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Backroom Boys

- The Secret Return of the British Boffin
Af: Francis Spufford Engelsk Paperback

Backroom Boys

- The Secret Return of the British Boffin
Af: Francis Spufford Engelsk Paperback
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A brilliant, beautiful account of how British boffins triumphed across the decades in creating everything from computer games to Martian landers.

The book contains chapters on the Beagle II, Elite - the 80s computer game, the Blue Streak missile, Concorde, mobile phone technology and the Human Genome Project, among others.

Britain is the only country in the world to have cancelled its space programme just as it put its first rocket into orbit. Starting with this forgotten episode, ''Backroom Boys'' tells the bittersweet story of how one country lost its industrial tradition and got back something else. Sad, inspiring, funny and ultimately triumphant, it follows the technologists whose work kept Concorde flying, created the computer game, conquered the mobile-phone business, saved the human genome for the human race - and who now are sending the Beagle 2 probe to burrow in the cinnamon sands of Mars.
''Backroom Boys'' is a vivid love-letter to quiet men in pullovers, to those whose imaginings take shape not in words but in mild steel and carbon fibre and lines of code. Above all, it is a celebration of big dreams achieved with slender means.

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A brilliant, beautiful account of how British boffins triumphed across the decades in creating everything from computer games to Martian landers.

The book contains chapters on the Beagle II, Elite - the 80s computer game, the Blue Streak missile, Concorde, mobile phone technology and the Human Genome Project, among others.

Britain is the only country in the world to have cancelled its space programme just as it put its first rocket into orbit. Starting with this forgotten episode, ''Backroom Boys'' tells the bittersweet story of how one country lost its industrial tradition and got back something else. Sad, inspiring, funny and ultimately triumphant, it follows the technologists whose work kept Concorde flying, created the computer game, conquered the mobile-phone business, saved the human genome for the human race - and who now are sending the Beagle 2 probe to burrow in the cinnamon sands of Mars.
''Backroom Boys'' is a vivid love-letter to quiet men in pullovers, to those whose imaginings take shape not in words but in mild steel and carbon fibre and lines of code. Above all, it is a celebration of big dreams achieved with slender means.

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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 272
ISBN-13: 9780571214976
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 0571214975
Kategori: Storbritannien
Udg. Dato: 2 sep 2004
Længde: 18mm
Bredde: 127mm
Højde: 198mm
Forlag: Faber & Faber
Oplagsdato: 2 sep 2004
Forfatter(e): Francis Spufford
Forfatter(e) Francis Spufford

Kategori Storbritannien

ISBN-13 9780571214976

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 272

Udgave

Længde 18mm

Bredde 127mm

Højde 198mm

Udg. Dato 2 sep 2004

Oplagsdato 2 sep 2004

Forlag Faber & Faber

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