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Andrew Nahum

    Andrew Nahum is a Principal Curator of Technology and Engineering at London's Science Museum. His work delves into the history of technology, aviation, and transport, examining pivotal inventions and their creators. Through his books and exhibitions, he makes complex technological histories accessible to both readers and museum visitors. His approach combines detailed historical research with compelling narratives about engineers and their innovations.

    La Conquête du ciel
    Приключения колеса
    Frank Whittle
    Flying Machine
    • Frank Whittle

      • 192 pages
      • 7 hours of reading

      The story of the jet engine has everything: genius, tragedy, heroism, a world war, the individual vs. the state, and an idea that would change the world. Frank Whittle always maintained that he was held back by a lack of government support. At the very moment in 1943 when his invention was unveiled to the world, his company, Power Jets, was forcibly nationalised. Yet, as Andrew Nahum shows in this brilliantly researched book, Whittle's innovative brilliance, charm and charisma helped him recruit major support from the British government and the RAF, who gave him the green light 'to build a jet engine' at a time when to do so made little sense. Frank Whittle: Invention of the Jet is a story of what pushing technology to its limits can achieve and the effect that such achievement can have on those involved. 'Read it and] learn more about what really happened.' Guardian

      Frank Whittle2017
      3.0
    • Приключения колеса

      Иллюстрированная энциклопедия для детей

      История дорожного транспорта и транспортных средств с самых ранних времен до настоящего времени, которая включает хронологическую ленту, проходящую от страницы к странице.

      Приключения колеса1995
    • La Conquête du ciel

      • 64 pages
      • 3 hours of reading

      S'envoler, le plus vieux rêve de l'humanité. Depuis les premiers aérostiers, ces merveilleux fous volants ont lancé dans le ciel une route qui fait aujourd'hui le tour de la Terre. Apprendre au plus grand nombre un savoir menacé de se perdre en le fixant par l'image : ce fut, il y a deux siècles, le pari des Encyclopédistes. Aujourd'hui, la photographie permet d'aller plus loin dans l'indispensable transfert des connaissances. Mais il faut que l'objectif soit vraiment objectif et que la qualité de la reproduction soit à la hauteur de cette ambition pour que l'attrait esthétique devienne en même temps une pédagogie.

      La Conquête du ciel1990
    • Be an eyewitness to how man first realised his dream of taking flight and the remarkable and stunningly different machines that have whisked him up, up, and away. Discoverwhy a rotary engine is designed to rotate when in use Seea hot air balloon being inflated Find outabout the construction of a World War I fighter plane

      Flying Machine1990
      4.0