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    • The Visionary Life of Buckminster Fuller
    • By: Alec Nevala-Lee
    • Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
    • Length: 18 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 08-02-22
    • Language: English
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    • During his lifetime, Buckminster Fuller was hailed as one of the greatest geniuses of the twentieth century....

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    • By: Margaret Frith
    • Narrated by: Kevin Pariseau
    • Length: 1 hr and 1 min
    • Release date: 03-26-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 23 ratings
    • One day in 1882, Thomas Edison flipped a switch that lit up lower Manhattan with incandescent light and changed the way people live ever after. The electric light bulb was only one of thousands of Edison’s inventions, which include the phonograph and the kinetoscope....

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    • The MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series
    • By: Paul E. Ceruzzi
    • Narrated by: Tim Andres Pabon
    • Length: 3 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 10-30-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 58 ratings
    • The history of computing could be told as the story of hardware and software or the story of the Internet or the story of "smart" handheld devices....

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    • By: Tony Reinke
    • Narrated by: Tom Parks
    • Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 02-08-22
    • Language: English
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    • New technologies can inspire us, but the breakneck pace of change can also frighten us. To build a biblical theology of technology, journalist and tech optimist Tony Reinke examines nine key texts from Scripture to show how the world’s discoveries are divinely orchestrated....

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    • By: Ken Albala, The Great Courses
    • Narrated by: Ken Albala
    • Length: 3 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 12-17-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8,661 ratings
    • This course traces bourbon's entire history, from the 1700s, with Irish, Scottish, and French settlers setting up stills and making distilled spirits in the New World, through today's booming resurgence....

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    • The Natural History of Innovation
    • By: Steven Johnson
    • Narrated by: Eric Singer
    • Length: 7 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 10-05-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,351 ratings
    • What sparks the flash of brilliance? One of our most innovative, popular thinkers takes on - in exhilarating style - one of our key questions....

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    • The History of Our Future
    • By: Tom Wheeler
    • Narrated by: Brian Troxell
    • Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 10-01-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • In an era of seemingly instant change, it's easy to think that today's revolutions - in communications, business, and many areas of daily life - are unprecedented. Today's changes may be new and may be happening faster than ever before....

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    • The Battle for the Airwaves and the Birth of the Communications Age
    • By: Scott Woolley
    • Narrated by: Stephen Hoye
    • Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 04-26-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 89 ratings
    • The astonishing story of America's airwaves and the two friends - one a media mogul, the other a famous inventor - who made them available to us....

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    • The Secret History of the iPhone
    • By: Brian Merchant
    • Narrated by: Tristan Morris
    • Length: 14 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 06-20-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 605 ratings
    • 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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    • Inside the Invention of a Battery to Save the World
    • By: Steve LeVine
    • Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
    • Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 02-05-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 164 ratings
    • Soul of the New Machine for our time, a gripping account of invention, commerce, and duplicity in the age of technology....

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    • By: Vannevar Bush
    • Narrated by: Adam Grupper
    • Length: 14 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 07-15-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • Over a 60-year career in public affairs, Vannevar Bush—engineer, inventor, educator, and public face of government-funded science—sought to eliminate roadblocks to innovation in science and technology....

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    • By: Edmund Morris
    • Narrated by: Arthur Morey
    • Length: 25 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 10-22-19
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 354 ratings
    • Although Thomas Alva Edison was the most famous American of his time, and remains an international name today, he is mostly remembered only for the gift of universal electric light....

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    • The New Era in Brain Enhancement That Is Revolutionizing the Way We Think, Work, and Heal
    • By: Tan Le
    • Narrated by: Tan Le
    • Length: 9 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 02-25-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 119 ratings
    • Brain science is at the dawn of a new era - and the technologies emerging as a result could forever alter what it means to be human. Welcome to what tech pioneer and inventor Tan Le calls “the NeuroGeneration.” It will blow your mind....

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    • The One Who Changed the World: Great Biographies, Book 1
    • By: The History Hour
    • Narrated by: Jerry Beebe
    • Series: Great Biographies, Book 19
    • Length: 1 hr and 26 mins
    • Release date: 01-11-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 37 ratings
    • There is a lot more to the story than just the light bulb, and there is a lot more to the invention of the light bulb than just Thomas Edison. One thing is for sure - he is still remembered as one of the greatest inventors of all time....

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    • Inventions that Changed the Way the World Moves
    • By: Vivian Kirkfield
    • Narrated by: Pete Cross, Zoe Cross-Nelms
    • Length: 1 hr and 8 mins
    • Release date: 02-18-21
    • Language: English
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    • Informative and celebratory, this collective biography tells the story of the experiments, failures, and successes of visionaries who changed the way the world moves....

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    • A Story of Steam, Industry, and Invention
    • By: William Rosen
    • Narrated by: Michael Prichard
    • Length: 13 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 06-01-10
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 192 ratings
    • Award-winning author William Rosen tells the story of the men responsible for the Industrial Revolution and the machine that drove it: the steam engine....

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