Download or read book The Rocketbelt Caper written by Paul Brown and published by Superelastic. This book was released on 2012-08-07 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A True Tale of Invention, Obsession and Murder. When three men set out on a quest to build a real-life Buck Rogers-style flying machine, their obsession with the Rocketbelt 2000 shattered their friendship and set in motion an astonishing chain of events involving theft, deception, assault, a bizarre kidnapping, a ten million dollar lawsuit and a horrifically brutal murder.
Download or read book Sins Dyed in Blood written by Paul Brown and published by Superelastic. This book was released on 2015-08-14 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edward Robinson was a British pirate who sailed with Blackbeard during the Golden Age of Piracy in the early 1700s. Born in Newcastle upon Tyne, Robinson crossed the Atlantic to the Caribbean and the Americas. In 1718, he was captured and sentenced to death by hanging in Charleston, South Carolina. But was he really a murderous sea-robber, and did he deserve his brutal fate?
Download or read book The Great American Jet Pack written by Steve Lehto and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2013-05-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing the remarkable history of a certain kind of flying machine—from the rocket belt to the jet belt to the flying platform and all the way to Yves Rossy's 21st-century free flights using a jet-powered wing—this historical account delves into the technology that made these devices possible and the reasons why they never became commercial successes on a mass scale. These individual lift devices, as they were blandly labeled by the government men who financed much of their development, answered man's desire to simply step outside and take flight. No runways, no wings, no pilot's license were required. But the history of the jet pack did not follow its expected trajectory and the devices that were thought to become as commonplace as cars have instead become one of the most overpromised technologies of all time. This fascinating account profiles the inventors and pilots, the hucksters and cheats, and the businessmen and soldiers who were involved with the machines, and it tells a great American story of a technology whose promise may yet, one day, come to fruition.
Download or read book From A Blood Red Sea The Last Voyage of Daniel Collins written by Paul Brown and published by Superelastic. This book was released on 2017-03-10 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Jetpack Dreams written by Mac Montandon and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2008-10-28 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jetpack Dreams chronicles the colorful pop history and science of that most amazing and mysterious of machines, the jetpack. While exploring our collective fascination with flight, the tale takes readers from the first flimsy, shoulder-mounted wings to Bill Suitor's 1984 Olympic flight in front of billions of viewers around the world; from a gruesome jetpack-driven murder in Houston in the mid-1990s to the secret laboratories and government facilities of today. Journalist Mac Montandon also explores Hollywood's fascination with the subject, from the 1949 serial King of the Rocket Men to Lost in Space, The Jetsons and The Rocketeer to the cultural jetpack phenomenon represented by Buck Rogers, James Bond, and Boba Fett. He travels the world to meet jetpack enthusiasts who are readying their own personal flying machines for takeoff. Ultimately, it's the search for an answer to two simple questions: Where is the jetpack that was promised to him, and to all of us, years ago? And if it's out there, can he catch a ride?
Download or read book Jonny Kennedy written by Roger Stutter and published by Tonto Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jonny Kennedy was the star of the Emmy-award winning documentary The Boy Whose Skin Fell Off. This is his moving, honest and uplifting story.
Download or read book Ten Billion Tomorrows written by Brian Clegg and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2015-12-08 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exciting book about real-life technology derived from science fiction and its impact on the world. Science fiction is a vital part of popular culture, influencing the way we all look at the world. TV shows like Star Trek and movies from Forbidden Planet to Inception have influenced scientists to enter the profession and have shaped our futures. Science fiction doesn't set out to predict what will happen - it's far more about how human beings react to "What if?..." - but it is fascinating to see how science fiction and reality sometimes converge, sometimes take extraordinarily different paths. Ten Billion Tomorrows brings to life a whole host of science fiction topics, from the virtual environment of The Matrix and the intelligent computer HAL in 2001, to force fields, ray guns and cyborgs. We discover how science fiction has excited us with possibilities, whether it is Star Trek's holodeck inspiring makers of iconic video games Doom and Quake to create the virtual interactive worlds that transformed gaming, or the strange physics that has made real cloaking devices possible. Mixing remarkable science with the imagination of our greatest science fiction writers, Ten Billion Tomorrows will delight science fiction lovers and popular science devotees alike.
Download or read book Savage Enthusiasm written by Paul Brown and published by Goal Post. This book was released on 2017-09-07 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did we become football fans? Savage Enthusiasm traces the evolution of the football fan from the sport's earliest origins right up to the present day, exploring how football became the world's most popular spectator sport, and why it became the undisputed game of the people.
Download or read book Johnny Lonely written by Pete Tanton and published by Tonto Books. This book was released on 2007-07 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet Hughie Youngkin, trapped in Southern California's worst ever firestorm, a smalltown loser with nothing but a stolen mariachi outfit and a battered guitar case. His hopes of becoming a rockstar are in ruins and he's beginning to wish he'd never left Big Springs, Alabama. But his home town doesn't understand him, the girl he loved has left, and his overbearing mother chews over his shortcomings with her Hungryman's portions of barbequed beef at Webster's Steakhouse. So Hughie does what any Johnny Lonely would do; he takes off to find his estranged brother and chase the American Dream.
Download or read book Goal Post written by Paul Brown and published by Goal-Post. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an anthology collecting the very best Victorian football writing, covering the birth and development of the world's greatest game, and written by those who were there to witness it.
Download or read book New Scientist written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book New Scientist and Science Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 798 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Where s My Jetpack written by Daniel H. Wilson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC. This book was released on 2007-04-24 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a whimsical look at the science behind the great inventions and technology promised in science fiction films and literature that still do not exist, covering everything from food pills and moon colonies to hoverboards and robot servants.
Download or read book Disco Bloodbath written by James St. James and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dazzling, dizzying descent into New York's downtown club scene, where sex, drugs, and murder were part of everyday experience, in one of the most shocking--and fascinating--true-crime books ever written.
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Pulp Fiction Writers written by Lee Server and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides an introduction to American pulp fiction during the twentieth century with brief author biographies and lists of their works.
Download or read book To Conquer the Air written by James Tobin and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2003 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on extraordinary research in the rich archives of American aviation, and written by one of the nation's most gifted narrative historians, "To Conquer the Air" brings to life one of history's most exciting contests.
Download or read book All with Smiling Faces written by Paul Brown and published by Goal-Post. This book was released on 2014-09 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did Newcastle become United? When was the club formed, and where did it play before moving to St James' Park? Who were the men who built the club, and how did they turn it into the most successful club in the country? What was it like to support Newcastle in the Victorian and Edwardian eras, and why has the bond between the club and its fans remained so strong? All With Smiling Faces takes a wander through the early history of Newcastle United to discover how the club came to mean so much to so many. Covering the club's first 30 years, from its foundation as Stanley FC in 1881 to its triumphant FA Cup win in 1910, the book visits the grounds, meets the players, mingles with the fans, and relives the matches that helped make Newcastle United.
