The Backroom Boys
- ISBN: 0571214967
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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, this book tells the bitter-sweet story of how one country lost its industrial tradition and got something back. Sad, inspiring, funny and ultimately triumphant, it follows the technologists whose work kept Concorde flying, created the computer game, conquered the mobile phone business, saved the human genome for the human race and who sent the Beagle 2 probe to burrow the cinnamon sands of Mars.
- Pages: 256
- Format: Hardback
- Genre: Science and Nature
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