The Further Inventions of Daedalus: A Compendium of Plausible Schemes

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The Further Inventions of Daedalus: A Compendium of Plausible Schemes
by David E. H. Jones
from Oxford University Press, USA

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• Avg. Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0

• Breathtaking Intellect Meets Astounding Creativity
  This book features diverse tongue-in-cheek inventions, all of which were cooked up in the mind of the author. While the majority of the inventions are (and were intended to be) impracticable, each one sets the mind spinning in a deliciously enjoyable way.

  Every section is only a couple of pages long, but this is not a book that one should race through. Each article contains ideas to be savoured.

  If these were only off-the-cuff ideas, this book wouldn't be so impressive. What really makes the difference... more info

• Brainstorming at its finest
  A great collection of brainstormed ideas written as jokes for a column in New Scientist, some possibly practical, some wonderfully absurd. For example, in the original "The Inventions of Daedalus" (now out of print), he independently invents stereolithography in one column; in another he tries to determine the mass of the soul.

• Science doesn't get more entertaining than this
  Under the pseudonym of Daedalus, David Jones has been writing for Nature and New Scientist for thirty-odd years; this is the second collection. The hundred short essays here are a hard-to-describe cross between humour and serious scientific speculation. The humour is actually in the science itself, which sounds hard to believe until you read it.

  For example, Daedalus comes up with a scheme to generate electricity from the Rockies, not by hydro-electricity, which lets the descent of water generate power,... more info

• Imagination soaring in scientific blue skies
  What a delight it is to find that David Jones has compiled another compendium of the plausible schemes of Daedalus. Anyone with the slightest interest in science will find hours of pleasure randomly dipping into this collection of Daedalus's musings culled from New Scientist, The Guardian and Nature over the last 30 years.

  The breadth of David Jones's learning is astonishing - no scientific discipline is immune from the attentions of Daedalus and his team of DREADCO scientists. Reading this book... more info

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