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Nuts and Bolts: Seven Small Inventions That Changed the World in a Big Way

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Shortlisted for the 2023 Royal Society Science Book Prize


A structural engineer examines the seven most basic building blocks of engineering that have shaped the modern world.

Some of humanity's mightiest engineering achievements are small in scale-and, without them, the complex machinery on which our modern world runs would not exist. In Nuts and Bolts, structural engineer Roma Agrawal examines seven of these extraordinary elements: the nail, the wheel, the spring, the magnet, the lens, the...