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Backroom Boys
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Offers an account of how British boffins triumphed across the decades in creating everything from computer games to Martian landers. This book contains chapters on the Beagle II, Elite - the 80s computer game, the Blue Streak missile, Concorde, mobile phone technology and the Human Genome Project, among others.
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Backroom Boys, Francis Spufford
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- 2004
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- Title
- Backroom Boys
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Francis Spufford
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Released
- 2004
- Format
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 0571214975
- ISBN13
- 9780571214976
- Category
- Technology / Engineering
- Description
- Offers an account of how British boffins triumphed across the decades in creating everything from computer games to Martian landers. This book contains chapters on the Beagle II, Elite - the 80s computer game, the Blue Streak missile, Concorde, mobile phone technology and the Human Genome Project, among others.