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Backroom Boys: The Secret Return of the British Boffin Main edition
Spufford, Francis (author)
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Backroom Boys: The Secret Return of the British Boffin Main edition
Spufford, Francis (author)
Offers an account of how British boffins triumphed across the decades in creating everything from computer games to Martian landers. This book contains chapters on the Beagle II, Elite - the 80s computer game, the Blue Streak missile, Concorde, mobile phone technology and the Human Genome Project, among others.
272 pages, Illustrations
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | September 2, 2004 |
| ISBN13 | 9780571214976 |
| Publishers | Faber & Faber |
| Pages | 272 |
| Dimensions | 127 × 198 × 18 mm · 224 g |
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