The Life Scientific: Inventors
From the geneticist who cloned Dolly the sheep to the inventor of the battery bag, this book delves into the lives and ambitions of Britain’s trailblazing scientists
Do you ever wonder how insects and aeroplanes stay in the air, how your kettle knows when it’s time to stop heating, or how tunnels in our subway systems stay up under the weight of an entire city? In The Life Scientific: Inventors, Anna Buckley summarises interviews between Jim Al-Khalili and eighteen pioneering inventors; discussing their greatest achievements from silent planes to regenerating bones, and many things in between.