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 Longlisted for the Audiobook Download of the Year, 2007.

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.

©2007 James May and Phil Dolling; (P)2007 Hodder and Stoughton Audiobooks Histoire et culture Moderne XXe siècle Technologie Guerre Du contenu qui fait réfléchir Innovation Aviation
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james may is my favorite person in the world, and reading books from him makd my day, but the audio sounded a bit staticy.

lovely book, narrating a bit crispy

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