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Modern engineering marvelsZuchora-Walske, Christine
Summary: Bionic eyes are a Modern Engineering Marvel! In this engaging title, readers will explore the history of bionic eyes from early attempts to use electricity to aid vision to the development of computer chips that led to eye and brain implants. Mark Humayun and his development of the bionic eye implant is featured, and colorful infographics show eye anatomy and how implants work. See the future...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Checkerboard Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 660.6 ZUCWallace, Randall.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tyndale House Publishers 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WALHockfield, Susan
Summary: Outlines the next technology revolution and how it will change human life, drawing on the latest discoveries in biology and engineering to profile such innovations as computer-engineered crops, protein-based water filters, and cancer-detecting nanoparticles.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2019
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Summary: A century ago, discoveries in physics came together with engineering to produce an array of astonishing new technologies: radios, telephones, televisions, aircraft, radar, nuclear power, computers, the Internet, and a host of still-evolving digital tools. These technologies so radically reshaped our world that we can no longer conceive of life without them. Today, the world's population is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 660.6 HOCLatta, Sara L
Summary: "Meet scientists who are on the verge of breakthroughs in biomedical engineering. From encouraging the body to regenerate damaged bone and muscle tissue to re-routing visual stimuli to the brain to help blind people see, these discoveries will change medicine radically."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twenty-First Century Books 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 610.28 LATPiore, Adam
Summary: A tour of the current revolution in human augmentation explores how the world's most innovative engineers are helping people repair traumatic injuries while transcending physical and mental limitations.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 612 PIOWallace, Randall.
Summary: A young doctor with an amazing gift for surgery abandons it all when he cannot save a young woman at the scene of a fatal car accident. He shuns the operating room until the owner of a biomedical engineering company pursues him to help develop a surgical tool. There is an urgency behind her work and somehow he must find the courage to trust his gift again.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2012