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Backroom Boys: The Secret Return of the British Boffin

Francis Spufford

4.00/5 (234 ratings)

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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, The Backroom Boys tells the bittersweet story of modern British engineers and inventors. 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 sent the Beagle 2 probe to burrow in the cinnamon sands of Mars.

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Pages:: 276 pages

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Publisher:: Faber and Faber

Edition:: First Edition, New edition

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ISBN10:: 0571214975

ISBN13:: 9780571214976

kindle Asin:: B004FN1K48

Backroom Boys: The Secret Return of the British Boffin

Francis Spufford

4.00/5 (234 ratings)

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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, The Backroom Boys tells the bittersweet story of modern British engineers and inventors. 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 sent the Beagle 2 probe to burrow in the cinnamon sands of Mars.

Format:

Pages:: 276 pages

Publication:

Publisher:: Faber and Faber

Edition:: First Edition, New edition

Language:

ISBN10:: 0571214975

ISBN13:: 9780571214976

kindle Asin:: B004FN1K48

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