Just finishing up 12 Seconds of Silence: How a Team of Inventors, Tinkerers, and Spies Took Down a Nazi Superweapon. It's the history of the proximity fuze, and gives a good understanding of the personalities and invention process during wartime. What I found really captivating is how physicists and other top scientists in the 1930's and 1940's had to be machinists, electronic engineers, chemists, materials experts, lobbyists, politicians and part time soldiers just to get the attention of military brass and pull them out of their old ways of thinking. But most of all they had to be project managers before the term was even popular. Also fascinating to learn how critical intelligence from brave women in occupied France was shaping the course of the war unbeknownst to the scientists working on the project. The great lesson for all of us is that these men treated failure as just another form of education, not a brick wall you couldn't pass through or around.
Great read—although I have to admit I started it on Audible and am finishing it in Kobo as I found the narrator's voice unsuitable for the topic. You may think differently, but that is always a risk for me with Audible—even after listening to the sample.
https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B07T4J3Z3V/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_EZB03D44DJARFC7FRMC7
Great read—although I have to admit I started it on Audible and am finishing it in Kobo as I found the narrator's voice unsuitable for the topic. You may think differently, but that is always a risk for me with Audible—even after listening to the sample.
https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B07T4J3Z3V/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_EZB03D44DJARFC7FRMC7
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