Science: Sorted! Robots, Chips and Techno Stuff by Glenn Murphy

Science: Sorted! Robots, Chips and Techno Stuff by Glenn Murphy

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A whirlwind tour of modern technology with none of the boring bits!

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Science: Sorted! Robots, Chips and Techno Stuff by Glenn Murphy

What's inside a laptop? How can you stuff 1,000 CDs into an mp3 player? Who built the Internet? How smart is the world's smartest robot? How do smartphones and TV remote controls work? Glenn Murphy, author of Why is Snot Green?, answers these and lots of other brilliant technology questions in Robots, Chips and Techno Stuff. This fact-filled book is packed to capacity with megabytes of marvellous information, exploring everything from the first simple engines to the latest gadgets, computers and networks. Discover more funny science with Space: The Whole Whizz-Bang Story.
Glenn Murphy received his masters in science communication from London's Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine. He wrote his first popular science book, Why is Snot Green?, while managing the Explainer team at the Science Museum in London. He lives and works in Raleigh, North Carolina, with his wife, Heather, and two unusually large and ill-tempered cats.
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ISBN 13 9780330508964
ISBN 10 0330508962
Title Science: Sorted! Robots, Chips and Techno Stuff
Author Glenn Murphy
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Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Pan Macmillan
Year published 2011-08-05
Number of pages 256
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