James May's 20th Century James May's 20th Century

James May's 20th Century

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Publisher Description

How much should you pay for a return trip to the moon? How are Winnie the Pooh and the artificial heart related? Did teenagers exist before 1950? If not, who invented them? James May's 20th Century answers all these questions and more.
In this exclusive download released to tie-in with the BBC TV series, James May explores the iconic themes of the century: flight, space travel, television, mechanised war, medicine, computers, electronic music, skyscrapers, electronic espionage, and much more.

But he also reveals the hidden story behind why some inventions like the Zeppelin, the motorcycle side car, or the Theremin struggled to make their mark. He examines the tipping points � when technologies such as the car or the internet became unstoppable � and gets up close by looking at the nuts and bolt of remarkable inventions.

Packed with surprising statistics and intriguing facts, this is the ideal book for anyone who wants to know how stuff works and why some stuff didn't make it.

GENRE
Non-Fiction
NARRATOR
JM
James May
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
04:33
hr min
RELEASED
2007
20 August
PUBLISHER
Hodder Headline Limited
PRESENTED BY
Audible.co.uk
SIZE
218.5
MB

Customer Reviews

Pete_VN52 ,

Captain Slow? Captain Gabble more like

An interesting book, and great subject matter, but it's not very well read. It's almost as if May's paying for the recording studio with his own money as he gabbles away at speed.

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