| Description |
vii, 296 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Atomic bombs -- Building an artificial satellite in space -- Machine hearts and lungs -- Doing something about the weather -- Atoms instead of fuel -- Can science create life? -- "This most excellent canopy, the air" -- Luck -- Change in science means social change -- Cyclopean eye of Palomar -- Play's the thing -- Into the mystery zone of supersonic speed -- Ciphers, codes, and the way they are "broken" -- Power from the sun -- Newer concept of man and his body -- Tides in the affairs of man -- Scientific mind -- Enigma of cancer -- Evangelist of Utopia -- Lure of sunken treasure. |
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Science.
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Science. |
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