Instant Engineering by Joel Levy - ISBN: 9781787393233
Paperback
Engineering explained instantly: Key figures, theories, and discoveries in bite-sized chunks.

Instant Engineering

Key Thinkers, Theories, Discoveries and Inventions Explained on a Single Page

$35.97

  • Paperback

    176 pages

  • Release Date

    5 January 2021

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Summary

Instant Engineering pulls together all the pivotal engineering theories and discoveries into one concise volume. Each page contains a discrete ‘cheat sheet’, which tells you the most important facts in bite-sized chunks, meaning you can become an expert in an instant.

From Archimedes to Elon Musk, from screws and pulleys to the steam engine, and from the canal boat to the space rocket, every key figure, theory or term is expressed in succinct and lively text and graphics.

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781787393233
ISBN-10:1787393232
Author:Joel Levy
Publisher:Headline Publishing Group
Imprint:Welbeck
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:176
Release Date:5 January 2021
Weight:500g
Dimensions:236mm x 186mm x 18mm
About The Author

Joel Levy

Joel Levy is a writer and journalist specialising in science, nature and technology for younger audiences. His writing explores both mainstream science and weird technology, from chemistry and physics to death-rays and biomimetic robots. After taking degrees in molecular biology and psychology at Warwick and Edinburgh, he has gone on to write books including Really Useful, the science and history of everyday technology; Poison: A Social History, on the science and lore of poisons; Newton’s Notebooks, on the life and discoveries of Isaac Newton; Phobiapedia, an encyclopaedia of the things that scare us most; and A Bee in a Cathedral, exploring analogies and thought experiments in science, nature and technology.

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