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$1.99 | How to Invent Everything by Ryan North (Kindle ebook)

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An NPR Best Book of 2018

"How to Invent Everything is such a cool book. It's essential reading for anyone who needs to duplicate an industrial civilization quickly." --Randall Munroe, xkcd creator and New York Times-bestselling author of What If?

The only book you need if you're going back in time

What would you do if a time machine hurled you thousands of years into the past. . . and then broke? How would you survive? Could you improve on humanity's original timeline? And how hard would it be to domesticate a giant wombat?

With this book as your guide, you'll survive--and thrive--in any period in Earth's history. Bestselling author and time-travel enthusiast Ryan North shows you how to invent all the modern conveniences we take for granted--from first principles. This illustrated manual contains all the science, engineering, art, philosophy, facts, and figures required for even the most clueless time traveler to build a civilization from the ground up. Deeply researched, irreverent, and significantly more fun than being eaten by a saber-toothed tiger, How to Invent Everything will make you smarter, more competent, and completely prepared to become the most important and influential person ever. You're about to make history. . . better.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07B2LNVBY
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It's an ok book sort of blows over specifics and mostly just covers high level physics and chemistry when it gets to the more complex stuff. It has the same tendency of other books like this where the basic stuff like how to make glass or how to make charcoal is very detailed step by step on construction of the heating source and step by step procedure but then when you're getting to motor or generator design it just covers the high level stuff like how magnetic forces induce current or torque depending on direction and a rough design but it doesn't cover things like salience or rotor design or flux manipulation. I'm not talking about summarizing the last 300 years of AC motor design in a few pages but it's clear when the author is getting out of his depth on the later topics
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