Empire of the Sum: The Rise and Reign of the Pocket Calculator
by Keith Houston
Do you love your pocket calculator? You should, but maybe you don’t know why. This witty and scholarly (do those words really go together?) book is as much mathematical as social history.
Figoni on Delahaye
by Richard Adatto and Diana Meredith
Fluid lines, a sense of motion, brilliant metallic colors, coachwork that might take 2000 hours to complete—these are the sort of select cars showcased in this book whose release coincides with the centenary of the firm’s founding.
Rails Around the World Two Centuries of Trains and Locomotives
by Brian Solomon
You’d be hard-pressed to encounter working steam locos next to record-breaking electric trains in real life so a book is the way to behold all that rich history. Just think: Solomon could have looked thousands of years back and found tracked transport.
Il Mio Drake
by Lycia Mezzacappa
The Barber of Maranello tells all! Well, no, but the book does reveal an unknown side of the notoriously private Enzo Ferrari, not least because they saw each other six mornings a week.
George Westinghouse, Powering the World
by William R. Huber
His teachers thought he was mentally disabled. He quit college, but he received his first patent at the age of 19. Hundreds more would follow and he became a captain of industry, his 60-odd companies providing paychecks to tens of thousands and changing the world.
Powered by Gibson—From F1 to Le Mans
by Mark Cole
The rubber has barely washed off the roads from one year’s Le Mans 24 Hours and the clock at Gibson is already counting down the seconds to the next one. That’s how it goes when you’re the world’s leading manufacturer of high performance LMP1 and LMP2 powertrains.
Ferrari: Gli anni d’oro/The Golden Years
by Leonardo Acerbi
Not your same old/same old cheerleading exercise on the occasion of an anniversary. Besides . . . Franco Villani’s period photos that have not been seen in print before. A very impressive book!
Eastern Air Lines: A History, 1926–1991
by David Lee Russell
Once upon a time Eastern was the most profitable airline in the postwar era. It became Walt Disney World’s official airline. Then: strikes, fuel crisis, deregulation, management shake-ups—bankruptcy.
Béla Barényi: Pioneer of Passive Safety at Mercedes-Benz
by Harry Niemann
Born into the age of the horseless carriage young Barényi had a knack for engineering and an uncommonly acute awareness of unintended safety hazards—so he built himself a racing sleigh with a padded steering wheel! One of his many innovations may well have saved your life.
SR-71 Blackbird: Lockheed’s Ultimate Spy Plane
by David Doyle
Do a literature search and you’d think the Blackbird must be hot stuff: every year more is being published about it but the thing retired long ago. Just about all those books play nicely with this one because it has something the others don’t.
Roger Williamson: A Collection of Memories from Friends, Mechanics, Rivals and Family
by K. Guthrie & D. Banks
The F1 cars of Williamson’s era were getting faster and faster but neither the tracks nor safety consciousness evolved at pace. His horrific death in a fire at the 1973 Dutch GP is a chilling example of Murphy’s Law at full tilt.
Le Mans 100, A Century at the World’s Greatest Endurance Race
by Glen Smale
The 24 Hours of Le Mans is one of the three legs of the Triple Crown of Motorsports. What makes it so special? Smale has wrangled each and every race up to the 2023 running into the pages of one concise, nicely illustrated, and well-designed book.
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