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The Greatest Science Stories Never Told
[Hardback - 2009]
rick beyer
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Category: Science
Sub-category: Popular Science
Publisher: Harper Usa | ISBN: 9780061626968 | Pages: 214
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100 tales of invention and discovery to astonish, bewilder, & stupefy Meet the angry undertaker who gave us the push-button phone. Discover how modesty led to the invention of the stethoscope. Find out why Albert Einstein patented a refrigerator. Learn how a train full of trumpeters made science history. Did you know about: The frustrated fashion designer who created the space suit? The gun-toting newspaperman who invented the parking meter? The midnight dreams that led to a Nobel Prize? They're so good, you can't read just one!

About the Author

Rick Beyer is a best-selling author, an award-winning filmmaker and long-time history enthusiast. His newest book,Rivals Unto Deathtraces the thirty-year rivalry of Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr."In this fascinating dual biography, Beyer brings these two towering figures to vivid life on the page." --New York Timesbestselling authorHampton Sides.Beyer is the co-author (with Elizabeth Sayles Sayles) of theNew York TimesbestsellerThe Ghost Army of World War II How One Top-Secret Unit Deceived the Enemy with Inflatable Tanks Sound Effects and Other Audacious Fakery.Beyer has spent nearly a decade researching this story. His award-winning documentary film about the unit,The Ghost Armypremiered on PBS in 2013.The San Francisco Chroniclecalled the film “mesmerizing,” whileTV Guidereferred to it as “entrancing.”Beyer has also produced documentary films for The History Channel, A&E, National Geographic, the Smithsonian and others. He is the author ofThe Greatest Stories Never Toldseries of history books published by Harper Collins, and described by theChicago Tribuneas “an old fashioned sweetshop full of tasty morsels.”Beyer has shared his unique take on history in interviews onCBS, MSNBC, CNN, The Discovery Channel, The History Channel, NPR, Fox News,and audiences around the country. He has also worked as a radio reporter, a TV news producer, an ad agency creative director, and a janitor (not in that order). And here's a few other things he's done.•Camp for ten days in the mosquito-infested Siberian Wilderness•Flee New Orleans the day before Katrina•Interview Jimmy Carter in the White House•Climb Mt. Washington 5 times•Get called stupid by David Brinkley•Be consoled by Mary Tyler Moore•Marry a beautiful woman during a lightning stormA graduate of Dartmouth College, Beyer lives in Lexington, Massachusetts, with his wife, Marilyn Rea Beyer (see above about the lightning storm!)

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