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Alchemy and Life: How People and Materials Transformed

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Alchemy and Life: How People and Materials Transformed
14.99 €
Scientist and science popularizer Ainissa Ramirez cites eight inventions--the clock, steel rails, copper communication cables, photographic film, the electric light bulb, the hard disk, laboratory glassware, and silicon chips--and shows how they have influenced the human experience. Ramirez tells of the woman who "sold time," the inventor who inspired Edison, and the enthusiastic entrepreneur whose discovery paved the way for the creation of the computer. Among other things, she describes how the quest for precision predetermined our sleeping patterns, how railroads helped commercialize Christmas, how the forced brevity of telegrams affected Hemingway's literary style, and how a young chemist exposed the practice of using polaroid cameras for passporting and racial segregation under apartheid South Africa.
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