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Deconstructing structures: making engineering and innovation come to life

08 Mar 2023 Jess Wade

Jess Wade reviews Nuts and Bolts: Seven Small Inventions That Changed the World (in a Big Way) by Roma Agrawal

Hand processing a telegram
Long legacy The Indian telegraph service had simple engineering components, and lasted 163 years. Here, an employee at the central telegraph office in Mumbai, India, processes a telegram on the last day of the service in 2013. (Courtesy: Rafiq Maqbool/AP/Shutterstock)
String, nail, magnet, pump: the contents of Nuts and Bolts: Seven Small Inventions That Changed the

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Jess Wade is a contributing columnist for Physics World and a lecturer and research fellow at Imperial College London, UK
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