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  • Eject! Eject! cover art

    • Eject! Eject!

    • By: John Nichol
    • Narrated by: Thomas Judd
    • Length: 16 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 25-05-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 95 ratings

    • Nichol tells the remarkable tale of how the ejection seat was first conceived during the Second World War as countless lives were lost in accidents and in battle....

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    • James May's 20th Century

    • By: James May, Phil Dolling
    • Narrated by: James May
    • Length: 4 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 20-08-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 209 ratings
    • Longlisted for the Audiobook Download of the Year, 2007.
      How much should you pay for a return trip to the moon? How are Winnie the Pooh and the artificial heart related....

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    • The Wright Brothers

    • By: David McCullough
    • Narrated by: David McCullough
    • Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 05-05-15
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • Two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize David McCullough tells the dramatic story behind the story about the courageous brothers who taught the world how to fly....

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    • They Made America

    • From the Steam Engine to the Search Engine: Two Centuries of Innovators
    • By: Harold Evans, Gail Buckland, David Lefer
    • Narrated by: Harold Evans
    • Length: 6 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 20-10-04
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings

    • There has never been a history of America like Harold Evans's long-awaited They Made America....

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    • Simply Electrifying

    • The Technology That Transformed the World, from Benjamin Franklin to Elon Musk
    • By: Craig R. Roach
    • Narrated by: Tom Perkins
    • Length: 15 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 15-08-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • Simply Electrifying brings to life the 250-year history of electricity through the stories of the men and women who used it to transform our world....

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    • Invention and Innovation

    • A Brief History of Hype and Failure
    • By: Vaclav Smil
    • Narrated by: Tim Fannon
    • Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 11-07-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 10 ratings

    • From the New York Times-bestselling author comes a new volume on the history of human ingenuity—and its attendant breakthroughs and busts....

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    • Ancient High Tech

    • The Astonishing Scientific Achievements of Early Civilizations
    • By: Frank Joseph
    • Narrated by: Andy Rick
    • Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 15-09-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings

    • A detailed look into ancient advanced technology, science, and medicine - some of which has yet to be reproduced today....

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    • Tesla

    • Inventor of the Electrical Age
    • By: W. Bernard Carlson
    • Narrated by: Allan Robertson
    • Length: 16 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 16-01-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 43 ratings
    • Nikola Tesla was a major contributor to the electrical revolution that transformed daily life at the turn of the 20th century....

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    • The Everything Blueprint

    • The Microchip Design That Changed the World
    • By: James Ashton
    • Narrated by: James Ashton
    • Length: 11 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 11-05-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings

    • The Everything Blueprint describes the titanic power struggle for control of the microchip - told through the story of a British start up that has found itself in the middle....

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    • Stories in 360 Degrees

    • The Storytelling Magic of Spatial Audio with Dolby Atmos
    • By: The Audible Editors, Sam Danis
    • Narrated by: Sam Danis
    • Length: 29 mins
    • Release date: 22-03-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings

    • Audible editor Sam Danis delves into spatial audio with Dolby Atmos: what it is, what makes it so immersive, and what the future holds for audio entertainment. Featuring conversations with experts in sound design and production.
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    • Hardcore Inventing

    • Invent, Protect, Promote, and Profit From Your Ideas
    • By: Robert Yanover, Ellie Crowe
    • Narrated by: Erik Synnestvedt
    • Length: 6 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 23-02-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Based on the author’s experience in the world of inventing and promotion, Hardcore Inventing offers the kind of advice you can only learn from experience....

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    • The Substance of Civilization

    • Materials and Human History from the Stone Age to the Age of Silicon
    • By: Stephen L. Sass
    • Narrated by: John Haag
    • Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 23-02-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 32 ratings
    • The story of human civilization can be read most deeply in the materials we have found or created, used or abused......

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    • Superspy Science

    • Science, Death and Tech in the World of James Bond
    • By: Kathryn Harkup
    • Narrated by: Nicky Diss
    • Length: 11 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 01-09-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 5 ratings

    • Science and technology have always been central to the plots that make up the world of Bond, and in Superspy Science Kathryn Harkup explores the full range of 007’s exploits and the arms, technologies, tactics and downfalls of his various foes....

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    • ChatGPT Made Simple

    • How Anyone Can Harness AI to Streamline Their Work, Study, and Everyday Tasks to Boost Productivity and Maintain Competitive Edge by Mastering Prompt Engineering
    • By: D. Nardo Publications
    • Narrated by: Scott Gillis
    • Length: 3 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 04-12-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 48 ratings

    • This isn't a tech-babble narration or AI's self-portrait. It's an easy-to-grasp audio guide aimed at anyone and everyone—parents, executives, retirees—ready to embrace the future....

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    • Plato and the Nerd

    • The Creative Partnership of Humans and Technology
    • By: Edward Ashford Lee
    • Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
    • Length: 12 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 15-05-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating

    • Edward Ashford Lee explores the ways that engineers use models and abstraction to build inventive artificial worlds and to give us things that we never dreamed of. But he attempts to counter the enthusiasm of technology boosters who claim everything in the physical world is a computation....

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    • A Triumph of Genius

    • Edwin Land, Polaroid, and the Kodak Patent War
    • By: Ronald K. Fierstein
    • Narrated by: Pete Larkin
    • Length: 24 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 17-02-15
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • This riveting biography from the American Bar Association visits the spectacular life of Edwin Land, breakthrough inventor....

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    • The Optimist's Telescope

    • Thinking Ahead in a Reckless Age
    • By: Bina Venkataraman
    • Narrated by: Bina Venkataraman
    • Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 27-08-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings

    • A trailblazing exploration of how we can plan better for the future: our own, our families’, and our society’s....

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    • Nostalgia Nerd's Gadgets, Gizmos & Gimmicks

    • A Potted History of Personal Tech
    • By: Peter Leigh
    • Narrated by: Peter Leigh
    • Length: 4 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 13-10-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings

    • Peter Leigh takes a fun, informative and irreverent romp through the history of more than 40 pieces of personal tech, charting the successes, failures and oddities from over five decades of our obsession with gadgetry....

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