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The Backroom Boys
Francis Spufford
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Description for The Backroom Boys
Paperback. 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. Num Pages: 272 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DB; BG; PDZ; TB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 127 x 20. Weight in Grams: 260.
A brilliant, beautiful account of how British boffins triumphed across the decades in creating everything from computer games to Martian landers.
The 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.
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, 'Backroom Boys' tells the bittersweet story of how one country lost its industrial tradition and got back ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Faber and Faber United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780571214976
SKU
V9780571214976
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-25
About Francis Spufford
Francis Spufford is the author of five highly-praised works of non-fiction, most frequently described by reviewers as either 'bizarre' or 'brilliant', and usually as both. His debut novel Golden Hill won the Costa First Novel Award, the RSL Ondaatje Prize, the Desmond Elliott Prize, and was shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction, the Rathbones Folio Prize, the ... Read more
Reviews for The Backroom Boys
'A must for every British Christmas stocking.' John Carey; 'Unputdownable... the man writes like a dream - informed, fresh, racy prose.' Guardian