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The Science of Spin: The Force Behind Everything – From Falling Cats to Jet Engines

By Ennos, Roland

Future Stories: A user's guide to the future

By Christian, David

The World for a Shilling: How the Great Exhibition of 1851 Shaped a Nation

By Leapman, Michael

The Man Behind the Microchip: Robert Noyce and the Invention of Silicon Valley

By Leslie Berlin

London Transport Since 1963

By Michael H C Baker

The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World

By David W. Anthony

Branch Lines of Berkshire

By Colin G. Maggs

East Kent Road Car Company Ltd: A Century of Service, 1916-2016

By Richard Wallace

Bikes and Bloomers: Victorian Women Inventors and their Extraordinary Cycle Wear

By Kat Jungnickel (Goldsmiths College (University of London))

Wise Animals: How Technology Has Made Us What We Are

By Tom Chatfield

Nuts and Bolts: Seven Small Inventions That Changed the World in a Big Way

By Roma Agrawal

The History of Flight

Empire of the Sum: The Rise and Reign of the Pocket Calculator

By Keith Houston

Waterwings

By Gus Green

From Sails to Satellites

By J.E.D. Williams

Human Race: 10 Centuries of Change on Earth

By Ian Mortimer

British Rail

By Christian Wolmar

The Human Age: The World Shaped by Us

By Diane Ackerman

Brilliant Bridges: Band 09/Gold (Collins Big Cat)

By Barnham, Kay, Veres, Laszlo, Collins Big Cat

Fifty Years of Farm Machinery: From Starting Handle to Microchip

By Brian Bell

Heyday Of The Trolleybus

By PILTZ

The World's Greatest Air Depot: Pictorial History of the U.S. 8th Air Force at Warton, 1942-46

By Harry Holmes

Skoda

By Ivan Margolius, Charles Meisl

A Brief History of the Age of Steam

By Thomas Crump

Steam Railways of the World

By Patrick Whitehouse

Britain's Canals: Exploring their Architectural and Engineering Wonders

By Anthony Burton, Derek Pratt

Kent Airfields in the Second World War

By Robin J. Brooks

Brunel: pocket GIANTS

By Eugene Byrne

Oliver Heaviside: Maverick Mastermind of Electricity

By Basil Mahon

American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer

By Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin