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Makers of the Modern World is the third volume of William Gurstelles unique, hands-on journey through history. Each chapter examines a remarkable character from the past, one of the people whose insights and inventions helped create our modern world. What sets this series apart from other history books - including other histories of technology - is that each chapter also includes step-by-step instructions for making your own version of the historical invention. History comes to life in a way you have never experienced before when you follow the inventors steps and recreate the groundbreaking devices of the past with your own hands.
This volume brings you to the early modern era and the invention of the electric light, the movie projector, and the automobile. Inside, you will discover:
- Alessandro Volta and Electroplating
- Humphrey Davy and the First Electric light
- George Cayley and the Aeronautical Glider
- The Lumiere Brothers and the Movie Projector
- Rudolf Diesel and the Automobile Engine
- Hans Goldschmidt and the Thermite Reaction
- August Mobius and the Mobius Strip
- Louis Poinsots Loads, Moments, and Torques
Be sure to also check out ReMaking History, Volume 1: Early Makers and ReMaking History Volume 2: Industrial Revolutionaries.
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ReMaking History, Volume 3
Makers of the Modern World
By William Gurstelle
Copyright 2017 William Gurstelle. All rights reserved.
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February 2017: First Edition
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Sincere appreciation to the staff at Maker Media for all theyve done.
Thanks to my wife Karen for her invaluable help and support.
William Gurstelle has been writing for Make: magazine pretty much since the beginning. Besides 40 or so ReMaking History columns, his work there has included do-it-yourself pieces on a gravity-powered catapult, a taffy-pulling machine, a Taser-powered potato cannon, and an ornithopter. Hes also a bestselling author, a registered engineer, and a popular speaker on the world of science and technology.
Try to imagine what life was like 150 years ago, before many of the great modern inventions that shape our world came on the scene. Imagine a time when the only music you could hear was played livea time before airplanes allowed us to span continents in hours, not months or years. Imagine a time when all news was local because any event that took place more than a couple of days ride away by horseback was too far away to care about.
For better or worse (and in almost everyones opinion, its certainly for the better), technology has mightily changed the way we wander through our day-to-day lives, from the moment were born to the time we leave this world.
This book explores the incredibly rich inventive time period that roughly spans the beginning of the 19th century to the middle of the 20th. It can be argued that this window of time saw the most rapid transformation of society due to technology. If a person living in say, 1600, were time transported to 1750, he or she would notice a great many astounding changes in the world, without a doubt. But that person, I argue, would be far more able to understand and would much more quickly adapt to his or her surroundings than a person who teleported from 1800 to 1950.
Thats because of the breathtaking pace of change that was a hallmark of this period that I term the Golden Age of Invention. Automobiles, airplanes, refrigeration, electronic communications, movies, and radio are just a few of these Golden Age of Invention technologies.
Undoubtedly, the people of the time were aware of the breakneck pace at which technology was changing their world, and they had to try mightily to understand what they saw going on around them. Imagine moving from horses to cars, from kerosene lanterns to electricity, and from, well, nothing to radio in just a few decades.
In some quarters, people genuinely feared that invention and technology were changing the world too quickly, and in ways that were not good for many. But for a great many others, the Golden Age of Invention was an exhilarating, even thrilling time to be alive.
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