Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: Penguin Books, Harmondswoth, 2007
ISBN 10: 0143006878 ISBN 13: 9780143006879
Anbieter: The Secret Bookshop, Tararua, Neuseeland
Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. This copy feels unread. The sweeping story of how two explosive scientific breakthroughs?dynamite and synthetic nitrates?reshaped the modern world. Beginning with Alfred Nobel's stabilisation of nitroglycerin into dynamite, Bown traces how this invention revolutionised mining, construction, and warfare, making possible both extraordinary feats of engineering and unprecedented destruction.