Roma has given talks to thousands at universities, schools and organisations around the world, including TEDx. It is this notion that forms the core of Roma Agrawal’s non-fictional examination of the engineering fundamentals behind the physical world we live in today. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions.

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When it comes to communicating the stakes involved in engineering, one could hardly do better than her description of a heart-lung patient, the beneficiary of 4,000 years of evolving pump design, asleep on the table, her heart and lungs removed so the surgeon can see the back of her ribcage.In Nuts and Bolts, award-winning Shard engineer and broadcaster Roma Agrawal deconstructs our most complex feats of engineering into seven fundamental inventions: the nail, spring, wheel, lens, magnet, string and pump. Tracing the surprising journeys of each invention through the millennia, Roma reveals how handmade Roman nails led to modern skyscrapers, how the potter's wheel enabledspace exploration, and how humble lenses helped her conceive a child against the odds.

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Together, they have enabled humanity to see the invisible, build the spectacular, communicate across vast distances, and even escape our planet. The idea that small and simple things can be big and complex things in disguise is one that’s fascinated novelists for centuries. Roma Agrawal, a structural engineer, cut her teeth on the Northumbria University bridge in Newcastle and is best known for her work on The Shard.The chapter on springs pulls off the same deeply satisfying trick, showing step by step how the science behind the unfeasibly sophisticated Mongolian bow (bark, sinew, wood, bone, over a year of construction and drying time and a range half as far again as the English longbow) contributed to the design of architectural dampeners that reduce noise and vibration levels and make our cities compact, pleasant places to live.

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In her new book Nuts and Bolts Seven Small Inventions That Changed the World (in a Big Way), structural engineer Roma Agrawal identifies and examines the seven of most basic building blocks of engineering that have shaped the modern world: the nail, the wheel, the spring, the lens, the magnet, the string, and the pump. Als Versandart wählen wir immer eine schnelle Option (in Deutschland Brief oder DHL-Paket, ins Ausland Warenpost oder DHL-Paket). Seiten Buch ist in einem sehr guten Zustand, Papier in sehr gutem Zustand, Text in englischer und deutscher Sprache.Another of her subjects – string – helped in a similar way, although this was a technology we could entangle and wind to bind a shard of flint to an axe handle, or adapt into products as diverse as clothing and guitar strings.