The professional engineers she had consulted were more trouble than they were worth: “I couldn’t get men to do the things I wanted in my way until they had tried and failed in their own,” she wrote, reflecting on that 1893 prototype. Tracing the surprising journeys of each invention through the millennia, Roma reveals how handmade Roman nails led to modern skyscrapers, how the potter's wheel enabled space exploration, and how humble lenses helped her conceive a child against the odds. Roma is passionate about promoting engineering and technical careers to young people, particularly those from minoritized groups, and has won international awards for her technical prowess and for her advocacy for the profession, including the prestigious Royal Academy of Engineering's Rooke Award. And so it is fitting that Agrawal’s first subject should be what, on the surface at least, appears to be our most obvious and trivial invention: the nail.

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Another of her subjects – string – helped in a similar way, although this was a technology we could entangle and wind to bind a shard of flint to an axe handle, or adapt into products as diverse as clothing and guitar strings. Roma Agrawal, a structural engineer, cut her teeth on the Northumbria University bridge in Newcastle and is best known for her work on The Shard. Als Versandart wählen wir immer eine schnelle Option (in Deutschland Brief oder DHL-Paket, ins Ausland Warenpost oder DHL-Paket). This curiosity extended to cars, computers and coffee machines, leading her down a path not only to a successful career in engineering, but also towards a deep understanding of the evolution of these early innovations that would become fascinating chapters in a book about who we were, are and will be as humans. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp.By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. In her new book Nuts and Bolts Seven Small Inventions That Changed the World (in a Big Way), structural engineer Roma Agrawal identifies and examines the seven of most basic building blocks of engineering that have shaped the modern world: the nail, the wheel, the spring, the lens, the magnet, the string, and the pump. In Nuts and Bolts she focuses on humble devices, on nails and wheels, springs and magnets, lenses and pumps and strings (which apparently “enabled our ancestors to spin out a series of innovations”; this is not a book lacking in puns). The nuts and bolts that make up our world may be tiny, and are often hidden, but they've changed our lives in dramatic ways. By submitting this form, you acknowledge that you have read the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy, that you understand them, and that you agree to be bound by them.

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So, as engineers, let’s place the good of the planet and its inhabitants at the heart of our work,” Agrawal concludes, with a glibness that would be funny if it were not so trying. The resulting reports were published in very limited quantities for those that might find them useful. So, while Cochran’s dishwasher sits at the heart of the discussion of wheels, the chapter ends with a stellar flourish, describing the four 100kg gyroscopes, spinning 6,600 times a minute, whose angular momentum stabilises the International Space Station in Earth orbit. Inside this wonderfully engaging book is a profound message: that so much of technology comes from ingenious reiterations of just a few innovations in engineering. At the end of the Second World War The British Intelligence Objectives Subcommittee (BIOS) and other Agency personnel inspected German factories, laboratories, industries, etc, to scrutinise documents and interrogate or interview the directors, scientists, engineers, etc to obtain technical information that might be of value.The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. Agrawal explores an array of intricate technologies—dishwashers, spacesuits, microscopes, suspension bridges, breast pumps—making surprising connections, explaining how they work, and using her own hand-drawn illustrations to clarify complex technical principles. Along the way, she recounts the stories of remarkable scientists and engineers from all over the world, and reveals how engineering has fundamentally changed the way we live.

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While it’s tempting to think of ‘Nuts and Bolts’ as an examination of old-fashioned things relegated to rusty tobacco tins in sheds, it’s also worth keeping in mind that the phrase ‘nuts and bolts’ has passed into our everyday language to signify what’s really important about any situation. Josephine Cochran, a socialite and mother of two, found that her maid kept chipping her dishes while doing the washing-up. Tracing the surprising journeys of each invention through the millennia, Roma reveals how handmade Roman nails led to modern skyscrapers, how the potter’s wheel enabled space exploration, and how humble lenses helped her conceive a child against the odds. Roma Agrawal is an engineer, author and presenter who is best known for working on the design of The Shard, Western Europe's tallest tower. Buch ist in einem sehr guten Zustand, Papier in sehr gutem Zustand, Text in deutscher und englischer Sprache.She invites us to marvel at these small but perfectly formed inventions, sharing the stories of the remarkable, and often unknown, scientists and engineers who made them possible. Roma has given talks to thousands at universities, schools and organisations around the world, including TEDx.