Time Traveler Inventions

Time Traveler Inventions
Author: Oldrich Ruzicka
Publisher: Walter Foster Pub
Total Pages: 50
Release: 2015-06-15
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1633220060
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A fun new format including a time traveller's dial allows kids to explore some of the greatest inventions in history. This interactive book format invites children to go through different time periods, learning about the invention of the bicycle, the first telephone, the airplane and many more. The cover mechanism enables them to dial into and learn about a specific period in history through colorful and inviting illustrations and facts. This entertaining reference tool is a great resource and addition to a home library.

Time Travel

Time Travel
Author: James Gleick
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2017-09-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 080416892X
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Best Books of 2016 BOSTON GLOBE * THE ATLANTIC From the acclaimed bestselling author of The Information and Chaos comes this enthralling history of time travel—a concept that has preoccupied physicists and storytellers over the course of the last century. James Gleick delivers a mind-bending exploration of time travel—from its origins in literature and science to its influence on our understanding of time itself. Gleick vividly explores physics, technology, philosophy, and art as each relates to time travel and tells the story of the concept's cultural evolutions—from H.G. Wells to Doctor Who, from Proust to Woody Allen. He takes a close look at the porous boundary between science fiction and modern physics, and, finally, delves into what it all means in our own moment in time—the world of the instantaneous, with its all-consuming present and vanishing future.

The Time Traveller

The Time Traveller
Author: Ronald L. Mallett
Publisher: Thunder's Mouth Press
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2007
Genre: Fourth dimension
ISBN: 9780385612432
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Follows the author's journey of self - and scientific discovery as he describes the physics that makes time travel possible. This book is a human memoir, and also a story of astonishing achievement.

The Medieval Invention of Travel

The Medieval Invention of Travel
Author: Shayne Aaron Legassie
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 317
Release: 2017-04-12
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 022644273X
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Over the course of the Middle Ages, the economies of Europe, Asia, and northern Africa became more closely integrated, fostering the international and intercontinental journeys of merchants, pilgrims, diplomats, missionaries, and adventurers. During a time in history when travel was often difficult, expensive, and fraught with danger, these wayfarers composed accounts of their experiences in unprecedented numbers and transformed traditional conceptions of human mobility. Exploring this phenomenon, The Medieval Invention of Travel draws on an impressive array of sources to develop original readings of canonical figures such as Marco Polo, John Mandeville, and Petrarch, as well as a host of lesser-known travel writers. As Shayne Aaron Legassie demonstrates, the Middle Ages inherited a Greco-Roman model of heroic travel, which viewed the ideal journey as a triumph over temptation and bodily travail. Medieval travel writers revolutionized this ancient paradigm by incorporating practices of reading and writing into the ascetic regime of the heroic voyager, fashioning a bold new conception of travel that would endure into modern times. Engaging methods and insights from a range of disciplines, The Medieval Invention of Travel offers a comprehensive account of how medieval travel writers and their audiences reshaped the intellectual and material culture of Europe for centuries to come.

The Time Machine illustrated

The Time Machine illustrated
Author: H. G. Wells
Publisher: BoD - Books on Demand
Total Pages: 114
Release: 2022-06-22
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 2384370014
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The Time Machine by H. G. Wells is a science fiction classic, which lends itself well to visualization. This version, illustrated by Yoann Laurent-Rouault, an illustrator master who graduated from the Beaux-Arts, and published in the international literary collection Memoria Books, is a reference on the time travel theme. Wells transports us in the year 802 701, in a society made up of the “Elois”, who live peacefully in a kind of big Garden of Eden, eating fruits and sleeping high up, while underground lives another species, also descending from men, the “Morlocks”, who do not stand the light anymore, living in the dark for too long now. At night, they return to the surface, going back up by the wells, in order to kidnap some Elois that they eat ; these last became livestock unknowingly. In The Time Machine, made into a movie several times, the last of them in 2002 by Simon Wells, the great-grandson of H. G. Wells, time is both a pretext to move the class struggle and warn... and also, in a way, a full character, who fascinates, arbitrates, transcends... The illustrations come to reinforce the time travel and provide a new experience to the reader.

Books, Banks, Buttons

Books, Banks, Buttons
Author: Chiara Frugoni
Publisher:
Total Pages: 178
Release: 2005
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780231128131
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Identifies the technological innovations of the middle ages, noting how such ubiquitous items as eyeglasses, books, arabic numbers, underwear, banks, the game of chess, clocks, and domesticated cats came into being during the period.

The Greatest Invention

The Greatest Invention
Author: Silvia Ferrara
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Total Pages: 227
Release: 2022-03-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0374601631
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In this exhilarating celebration of human ingenuity and perseverance—published all around the world—a trailblazing Italian scholar sifts through our cultural and social behavior in search of the origins of our greatest invention: writing. The L where a tabletop meets the legs, the T between double doors, the D of an armchair’s oval backrest—all around us is an alphabet in things. But how did these shapes make it onto the page, never mind form complex structures such as this sentence? In The Greatest Invention, Silvia Ferrara takes a profound look at how—and how many times—human beings have managed to produce the miracle of written language, traveling back and forth in time and all across the globe to Mesopotamia, Crete, China, Egypt, Central America, Easter Island, and beyond. With Ferrara as our guide, we examine the enigmas of undeciphered scripts, including famous cases like the Phaistos Disk and the Voynich Manuscript; we touch the knotted, colored strings of the Inca quipu; we study the turtle shells and ox scapulae that bear the earliest Chinese inscriptions; we watch in awe as Sequoyah single-handedly invents a script for the Cherokee language; and we venture to the cutting edge of decipherment, in which high-powered laser scanners bring tears to an engineer’s eye. A code-cracking tour around the globe, The Greatest Invention chronicles a previously uncharted journey, one filled with past flashes of brilliance, present-day scientific research, and a faint, fleeting glimpse of writing’s future.

The Psychology of Time Travel

The Psychology of Time Travel
Author: Kate Mascarenhas
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2018-08-09
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 178669915X
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'An astonishing debut... Breathtakingly tender and wryly understated' NEW YORK TIMES. 'Genre-defying... Witty and inventive' GUARDIAN. 1967. Four female scientists invent a time travel machine. But then one of them suffers a breakdown and puts the whole project in peril... 2017. Ruby knows her Granny Bee was the scientist who went mad, but they never talk about it. Until they receive a message from the future, warning of an elderly woman's violent death... 2018. Odette found the dead women at work – shot in the head, door bolted from the inside. Now she can't get her out of her mind. Who was she? And why is everyone determined to cover up her murder? 'A page-turning temporal safari. Part murder mystery, part extrapolation of a world in which time travel has become a commercial reality, it is written with an acute sense of psychological nuance' GUARDIAN. 'Intriguing and multi-layered' DAILY MAIL. 'Captivating, delightful and thoroughly original' JENNIE MELAMED. 'Troubling and inspiring, comforting and horrifying' SCIFINOW.

Exciting Time Machine Invention

Exciting Time Machine Invention
Author: John Lok
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2023-05-20
Genre:
ISBN: 9789357902243
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This time machine science story concerns one lecturer invents one time machine to help the main actor his student Johnny to catch his time machine to go to the future time and go back the present time travel. His student Johnny's surprising journey will be described in this fiction. This story introduces one scientist invents one time machine to bring whose one student to go to future time journey. It is my first science fiction novel written and a science comedy, a time travel science story. This scenario of this series takes place in four stages of journey. This lecturer will memorize to speak to let his students to know from his final time machine journey to early time machine journey. The Boston university Lecturer, Jim had invented on time machine. This time machine can apply space black hole principle to hekp any earth travellers to enter any bilding black hole wall to go to our future, even go back either present or past time. Their journey will be very exciting. In their machine time journeys, they had encountered aliens, futuer robotic enemy, even the boston univesity lecturer Jim his future himself. The Boston university lecturer, time machine inventor, Jim and his student, johnny, time traveler both have gone into the future to the year 802,000 I and have come back present in final journey, after they had experienced several different future time journeys. They expect to find a better world with highly intelligent people and great inventions. Instead, they find that people have become weak, child-like creatures. They dance and sing, and wear flowers. They seem happy, but they also felt fear. Whether what cause they felt afraid, but why are they so frightened when they knew whether what will happen in the future ? And who or hat has stolen their time black hole wall machine? Will these two time travelers, ever be able to return to the present ?