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    • The Visionary Life of Buckminster Fuller
    • By: Alec Nevala-Lee
    • Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
    • Length: 18 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 08-02-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 41 ratings
    • During his lifetime, Buckminster Fuller was hailed as one of the greatest geniuses of the twentieth century....

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    • A Brief History of Hype and Failure
    • By: Vaclav Smil
    • Narrated by: Tim Fannon
    • Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 07-11-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 41 ratings
    • From the New York Times-bestselling author comes a new volume on the history of human ingenuity—and its attendant breakthroughs and busts....

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    • The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla
    • By: Nikola Tesla
    • Narrated by: Sean Runnette
    • Length: 2 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 12-05-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 644 ratings
    • This autobiography is a fascinating glimpse into the interior life of a man who may have contributed more to the fields of electricity, radio, and television than any other person living or dead....

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    • The Untold Weirdness of History's Greatest Geniuses
    • By: Katie Spalding
    • Narrated by: Susie Riddell
    • Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 05-16-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 192 ratings
    • Overturn everything you knew about history’s greatest minds in this raucous and hilarious book, where it turns out there's a finer line between "genius" and "idiot" than we've previously known....

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    • How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
    • By: Walter Isaacson
    • Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris
    • Length: 17 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 10-07-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8,056 ratings
    • Following his blockbuster biography of Steve Jobs, The Innovators is Walter Isaacson’s revealing story of the people who created the computer and the Internet....

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    • Inventor of the Electrical Age
    • By: W. Bernard Carlson
    • Narrated by: Allan Robertson
    • Length: 16 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 01-16-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 353 ratings
    • Nikola Tesla was a major contributor to the electrical revolution that transformed daily life at the turn of the 20th century....

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    • A Life of Learning Through Failure
    • By: James Dyson
    • Narrated by: James Dyson
    • Length: 11 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 09-07-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 219 ratings
    • Dyson has become a byword for high-performing products, technology, design, and invention. Now, James Dyson, the inventor and entrepreneur who made it all happen, tells his remarkable and inspirational story in Invention: A Life....

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    • The Geniuses, Visionaries, Egomaniacs, and Scoundrels Who Built Our Electronic Age
    • By: Derek Cheung, Eric Brach
    • Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
    • Length: 14 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 03-01-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 139 ratings
    • Conquering the Electron offers listeners a true and engaging history of the world of electronics, beginning with the discoveries of static electricity and magnetism and ending with the creation of the smartphone and the iPad....

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    • The 25 Most Powerful Inventions in the History of Literature
    • By: Angus Fletcher
    • Narrated by: Jacques Roy
    • Length: 15 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 03-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 114 ratings
    • Literature is a technology like any other. And the writers we revere - from Homer, Shakespeare, Austen, and others - each made a unique technical breakthrough that can be viewed as both a narrative and neuroscientific advancement....

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    • How Humans and Matter Transformed One Another
    • By: Ainissa Ramirez
    • Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
    • Length: 7 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 04-07-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 437 ratings
    • In The Alchemy of Us, scientist and science writer Ainissa Ramirez examines eight inventions - clocks, steel rails, copper communication cables, photographic film, light bulbs, hard disks, scientific labware, and silicon chips - and reveals how they shaped the human experience....

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    • The Remarkable Story of the Inventor Whose Firearms Changed the World
    • By: Nathan Gorenstein
    • Narrated by: Michael David Axtell
    • Length: 9 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 05-25-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 278 ratings
    • Few people are aware that John Moses Browning - a tall, humble, cerebral man born in 1855 and raised as a Mormon in the American West - was the mind behind many of the world-changing firearms that dominated more than a century of conflict....

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    • By: Tim Harford
    • Narrated by: Roger Davis
    • Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 08-29-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 357 ratings
    • This audiobook paints an epic picture of change in an intimate way by telling the stories of the tools, people, and ideas that had far-reaching consequences for all of us....

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    • How I Invented the Personal Computer and Had Fun Along the Way
    • By: Steve Wozniak, Gina Smith
    • Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
    • Length: 9 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 12-01-06
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 3,660 ratings
    • The mastermind behind Apple sheds his low profile and steps forward to tell his story for the first time....

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    • The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin
    • By: Professor H.W. Brands
    • Narrated by: H.W. Brands
    • Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 08-14-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 137 ratings
    • This course examines the life of Franklin and his influence on both American and world history....

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    • The Honest Guide to Profitable Inventing
    • By: Warren Tuttle, Jeffrey A. Mangus
    • Narrated by: Warren Tuttle
    • Length: 6 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 03-23-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 37 ratings
    • Inventor Confidential will show them where to best spend their hard-earned money to maximize their odds for success....

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    • The Battle for the Airwaves and the Birth of the Communications Age
    • By: Scott Woolley
    • Narrated by: Stephen Hoye
    • Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 04-26-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 86 ratings
    • The astonishing story of America's airwaves and the two friends - one a media mogul, the other a famous inventor - who made them available to us....

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    • Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and the Race to Electrify the World
    • By: Jill Jonnes
    • Narrated by: Chris Sorensen
    • Length: 16 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 01-31-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 290 ratings
    • In the final decades of the 19th century, three brilliant and visionary titans of America's Gilded Age battled as each vied to create a vast and powerful electrical empire....

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