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author: Blaffetuur
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: October 15, 2015, 07:24:13 pm
content: I'm looking for some interesting books to read, what are some books worth reading? Post anything that you are reading or remember thats worth a read.

author: tggzzz
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 15, 2015, 07:41:29 pm
content: https://entertaininghacks.wordpress.com/library-2/

author: Augustus
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: October 15, 2015, 08:24:46 pm
content: Anything?https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revelation_SpaceOne of the beste SciFi novels I've ever read

author: ErikTheNorwegian
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: October 15, 2015, 08:29:17 pm
content: https://www.eevblog.com/forum/chat/what-books-are-burning-your-retina-from-your-kindle/msg80116/#msg80116

author: zapta
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 15, 2015, 08:51:32 pm
content: The Smartest Investment Book You Will Ever Read. About $10 on amazon.

author: free_electron
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 15, 2015, 08:52:34 pm
content: THHGTTGThe entire Discworld series

author: Deathwish
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: October 15, 2015, 09:01:36 pm
content: *cough * Playboy

author: Tomorokoshi
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 15, 2015, 10:15:06 pm
content: Quote from: Deathwish on October 15, 2015, 09:01:36 pmI've heard the stories are very... revealing.

author: Tomorokoshi
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 15, 2015, 10:16:42 pm
content: "The Chemical History of a Candle" by Michael Faraday.

author: Falcon69
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 16, 2015, 01:29:25 am
content: herard on the news a couple days ago. Playboy has announced they will not be displaying nude women in their magazine anymore. Now when you say you only buy it for the articles, it will be the truth.

author: crispy_tofu
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 16, 2015, 02:56:52 am
content: Quote from: Falcon69 on October 16, 2015, 01:29:25 amhttp://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-10-13/playboy-to-stop-publishing-nude-photos/6851352

author: Deathwish
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: October 16, 2015, 02:59:30 am
content: Guess i best not think of going into any hooters either then, might find they all look like my granny !

author: ErikTheNorwegian
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: October 16, 2015, 08:00:37 am
content: TOPIC is reading, not LOOKING... hemmm!

author: JoeN
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: October 16, 2015, 08:08:56 am
content: Quote from: Tomorokoshi on October 15, 2015, 10:16:42 pmHa. I read a book with a similar title to that about 2 years ago. "The Shocking History of Phosphorus: A Biography of the Devil's Element" It was pretty good.

author: GNU_Ninja
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: October 16, 2015, 08:30:38 am
content: Quote from: Tomorokoshi on October 15, 2015, 10:16:42 pmhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/14474

author: johnwa
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: October 16, 2015, 08:37:15 am
content: Quote from: Tomorokoshi on October 15, 2015, 10:16:42 pmThis. And, on a somewhat similar theme:"On The Economy of Machinery and Manufacture" by Charles Babbage (also on PG)"Surely You're Joking Mr Feynman" by Richard Feynman

author: Deathwish
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: October 16, 2015, 09:41:44 am
content: Quote from: ErikTheNorwegian on October 16, 2015, 08:00:37 amYes and I can read the dirty stories so Nee naaw

author: nfmax
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 16, 2015, 09:46:26 am
content: The Maxwellianshttp://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/?GCOI=80140100647840is a fascinating history of the men who brought Maxwell's new electromagnetic theory into the mainstream of physics and engineering.

author: Deathwish
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: October 16, 2015, 09:48:12 am
content: being serious, i did read about how they electrified the london underground, that was quite interesting as well as looking at how many old stations got ripped down or just plain lost

author: ErikTheNorwegian
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: October 16, 2015, 03:25:36 pm
content: Empires of Light: Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and the Race to Electrify the WorldIn the final decades of the nineteenth century, three brilliant and visionary titans of America’s Gilded Age—Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla, and George Westinghouse—battled bitterly as each vied to create a vast and powerful electrical empire. In Empires of Light, historian Jill Jonnes portrays this extraordinary trio and their riveting and ruthless world of cutting-edge science, invention, intrigue, money, death, and hard-eyed Wall Street millionaires. At the heart of the story are Thomas Alva Edison, the nation’s most famous and folksy inventor, creator of the incandescent light bulb and mastermind of the world’s first direct current electrical light networks; the Serbian wizard of invention Nikola Tesla, elegant, highly eccentric, a dreamer who revolutionized the generation and delivery of electricity; and the charismatic George Westinghouse, Pittsburgh inventor and tough corporate entrepreneur, an industrial idealist who in the era of gaslight imagined a world powered by cheap and plentiful electricity and worked heart and soul to create it.Edison struggled to introduce his radical new direct current (DC) technology into the hurly-burly of New York City as Tesla and Westinghouse challenged his dominance with their alternating current (AC), thus setting the stage for one of the eeriest feuds in American corporate history, the War of the Electric Currents. The battlegrounds: Wall Street, the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair, Niagara Falls, and, finally, the death chamber—Jonnes takes us on the tense walk down a prison hallway and into the sunlit room where William Kemmler, convicted ax murderer, became the first man to die in the electric chair.Empires of Light is the gripping history of electricity, the “mysterious fluid,” and how the fateful collision of Edison, Tesla, and Westinghouse left the world utterly transformed.http://www.amazon.com/Empires-Light-Edison-Westinghouse-Electrify/dp/0375758844/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1445009014&sr=8-3&keywords=books+electric+edison

author: ErikTheNorwegian
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: October 16, 2015, 03:30:31 pm
content: Eiffel's Tower: The Thrilling Story Behind Paris's Beloved Monument and the Extraordinary World's Fair That Introduced ItThe story of the world-famous monument and the extraordinary world's fair that introduced itIn this first general history of the Eiffel Tower in English, Jill Jonnes-acclaimed author of Conquering Gotham-offers an eye- opening look not only at the construction of one of the modern world's most iconic structures, but also the epochal event that surrounded its arrival as a wonder of the world. In this marvelously entertaining portrait of Belle Époque France, fear and loathing over Eiffel's brash design share the spotlight with the celebrities that made the 1889 Exposition Universelle an event to remember-including Buffalo Bill and his sharpshooter Annie Oakley, Thomas Edison, and artists Whistler, Gauguin, and van Gogh. Eiffel's Tower is a richly textured portrait of an era at the dawn of modernity, reveling in the limitless promise of the futurehttp://www.amazon.com/Eiffels-Tower-Thrilling-Extraordinary-Introduced/dp/0143117297/ref=pd_sim_14_2?ie=UTF8&refRID=01RJCCD2X88AK1SNM2JD&dpID=41bhdGRr-XL&dpSrc=sims&preST=_AC_UL160_SR104%2C160_THe pople of Paris did think that the Tower of metal would be magnetic, and that it would ripp out all the nails of all the houses so Paris would be destroid..

author: ErikTheNorwegian
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: October 16, 2015, 03:59:40 pm
content: The Wizard of Menlo Park: How Thomas Alva Edison Invented the Modern WorldThomas Edison’s greatest invention?His own fame.Starting with the first public demonstrations of the phonograph in 1878 and extending through the development of incandescent light and the first motion-picture cameras, Thomas Edison’s name became emblematic of all the wonder and promise of the emerging age of technological marvels. But this critical biography of the man who is arguably the most famous of all Americans provides a fuller view of Edison’s life and times–revealing not only how he worked, but how he managed his own fame, becoming the first great celebrity of the modern age.http://www.amazon.com/The-Wizard-Menlo-Park-Invented/dp/1400047633/ref=pd_sim_14_12?ie=UTF8&refRID=1NFSH4CRV85NWJH6CSYS

author: Blaffetuur
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: October 16, 2015, 04:47:48 pm
content: Quote from: ErikTheNorwegian on October 15, 2015, 08:29:17 pmDidn't knew there existed a similar topic alreadyThanks for the link

author: TerraHertz
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 16, 2015, 10:57:41 pm
content: The Last Lone Inventor - A tale of genius, deceit & the birth of television. By Evan I Schwartz.The life and work of Philo T Farnsworth.Very interesting book. My only complaint would be that the author gives way too much slack to that lying, thieving bastard Sarnoff, perhaps due to their mutual ethnicity.Sadly, it almost totally omits mention of Farnsworth's work on nuclear fusion in his last years.

author: mtdoc
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 17, 2015, 03:48:54 am
content: A Short History of Progress - be Ronald Wright

author: StarMan5
author_rank: Newbie
timestamp: June 13, 2020, 09:43:44 pm
content: I'm looking to, if you read some good light novels, tell me. Moreover, a good websites where I could find them in one place, will be awesome.Status update! Guuys, I have found already a lot of light novels in one place. There are so many, that I can't decide what to read first. I'm gonna read those light novel updates firstly. I hope they won't dissappoint me! There are a lot of kinds of light novels: adventure, romantic...I hate romanticmy girlfriend is judging me for not being a little bit romanticyou know, flowers and all kind of shit..I just love her, but those flowers do not reveal my deep feelings... Soread light novelbecause you will fall in love

author: Larryc001
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: June 13, 2020, 11:35:16 pm
content: These are probably old to most of you, but were new to me and very informative and enjoyable:Bill and Dave -story of H-PI am C3PO - no explanation neededDec is dead, long live Dec - worked for them in the seventies so I got a lot out of this.The Soul Of A New Machine - of course. On line.Desert Solitaire a great story of the Arches a wonderful place.So many books, so little time.

author: coppercone2
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 13, 2020, 11:45:43 pm
content: new posts since last visit

author: rhb
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 14, 2020, 12:02:30 am
content: "Planar Microwave Engineering" by Thomas H. Lee.A good sub title would be "The Joy of RF""Tuxedo Park : A Wall Street Tycoon and the Secret Palace of Science That Changed the Course of World War II " by Jennet ConantAside from setting up the MIT Radiation Lab, Loomis also was very active in the construction of the cyclotron at Berkeley during WW II. Luis Alvarez had casually commented that if they couldn't get copper for the coils they could use aluminum and was blown away when Loomis told him they couldn't do it because the larger conductors limited how strong the field would be. Loomis had sat down and done all the field strength calculations. It led Alvarez to comment that physicists care about factors of 2 and larger. Business men care about the difference between 5 & 10%.Have Fun!Reg

author: rdl
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 14, 2020, 10:22:07 pm
content: I guess I missed this thread five years ago. I will add this:https://www.amazon.com/Angle-Attack-Harrison-Storms-Race/dp/039332513XMostly about Harrison Storms, but one of the best books I've read concerning the Apollo program.