectacular, communicate across vast distances, and even escape our planet.