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How much technology have you taken for granted today? It is human nature to make things and to apply knowledge in ingenious ways to survive and to make life easier. From renewable energy to entertainment streaming and electric vehicles to gene-editing, technology shapes our world. The Technology...

Helicopters and airplanes aren’t the only aircraft launching to the skies anymore. Thousands of recreational drones are launched every day. Whether owners make their own drones or buy them, recreational drone use shows no signs of slowing down. Young listeners will learn all about these UAVs and the rules those flying them need to follow.

What if the defining geopolitical story of the next decade isn't really about technology at all? Behind artificial intelligence, electric vehicles, smartphones, semiconductors, advanced weapons, renewable energy, and much of modern life lies a surprisingly old-fashioned problem: rocks. More specifically, critical minerals and rare earth elements. In this newly updated edition of The Critical Commanding Heights, Matthew H. Newell explores the increasingly important struggle for the raw materials that power the global technological economy. Written for curious readers without a technical ...

The Titanic sinking is one of the most memorable tragedies in history. Find out what really happened when the doomed ship sank on April 15, 1912.

This audiobook tells the story of Henry Ford, along with his invention, the popular Model T automobile.

Listen to the story of how Wilbur and Orville Wright developed, tested, and successfully flew the first powered airplane.

The Ultimate Car Tuning Playbook Car Tuning 2.0 — Second Edition Build Faster. Handle Better. Drive Smarter. Stop buying parts. Start building a car. The Ultimate Car Tuning Playbook takes a systems-engineering approach to automotive tuning. Instead of chasing horsepower numbers or aftermarket trends, it shows you what to modify, when to modify it, why it matters, and whether it's worth the money. Built around Car Tuning 2.0, this second edition combines performance engineering, diagnostics, vehicle dynamics, ECU/TCU tuning, data logging, reliability, budgeting, and real-world build ...

Explore the lives and achievements of the Wright Brothers.

You’ve seen the cameras beside the road. What happens after you drive past? A camera on a pole. A car passing through an intersection. A license plate you rarely think about. What connects those ordinary things to a criminal investigation, a missing-person search, or a debate about who gets to track your movements? Flock Safety Cameras: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of License Plate Surveillance takes you inside that debate without asking you to choose a side before you understand the technology. In this plain-language nonfiction guide, Davina Gregory explores how automated license ...

What if the most important technology story of the next decade isn't really about technology at all? Behind artificial intelligence, electric vehicles, smartphones, semiconductors, advanced weapons, clean energy, and much of modern life lies a surprisingly old-fashioned problem: rocks. More specifically, critical minerals and rare earth elements. In this newly updated edition of The Tech Commanding Heights, Matthew H. Newell explores the increasingly consequential battle for the materials that make the modern technological economy possible. Written for the curious non-expert, the book ...

Feed the Dragon is a detailed study of China's battery mineral operations in Africa. The U.S. and China are chief rivals in the international system and part of this competition includes the race for increasingly limited critical minerals. Africa, once the preserve of Western colonial powers, is open for business and their raw materials are on the table for discussion. To date, China has engaged the African nations in a persistent and comprehensive manner to secure their mineral needs in order to feed their growing battery and electric vehicle industries. While there are serious challenges ...

🔋 The Future of Energy: Technologies and Trends Driving Disruption By Jason Schenker — #1 Bestselling Author and Bloomberg-Ranked Energy Forecaster The future of energy is not a debate — it's a disruption already underway. In The Future of Energy, economist and futurist Jason Schenker delivers a data-driven, no-hype exploration of the seismic shifts transforming global energy. From oil and natural gas to renewables, electric vehicles, and blockchain, this book examines the critical drivers of change—technological, economic, environmental, and geopolitical. ✔️ Understand why U.S...

The book that finally makes hypersonic propulsion readable by showing the real physics behind the speed instead of the marketing. Every week another **hypersonic** headline lands, and the same words hide very different engineering realities. A country announces Mach 6. A missile is declared operational. A passenger service is promised. But a press release and a demonstrated flight are two very different things, and without a framework any reader is at the mercy of whoever wrote the headline. This book gives you the professional reader's toolkit to tell them apart, using the same evidence ...

Your car may have more power, better tires, and a more aggressive suspension—but can its braking system actually handle the way you drive? And if you are thinking about a Big Brake Kit, how do you know whether you really need one? Advanced Brake Systems Playbook takes you beyond the usual advice of "buy bigger brakes" and explains how modern braking systems actually work—from hydraulic pressure and brake torque to friction, weight transfer, thermal management, ABS, ESP, diagnostics, and complete vehicle integration. This is not simply a brake maintenance manual, and it is not a catalog ...

I’m Johnny Vincento, leading Applied physicist of THE TELEPORTATION PROJECT. It is time to bring humanity into a new age. That project is not fiction and it is available for testing by all the nations of the world. In fact, a request to the United Nations was recently made to do just that. Now, I will give out some technologies that are not in existence yet. This means, by bringing the idea alive in the world, showing how it can be created, makes them become created. There are many such devices that I see happening: From frequency towers to lift one's mood, anti gravity waves, an ...

This audiobook uses engaging nonfiction text and hands-on projects to help young listeners explore real-life flying vehicle engineering projects, including the science behind how these vehicles are planned and built.

This audiobook uses engaging nonfiction text and hands-on projects to help young listeners explore real-life rolling vehicle engineering projects, including the science behind how these vehicles are planned and built.

Ghosts in the Sky explores how drones — once science fiction — have become the defining instruments of 21st-century power. From silent killers in remote war zones to consumer quadcopters, agricultural sprayers, delivery bots, and underwater sentinels, drones are reshaping the battlefield, the economy, and everyday life. Written by Thornton D. Barnes — former CIA Special Projects engineer and Area 51 insider — this groundbreaking nonfiction work traces the hidden evolution of unmanned systems. With rare insight into classified programs, wartime deployments, industrial adoption, and ...

ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING FINALIST 2026 LONGLISTED FOR THE 2026 MOORE PRIZE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS WRITING ‘A tale of rapacious colonialism, Cold War spy games, dazzling technical innovation, big business rivalry, big power geopolitics […] an unflinching, landmark work on the nature of...

TELEPORT NEWS, brings you issue #11 in the newest technology for the human race. The "Euro Sky Cabin" for example, is a hydrogen vehicle with a 1500 mile range in the design of a plane on wheels. With spacious open helicopter seating. The Euro Sky Cabin, even sports a pilot cockpit and steering wheel: The ultimate comfort and luxury in cross country travel. This cruiser will come with a home industrial Hoffman Apparatus, run on solar or windmill free energy, to not only fill the tanks, BUT CREATE THE HYDROGEN. TELEPORT NEWS is a mind blowing series to bring the newest science discoveries to...