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Bill Bryson's Appliance of Science
- By: Bill Bryson
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Feb 27 201816 mins
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Feb 27 201822 mins
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Feb 27 201814 mins
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- james walker
- 08-07-20
A museum for the ears
Micro biographies and fun-filled facts about scientific inventions with a human story - often featuring unintended discoveries by ordinary people. The curators are very good at visualising the artefacts and Bryson does what Bryson does best - be his inquisitive good self. My favourite description was "it looks like a toaster that swallowed a donut". You'll have to listen to discover what it was...
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- Amazon Customer
- 11-06-20
For those already interested in inventions
I personally enjoyed it thoroughly, and it's whet my appetite to go visit the Science Museum once this pandemic clears up.
But the subjects scrutinised are a wide ranging, eclectic collection of gizmos. If that description doesn't already fall into your interests, I'm not sure if this collection is for you.
Other than that - I cannot fault the narration, nor the experts' input.
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- Robert
- 08-01-21
nice sized bites of interesting information.
love Bill Bryson books... this one described interesting items with the usual humour that we have come to expect from his books.
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- Rachel
- 30-06-20
interesting
an interesting short five chapters ,even though I didn't understand all of it I did see the relevance to our everyday lives
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- Make inu
- 19-10-19
Very interesting
Not much more to say than the title sorry, so sprouts, potatoes, carrots to fill the requiremt
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- K. Mahbubani
- 27-09-20
a museum in your ears indeed
an intriguing review and history of some typically overlooked objects at a number of museums
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- Amazon Customer
- 02-06-23
interesting throughout.
a little bit of history and knowledge of a little bit of everything. right up my street.
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- Heisenberg
- 12-03-18
Good exploration of objects in the Science museum.
Similar in style to Neil MacGregor's History of the world in 100 objects, which examined artefacts in the British museum, this is equally entertaining. Led by the ever listenable Bill Bryson, these examine and explain objects in the Science museum. Shame there are currently only five episodes - more please audible!!
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- Steven Waite
- 04-03-21
Very interesting.
Some really interesting information in these episodes.
Although I must admit, I do find Bill Bryson's voice a little dull.
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- Sarah
- 19-07-20
fascinating stuff
I know bill from his travelling books, but this was totally different. once I got used to the fact that he didnt sound the way I always imagined I thoroughly enjoyed it
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