The Further Inventions of DaedalusDavid E. H. Jones
The Further Inventions of Daedalus
by David E. H. Jones · first published 1999
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…column in New Scientist and Nature in years gone by. To those of you who are fans of Randall Munroe's What-If I heartily recommend the out of print classics The Inventions of Daedalus and its sequel The Further Inventions of Daedalus which are in a losely similar vein. Last I heard (a few years ago) he was still alive and a documentary largely about his ingenious "perpetual motion" machines was made. I hope he's still hearty but…
on “The stability of the bicycle (2006)” ↗Some of these columns were collected in book form. The Inventions of Daedalus: http://www.amazon.com/Inventions-Daedalus-Compendium-Plausib... The Further Inventions of Daedalus: http://www.amazon.com/Further-Inventions-Daedalus-Compendium...
on “Road Unpricing” ↗…writing his Daedalus columns for New Scientist in 1964 and continued there for 24 years before transferring to Nature and the Guardian. The columns were compiled in The Inventions of Daedalus (1982) and The Further Inventions of Daedalus (1999), both illustrated by his own cartoons. David Jones produced this cartoon to illustrate his ‘invention’ of audible vertigo. He captioned it: ‘Vertigosound could clear public buildings humanely…
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