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Book Review - The Geek Atlas: 128 Places Where Science and Technology Come Alive

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mouser:
From a review on cnet news:

"The Geek Atlas: 128 Places Where Science and Technology Come Alive" by John Graham-Cumming could be the answer to the yearly Father's Day gift dilemma.

(Although I know a lot of women who would love this book, too.)

Graham-Cumming's book is not of the tacky so-and-so-slept-here variety, but a compendium of locations of true worth in the history of science and tech breakthroughs.

(Credit: O'Reilly Media)The book, which is organized by country, includes latitudes and longitudes for GPS devices, and info like whether a historical site is free or available for a price. It's heavy on U.K. and U.S. sites (it lists the U.S. sites by state) but does attempt to cover the entire world.

Some of the recommendations are little-known science museums that happen to have one or two holdings of great worth, but many are a bit more unusual and creative. Graham-Cumming includes things like the descendant of Isaac Newton's apple tree at Trinity College in Cambridge, England, and the first bridge ever constructed from cast iron which visitors can still walk across at the Severn River in Ironbridge, England.

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http://news.cnet.com/8301-17912_3-10251944-72.html





Direct link to book info: http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596523206/

housetier:
I jsut have to say this: I wonder if c-base is mentioned as well, because that's where science from the future meets technology from the past (from science's point of view at least) :)

The number of places has a geek flair as well: 128 is 2^7.

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