[clug] [OT] book recommendations?
Luke Mewburn
lukem-clug at mewburn.net
Thu Dec 26 05:22:28 UTC 2019
On 19-12-23 16:40, Mike Carden via linux wrote:
| > Does anyone have favourites or recommendations for books of this type?
| >
|
| Well, it's not Rocket Science, but... wait, no... actually it is. The
| brilliant 'Ignition' is freely available these days and is an informative
| and at times hilarious history of the development of rocket engines, the
| incredibly interesting fuels that make them possible and the at times
| lunatic experimenters trying to figure out what works:
|
| https://library.sciencemadness.org/library/books/ignition.pdf
|
| I think that Ignition is perhaps one of the inspirations for Derek Lowe's
| brilliant series of articles under the title of 'Things I won't work with'.
| Here's just one example from a search engine hit:
|
| https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2010/02/23/things_i_wont_work_with_dioxygen_difluoride
I read about "Ignition" in this thread on Ars Technica, and came across
the "Things I won't work with" blog that Mike mentioned via
the comments section.
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/02/the-funniest-most-accessible-book-on-rocket-science-is-being-reissued
Another funny article is "Sand won't save you this time":
http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2008/02/26/sand_wont_save_you_this_time
Luke.
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