Mark Miodownik
It's a Gas: The Magnificent and Elusive Elements that Expand Our World
It's a Gas: The Magnificent and Elusive Elements that Expand Our World
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Mark Miodownik's "It's a Gas" masterfully explores the invisible world of gases, revealing their diverse personalities and historical impact on modern civilization. From laughing gas parties to air valves in musical instruments, gases have shaped our world in remarkable ways.
Format: Hardback
Length: 304 pages
Publication date: 11 July 2024
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
A witty, smart writer with a great talent, Bill Gates, has written a book that combines education and anecdotes. Clive Cookson, FT, has praised the book for its unique brand of scientific storytelling. In It's a Gas, Mark Miodownik masterfully reveals an invisible world through his unique brand of scientific storytelling. Taking us back to the exhilarating and often dangerous moment when scientists tried to work out exactly what they had discovered, Miodownik shows that gases are the formative substances of our modern world, each with its own weird and wonderful personality. We see how seventeenth-century laughing gas parties led to the first use of anaesthetics in surgery, how the invention of the air valve in musical instruments gave us bicycles, cars, and trainers, and how gases made us masters of the sea (by huge steamships) and skies (via extremely flammable balloons). This delight of a book reveals the immense importance of gases to modern civilisation.
Weight: 504g
Dimension: 242 x 160 x 28 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780241376386
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