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BACKROOM BOYS
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| By: |
Francis Spufford |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£12.99 |
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£9.48 |
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£3.51 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0571214975 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780571214976 |
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Currently 3 available |
| Publisher: |
FABER & FABER |
| Pub. date: |
2 September, 2004 |
| Pages: |
272 |
| 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. |
| Synopsis: |
A rapturous history of British engineering, a vivid love-letter to quiet men in pullovers, Backroom Boys tells the story of how this country lost its industrial tradition and got back something else. 'A wonderful accomplishment - Backroom Boys sharply evokes a lost world of Dan Dare, Look and Learn and Meccano, and goes on to show us how that world was never lost: that it is, in fact, the secret history of today.' Ken MacLeod 'Unreservedly marvellous ...Francis Spufford is the Tom Wolfe of technology journalism.' Focus 'Provides start-to-finish enjoyment ...[Spufford] can make the heart leap simply by detailing what engineers do with mild steel or carbon fibre.' Sunday Times 'I don't want to pretend that Backroom Boys is perfect; It's just as near to it as makes no difference.' Daily Telegraph 'The man writes like a dream - informed, fresh, racy prose ...You wouldn't think that a book describing the fall and rise of British technologies since 1945 could be unputdownable, but Spufford shows it can be done.' Guardian |
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UK |
| Imprint: |
Faber & Faber |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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