The Backroom Boys: The Secret Return of the British Boffin Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

The Backroom Boys: The Secret Return of the British Boffin Book

Britain is the only country in the world to have cancelled its space programme just as it put its first rocket into orbit. Starting with this forgotten episode, this text tells the bitter-sweet story of how one country lost its industrial tradition and got something back. Sad, inspiring, funny and ultimately triumphant, it follows the technologists whose work kept Concorde flying, created the computer game, conquered the mobile-phone business, saved the human genome for the human race and who are now sending the Beagle 2 probe to burrow the cinnamon sands of Mars.Read More

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  • 0571214967
  • 9780571214969
  • Francis Spufford
  • 6 November 2003
  • Faber and Faber
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 250
  • illustrated edition
  • Illustrated
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