Format:
DVD
Call Number
DVD 303.483 H8479
Publication Date
2014
UPC
841887021425
ISBN
9781627890366
Title Detail
Format
eVideo
Publication Date
2014
Electronic Access
Cover Image URL
https://www.kanopy.com/node/132503/external-image
Summary
Imagine a world without the power to capture or transmit sound. Journey with Johnson to the Arcy sur Cure caves in northern France, where he finds the first traces of the desire to record sound — 10,000 years ago. He also learns about the difference that radio made in the civil rights movement and discovers that telephone inventor Alexander Graham Bell thought that the best use for his invention was long-distance jam sessions. During an ultrasound on a pregnant dolphin, he realizes just how big a role sound has played in medicine. The unsung heroes of sound have had an impact on our working lives, race relations, saving lives and the radical alteration of cities.
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Title Detail
Format
eVideo
Publication Date
2014
Electronic Access
Cover Image URL
https://www.kanopy.com/node/132497/external-image
Summary
Only in the last 200 years have humans learned how to make things cold. Johnson explains how ice entrepreneur Frederic Tudor made ice delivery the second biggest export business in the U.S. and visits the place where Clarence Birdseye, the father of the frozen food industry, experienced his eureka moment. He also travels to Dubai to see how mastery of cold has led to penguins in the desert. From IVF to food, politics and Hollywood to human migration, the unsung heroes of cold have led the way.
Title Detail
Format
eVideo
Publication Date
2014
Electronic Access
Cover Image URL
https://www.kanopy.com/node/132495/external-image
Summary
Dirty water has killed more humans than all the wars of history combined, but in the last 150 years, a series of radical ideas, extraordinary innovations and unsung heroes have changed our world. Johnson plunges into a sewer to understand what made a maverick engineer decide to lift the city of Chicago with screw jacks in order to build America’s first sewer system. He talks about John Leal, who deliberately “poisoned” the water supply of 200,000 people when, without authorization, he added chlorine, considered lethal in 1908, into Jersey City’s water and made it safe to drink. This isn’t only about the world becoming a cleaner place — the iPhone, the subway, flat screen TVs and even the bikini are the result of the valiant efforts of the unsung heroes of clean.
Title Detail
Format
eVideo
Publication Date
2014
Electronic Access
Cover Image URL
https://www.kanopy.com/node/132505/external-image
Summary
Dirty water has killed more humans than all the wars of history combined, but in the last 150 years, a series of radical ideas, extraordinary innovations and unsung heroes have changed our world. Johnson plunges into a sewer to understand what made a maverick engineer decide to lift the city of Chicago with screw jacks in order to build America’s first sewer system. He talks about John Leal, who deliberately “poisoned” the water supply of 200,000 people when, without authorization, he added chlorine, considered lethal in 1908, into Jersey City’s water and made it safe to drink. This isn’t only about the world becoming a cleaner place — the iPhone, the subway, flat screen TVs and even the bikini are the result of the valiant efforts of the unsung heroes of clean.
Title Detail
Format
eVideo
Publication Date
2014
Electronic Access
Cover Image URL
https://www.kanopy.com/node/132501/external-image
Summary
Johnson relates the story of people who take us out of the dark and into the light. Hear about Edison’s light bulb, which he didn’t actually invent, and learn how an 18th-century ship’s skipper discovered a source of illumination by putting a kid inside a whale’s head. See how a French scientist accidentally discovered how to create neon light, leading to a revolution in advertising. Dispelling the myth of the individual “eureka” moment, Johnson reveals that teamwork and collaboration led the way to the most transformative ideas. Whether changing our genetic make-up, altering the world’s sleeping patterns, transforming architecture, taking us into space or triggering one of the great social reforms in American history, the pioneers of light have made themselves indispensable throughout human history.
Title Detail
Format
eVideo
Publication Date
2014
Electronic Access
Cover Image URL
https://www.kanopy.com/node/132499/external-image
Summary
Johnson considers how the invention of the mirror gave rise to the Renaissance, how glass lenses allow us to reveal worlds within worlds and how, deep beneath the ocean, glass is essential to communication. He learns about the daring exploits of glassmakers who were forced to work under threat of the death penalty, a physics teacher who liked to fire molten glass from a crossbow and a scientist whose tinkering with a glass lens allowed 600 million people to see a man set foot on the moon. The link between the worlds of art, science, astronomy, disease prevention and global communication starts with the little-known maverick innovators of glass.
Personal Author
Format:
Books
Call Number
338.064 J695
Publication Date
2014
Author
Steven, Johnson
ISBN
9781594632969
Author (KZPL)
Personal Author
Format:
Books
Edition
[Young Readers edition].
Call Number
J 609 JOHN
Publication Date
2018
Author
Steven, Johnson
ISBN
9780425287781 9780425287798
Author (KZPL)
by
Johnson, Steven
Format:
eAudiobook
Electronic Format:
LIBBY AUDIOBOOK, MP3
Publication Date
2014
Vendor
Cover Image URL
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Author
by
Johnson, Steven
Format:
eBook
Electronic Format:
HTML, ADOBE EPUB, KINDLE
eReader
Adobe Digital Editions Kobo Nook Sony Reader bluefire
Publication Date
2014
Vendor
Cover Image URL
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Author
Title Detail
Format
eVideo
Publication Date
2014
Electronic Access
Cover Image URL
https://www.kanopy.com/node/132493/external-image
Summary
Join best-selling author Steven Johnson to discover extraordinary stories behind six remarkable ideas that made modern life possible, the unsung heroes who brought them about and the unexpected and bizarre consequences each of these innovations triggered.
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