Invention Industry

What do the world’s superpowers get up to in their secret underground bunkers? UNDERGROUND BASES: Subterranean Military Facilities and the Cities Beneath Our Feet, by novelists, filmmakers and independent researchers James Morcan & Lance Morcan, details confirmed and rumored underground facilities in the United States and around the world. Containing rare photographic evidence throughout as well as little-known quotes from key government figures, it makes a compelling case for there being an enormous hidden world under the Earth's surface. The Morcans speculate that the covert underground...

Washington Post's "10 Leadership Books to Watch for in 2019," Adam Grant's "19 New Leadership Books to Read in 2019," Inc.com's "10 Business Books You Need to Read in 2019," Business Insider's "14 Books Everyone Will Be Reading in 2019" This program includes a prologue and introduction read by...

Discover what has been hidden from you... Introducing the boxed set containing the first five books in The Underground Knowledge Series by James Morcan & Lance Morcan – in full and at a discounted price. THE UNDERGROUND KNOWLEDGE SERIES I-V comprises the following books: GENIUS INTELLIGENCE ANTIGRAVITY PROPULSION MEDICAL INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX THE CATCHER IN THE RYE ENIGMA INTERNATIONAL BANKSTER$ Garnering evidence from court cases, declassified government files and media reports, The Underground Knowledge Series discloses little-known facts on a wide range of topics. GENIUS INTELLIGENCE: ...

Welcome to the 2024 edition! You have a wonderful idea and want to make it real. What are the first steps? Many forces act on you to slow you down, but your imagination, creativity, and passion need to overcome these constraints. INTENSE DESIGN presents a time in history when great ideas became great products such as the SR-71 Blackbird. How did an organization shrug off all the problems associated with Mach 3 travel? INTENSE DESIGN considers the historical moderation and guidance of a successful design operation as well as providing practical advice for making designs come to reality. This...

For most of human existence, people lived in a somewhat similar fashion. Everything that has been produced, from food and raw materials to clothing and other finished products, has been done either solely by hand or with some help of animal power. This was the same across the eras and throughout the world, no matter how advanced or backward the various civilizations were. Yet, our lives today couldn’t be more different.

Award-winning author William Rosen tells the story of the men responsible for the Industrial Revolution and the machine that drove it: the steam engine.

Since the 1930s, the scale of scientific endeavors has grown exponentially. The birth of Big Science can be traced to Berkeley, California, nearly nine decades ago, when a resourceful young scientist pondered his new invention and declared, "I'm going to be famous!" Ernest Orlando Lawrence's cyclotron would revolutionize nuclear physics, but that was only the beginning of its impact.This is the incredible story of how one invention changed the world and of the man principally responsible for it all. Michael Hiltzik tells the riveting full story here for the first time.

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, “one of the year’s most relevant and revelatory business...

The world is never finished catching up with Vaclav Smil. In his latest and perhaps most digestible book, Invention and Innovation, the prolific author—a favorite of Bill Gates—pens an insightful and fact-filled jaunt through the history of human invention. Impatient with the hype that so often accompanies innovation, Smil offers in this book a clear-eyed corrective to the overpromises that accompany everything from new cures for diseases to AI.

In the early 20th century, Thomas Midgley Jr. was celebrated as a brilliant problem-solver whose chemical formulas promised a safer, more efficient future. The Man Who Broke the Sky provides a long, detailed, and politically neutral look at the life of an engineer who held over a hundred patents and aimed to solve the era's most pressing industrial challenges. This biography meticulously traces the rise and fall of a man whose work would eventually cast long, unforeseen shadows over the entire planet. Discover the story behind the discovery of tetraethyl lead, the "silent solution" that ...

The Orphan Conspiracies: 29 Conspiracy Theories from The Orphan Trilogy, written by novelists and filmmakers James Morcan & Lance Morcan with a foreword by leading scientist Dr. Takaaki Musha and an afterword by renowned historian Professor Richard Spence, contains hard-to-find knowledge. This non-fiction book is based on the political, scientific and financial insights in the Morcans' bestselling international thriller series The Orphan Trilogy (novels that merge fact with fiction by incorporating real-world theories on public figures and major organizations). Now the authors provide ...

The Secret Histories of Fashion and Fabric From the silk routes of Asia to the sweatshops of modern cities, fabric has always woven power into the human story. Every thread carries a history — of hands that spun, merchants who traded, empires that rose and fell, and revolutions stitched in seams. Threads of Time unravels these hidden legacies, revealing how what we wear has shaped who we are. Across twenty cinematic chapters, journey through the shimmering paths of silk and the dark mills of cotton; trace indigo’s deep blue through empires and rebellions; feel the coarse denim that ...

History wasn’t made in the throne room; it was cooked in a lab. In 'Gunpowder', Owen Briggs traces the explosive lineage of civilization’s most transformative material—from 9th-century Taoist alchemists accidentally optimizing gas expansion to the high-frequency rhythmic violence of the modern internal combustion engine. This isn't a story of kings and conquests, but of 'high-work' energy, saltpeter scavenger economies, and the brutal arithmetic of impact. Discover how the 'occult error' of a failed immortality elixir dismantled the feudal order, turned masonry castles into ...

Elon Musk is undeniably one of the most influential figures of our time. His ventures have shaken industries, and his personality has captured the world’s imagination. But who is the real Elon Musk? Beneath the facade of innovation and genius, is there a layer of controversy and cunning that the public doesn't see? "Elon Musk: World’s Best Conman?" is not an outright accusation but a probing exploration into the controversial aspects of Musk's entrepreneurial tactics and the tumultuous operations within his companies, particularly Tesla. This book dives deep into Musk's public persona ...

In the 1860s, the Victorian obsession with billiards was pushing the African elephant to the brink of extinction. The solution didn't come from a conservationist, but from a tinkerer who pressed out the world’s first plastic to replace ivory. In 'Plastics', Owen Briggs takes readers on a white-knuckle ride through the secret history of the material that saved the natural world before slowly consuming it. This isn't a dry chemistry lecture; it’s a vivid, narrative biography of the substances that built the modern age. From the 'Nylon Riots' and the tragic genius of Wallace Carothers to ...

Dyson has become a byword for great design, brilliant invention and global success. Now, James Dyson, the entrepreneur who made it all happen, tells his remarkable and inspirational story in Invention: A Life of Learning through Failure. 'By continually challenging ourselves, investing in the...

From one of the world's leading economists, a sweeping new history of the twentieth century - a century that left us vastly richer, yet still profoundly dissatisfied. Before 1870, most people lived in dire poverty, the benefits of the slow crawl of invention continually offset by a growing...

Flashpoint: Kerosene, Gasoline, and the 100-Year War Against Vapor is a meticulously researched and engaging exploration of the invisible engineering that powers our modern world. The narrative begins in the late 19th century, a time when kerosene illuminated homes as a "familiar friend" before the volatile demands of the internal combustion engine changed everything. This industrial history of oil takes readers from the messy era of funnels and hardware store drums to the revolutionary invention of Sylvanus Bowser’s first hand-driven fuel pump in 1905. The book delves into the "...

In a city of invention, will ambition outpace the heart? Seventeen-year-old Rhett Steamrun has always wanted more—more than the orphanage walls, more than scavenging and tinkering with scraps, and more than merely surviving. Gifted with an extraordinary mechanical talent, Rhett travels to Kingsland, the booming center of industrial innovation, where opportunity, fame, and fortune seem almost within reach. But Kingsland has plans of its own. Soon after arriving, Rhett is robbed and left penniless, forcing him to rely on his wits and his inventions to survive. His search for answers draws ...

The centuries that rewired how we think — and the century that rewired how we live. From Galileo's telescope to Watt's steam engine. Two manuscripts in one book: The Scientific Revolution: An Enthralling Exploration of Discoveries That Changed the World Forever Industrial Revolution: An Enthralling Look at How Machines and Factories Changed Our World Two revolutions. One modern world. This 2-in-1 book tells the linked story of the two upheavals that built the world you live in. The first changed how humanity understands reality. The second changed how humanity lives, works, and moves. ...