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Bezig met laden... Einstein's Refrigerator: And Other Stories from the Flip Side of History (editie 2011)door Steve Silverman
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. I'm a big fan of Silverman's podcast, so I thought I'd buy the book. The writing style is very corny at times, and I'd read some of the stories in other historical works already, but Silverman does a great job of researching historical weirdness and he comes across as very likable. This book made me smile, and I like it when history does that. ( ) This is not great literature, but it is full of engaging short pieces on interesting items from history, mainly with a technological or scientific aspect. Some of the items were known to me, though the author may have fleshed them out with more detail; some were brand knew to me; and a few were things that I had heard of but was not sure if they were just urban legends.As I alluded to above, the writing was generally pedestrian but serviceable: it's the content that will hook you, if it does. If nothing else, it's full of great conversation-starters. Probably my one main gripe is that each piece ends with the same corny line, which gets really tiresome after awhile. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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HTML: Steve Silverman was looking for a way to add some spice to his high school lectures when he realized that weird and bizarre true-life stories would capture his students' attention. In fact, they worked so well that the science teacher then began posting his discoveries to his own Web site, which he dubbed Useless Information. Well-researched and clearly sourced, Silverman's unusual tidbits have gained a wide following. In Einstein's Refrigerator, Silverman collects more than 30 of the most fascinating stories he has gatheredâ??tales of forgotten genius, great blunders, and incredible feats of survival, as well as answers to puzzling questions. Einstein's Refrigerator is a remarkable book with spellbinding stories. Whatever happened to the refrigerator Einstein helped invent? While it never became a commercial success, its underlying concepts became the basis for cooling nuclear breeder reactors. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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