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Our world has been transformed beyond recognition, particularly in the 20th century, and so were our lives and our aspirations. Throughout James May's Magnificent Machines, James May explores the iconic themes of the past century: flight, space travel, television, mechanized war, medicine, computers, electronic music, skyscrapers, electronic espionage, plus much more. But he also reveals the hidden story behind why some inventions like the zeppelin, the hovercraft, or the theremin struggled to make their mark. He examines the tipping points when technologies including the car or the internet became unstoppable and gets up close to the nuts and bolt of impressive inventions. Packed with surprising statistics and intriguing facts, this is actually the ideal book for anyone who wants to understand how stuff works and just why some stuff didn't make it.
