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Spaceflight
- A Concise History
- By: Michael J. Neufeld
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 4 hrs and 50 mins
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Spaceflight is one of the greatest human achievements of the 20th century. The Soviets launched Sputnik, the first satellite, in 1957; less than 12 years later, the American Apollo astronauts landed on the moon....
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Great book
- By KH on 07-17-23
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81. Spaceflight
- A Concise History
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 4 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 04-02-19
- Language: English
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Before the Refrigerator
- How We Used to Get Ice (How Things Worked)
- By: Jonathan Rees
- Narrated by: Gary L Willprecht
- Length: 4 hrs and 44 mins
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During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Americans depended upon ice to stay cool and to keep their perishable foods fresh. Jonathan Rees tells the fascinating story of how people got ice before mechanical refrigeration came to the household.
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82. Before the Refrigerator
- How We Used to Get Ice (How Things Worked)
- Narrated by: Gary L Willprecht
- Series: How Things Worked, Book 9
- Length: 4 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 02-21-24
- Language: English
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The Logician and the Engineer
- By: Paul J. Nahin
- Narrated by: Allan Robertson
- Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
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Boolean algebra, also called Boolean logic, is at the heart of the electronic circuitry in everything we use - from our computers and cars, to our kitchen gadgets and home appliances....
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Boolean Algebra
- By Jean on 12-14-12
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83. The Logician and the Engineer
- Narrated by: Allan Robertson
- Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 10-15-12
- Language: English
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Crossed Wires
- The Conflicted History of US Telecommunications, from the Post Office to the Internet
- By: Dan Schiller
- Narrated by: Christopher Douyard
- Length: 32 hrs and 19 mins
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Dan Schiller, who has conducted archival research on United States telecommunications for more than forty years, recovers the extraordinary social history of the major network systems of the United States...
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84. Crossed Wires
- The Conflicted History of US Telecommunications, from the Post Office to the Internet
- Narrated by: Christopher Douyard
- Length: 32 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 05-23-23
- Language: English
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The Bleeding Edge
- My Six Decades at the Forefront of the Tech Revolution (From Scott McNealy to Steve Jobs to Steve Case to Steve Ballmer and Other Titans of Technology and Media)
- By: Bill Raduchel
- Narrated by: Alex Freeman
- Length: 5 hrs and 55 mins
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Packed with never-before-heard stories and timeless wisdom on the art of computer science, the business of technology, and the durable power of relationships, The Bleeding Edge provides a rare history of how and why the internet looks and feels the way it does today....
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85. The Bleeding Edge
- My Six Decades at the Forefront of the Tech Revolution (From Scott McNealy to Steve Jobs to Steve Case to Steve Ballmer and Other Titans of Technology and Media)
- Narrated by: Alex Freeman
- Length: 5 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 12-05-23
- Language: English
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Plutopia
- Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters
- By: Kate Brown
- Narrated by: Susan Ericksen
- Length: 18 hrs and 10 mins
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Kate Brown draws on official records and dozens of interviews to tell the extraordinary stories of Richland, Washington, and Ozersk, Russia - the first two cities in the world to produce plutonium....
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Mourning an Eternity of Radioactive Pollution
- By Will Szal on 01-01-19
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86. Plutopia
- Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters
- Narrated by: Susan Ericksen
- Length: 18 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 12-19-17
- Language: English
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A People's History of Computing in the United States
- By: Joy Lisi Rankin
- Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
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Silicon Valley gets all the credit for digital creativity, but this account of the pre-PC world, when computing meant more than using mature consumer technology, challenges that triumphalism....
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Very mixed feelings
- By Paul on 02-27-19
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87. A People's History of Computing in the United States
- Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 10-08-18
- Language: English
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The Hacker Crackdown
- Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier
- By: Bruce Sterling
- Narrated by: Tom Parks
- Length: 12 hrs and 43 mins
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Bruce Sterling delves into the world of high-tech crime and punishment in one of the first books to explore the cyberspace breaches that threaten national security....
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Great bit of journalism chronicling a bygone era.
- By Amazon Customer on 12-20-20
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88. The Hacker Crackdown
- Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier
- Narrated by: Tom Parks
- Length: 12 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 12-01-20
- Language: English
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Stephen Fry On The Phone The Complete Radio 4 Series
- By: Stephen Fry
- Narrated by: Stephen Fry
- Length: 1 hr and 6 mins
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Stephen Fry traces the evolution of the mobile phone, from hefty executive bricks that required a separate briefcase to carry the battery, to the smartphones available today....
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89. Stephen Fry On The Phone The Complete Radio 4 Series
- Narrated by: Stephen Fry
- Length: 1 hr and 6 mins
- Release date: 12-08-11
- Language: English
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The Fire Line
- The Story of the Granite Mountain Hotshots
- By: Fernanda Santos
- Narrated by: Ari Fliakos
- Length: 6 hrs and 22 mins
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An elite crew trained to combat the most challenging wildfires, the Granite Mountain Hotshots were a ragtag family crisscrossing the American West and wherever else the fires took them....
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touching
- By matt on 05-04-16
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90. The Fire Line
- The Story of the Granite Mountain Hotshots
- Narrated by: Ari Fliakos
- Length: 6 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 05-03-16
- Language: English
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Hands of Time
- A Watchmaker’s History
- By: Rebecca Struthers
- Narrated by: Anna Ploszajski
- Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
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Timepieces have long accompanied us on our travels, from the depths of the oceans to the summit of Everest, the ice of the arctic to the sands of the deserts, outer space to the surface of the moon....
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Very interesting, while it was about clocks.
- By Nicholas Conrad on 07-05-23
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91. Hands of Time
- A Watchmaker’s History
- Narrated by: Anna Ploszajski
- Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 06-13-23
- Language: English
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The Ethics of Invention
- Technology and the Human Future
- By: Sheila Jasanoff
- Narrated by: Jo Anna Perrin
- Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
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Technology rules us as much as laws do. It shapes the legal, social, and ethical environments in which we act. Every time we cross a street, drive a car, or go to the doctor, we submit....
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Masterful Performance!
- By Soraj on 02-17-17
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92. The Ethics of Invention
- Technology and the Human Future
- Narrated by: Jo Anna Perrin
- Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 10-25-16
- Language: English
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Ambassadors from Earth: Pioneering Explorations with Unmanned Spacecraft
- Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight
- By: Jay Gallentine
- Narrated by: Douglas R Pratt
- Length: 20 hrs and 1 min
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Ambassadors from Earth relates the story of the first unmanned space probes and planetary explorers - from the Sputnik and Explorer satellites launched in the late 1950's to the thrilling interstellar Voyager missions of the '70's....
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An intriguing account of early space exploration. Fantastic.
- By Michael N. Wells on 11-22-23
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93. Ambassadors from Earth: Pioneering Explorations with Unmanned Spacecraft
- Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight
- Narrated by: Douglas R Pratt
- Series: Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight
- Length: 20 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 03-28-20
- Language: English
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Samsung Rising
- The Inside Story of the South Korean Giant That Set Out to Beat Apple and Conquer Tech
- By: Geoffrey Cain
- Narrated by: Michael Braun
- Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
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An explosive exposé of one of the biggest and most secretive companies in the world, Samsung, as the Korean juggernaut battles Apple and Sony to dominate the world of technology....
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Misleading title
- By Kevin on 02-25-21
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94. Samsung Rising
- The Inside Story of the South Korean Giant That Set Out to Beat Apple and Conquer Tech
- Narrated by: Michael Braun
- Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 03-17-20
- Language: English
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Infinity Beckoned
- Adventuring Through the Inner Solar System, 1969-1989
- By: Jay Gallentine
- Narrated by: Michael Burnette
- Length: 22 hrs and 40 mins
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Infinity Beckoned illuminates a critical period of space history when humans dared an expansive leap into the inner solar system....
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Stories about unmanned spaceflight never heared
- By Marcel-Jan on 02-22-18
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95. Infinity Beckoned
- Adventuring Through the Inner Solar System, 1969-1989
- Narrated by: Michael Burnette
- Series: Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight
- Length: 22 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 02-07-17
- Language: English
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Empty Pleasures
- The Story of Artificial Sweeteners from Saccharin to Splenda
- By: Carolyn de la Pena
- Narrated by: Navida Stein
- Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
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Sugar substitutes have been a part of American life since saccharin was introduced at the 1893 World's Fair.....
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not scientific and preachy
- By Chad on 04-03-19
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96. Empty Pleasures
- The Story of Artificial Sweeteners from Saccharin to Splenda
- Narrated by: Navida Stein
- Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 12-10-10
- Language: English
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The One Device
- The Secret History of the iPhone
- By: Brian Merchant
- Narrated by: Tristan Morris
- Length: 14 hrs and 29 mins
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How did the iPhone transform our world and turn Apple into the most valuable company ever? Veteran technology journalist Brian Merchant reveals the inside story....
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TECH PORN AT ITS BEST
- By Amazon Customer on 07-11-17
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97. The One Device
- The Secret History of the iPhone
- Narrated by: Tristan Morris
- Length: 14 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 06-20-17
- Language: English
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"You Are Not Expected to Understand This"
- How 26 Lines of Code Changed the World
- By: Torie Bosch - editor, Ellen Ullman - introduction
- Narrated by: Emily Schwing, Mack Sanderson
- Length: 5 hrs and 51 mins
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In this audiobook, Mack Sanderson and Emily Schwing reveal the stories behind the computer coding that touches all aspects of life—for better or worse....
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Erudite yet oh so tractable
- By Don Stewart on 01-09-23
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98. "You Are Not Expected to Understand This"
- How 26 Lines of Code Changed the World
- Narrated by: Emily Schwing, Mack Sanderson
- Length: 5 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 11-15-22
- Language: English
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Decoding the Heavens
- By: Jo Marchant
- Narrated by: Julie Eickhoff
- Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
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In Decoding the Heavens, Jo Marchant tells for the first time the full story of the 100-year quest to decipher the ancient Greek computer known as the Antikythera Mechanism....
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Very satisfying account of an ancient mystery
- By Sean on 03-14-14
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99. Decoding the Heavens
- Narrated by: Julie Eickhoff
- Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 02-20-14
- Language: English
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Spacesuit: Fashioning Apollo
- By: Nicholas de Monchaux
- Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
- Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
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When Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin stepped onto the lunar surface in July of 1969, they wore spacesuits made by Playtex: 21 layers of fabric, each with a distinct yet interrelated function....
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Supple Triumphs Over Hard
- By Susie on 06-02-14
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100. Spacesuit: Fashioning Apollo
- Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
- Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 05-13-14
- Language: English
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