

John Graham-Cumming is a wandering programmer who's lived in the UK, California, New York and France.
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128 Places Where Science & Technology Come Alive
Samenvatting
The history of science is all around us, if you know where to look. With this unique traveler's guide, you'll learn about 128 destinations around the world where discoveries in science, mathematics, or technology occurred or is happening now. Travel to Munich to see the world's largest science museum, watch Foucault's pendulum swinging in Paris, ponder a descendant of Newton's apple tree at Trinity College, Cambridge, and more.
Each site in 'The Geek Atlas' focuses on discoveries or inventions, and includes information about the people and the science behind them. Full of interesting photos and illustrations, the book is organized geographically by country (by state within the U.S.), complete with latitudes and longitudes for GPS devices.
Destinations include:
- Bletchley Park in the UK, where the Enigma code was broken
- The Alan Turing Memorial in Manchester, England
- The Horn Antenna in New Jersey, where the Big Bang theory was confirmed
- The National Cryptologic Museum in Fort Meade, Maryland
- The Trinity Test Site in New Mexico, where the first atomic bomb was exploded
- The Joint Genome Institute in Walnut Creek, California
You won't find tedious, third-rate museums, or a tacky plaque stuck to a wall stating that "Professor X slept here." Every site in this book has real scientific, mathematical, or technological interest - places guaranteed to make every geek's heart pound a little faster. Plan a trip with The Geek Atlas and make your own discoveries along the way.
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1. Parkes Radio Telescope, Parkes, Australia
2. Zentralfriedhof, Vienna, Austria
3. Atomium, Brussels, Belgium
4. Baddeck, Nova Scotia, Canada
5. Mendel Museum of Genetics, Brno, Czech Republic
6. Galápagos Islands, Ecuador
7. Airbus, Toulouse, France
8. The Arago Medallions, Paris, France
9. Beaumont-de-Lomagne, France
10. Château du Clos Lucé, Amboise, France
11. Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
12. The Jacquard Museum, Roubaix, France
13. Le Panthéon, Paris, France
14. Millau Viaduct, Millau, France
15. Musée Curie, Paris, France
16. Musée de l'Air et de l'Espace, Le Bourget, France
17. Musée des Arts et Métiers, Paris, France
18. The Eiffel Tower, Paris, France
19. Deutsches Museum, Munich, Germany
20. Peenemünde Historical Technical Information Center, Peenemünde, 21 22. Stadtfriedhof, Göttingen, Germany
23. The Gutenberg Museum, Mainz, Germany
24. Jantar Mantar, Jaipur, India
25. Broom Bridge, Dublin, Ireland
26. Tempio Voltiano, Como, Italy
27. Akashi-Kaiko Bridge, Kobe, Japan
28. Akihabara, Tokyo, Japan
29. The Escher Museum, The Hague, Netherlands
30. Tesla Museum, Belgrade, Serbia
31. Solúcar PS10 Power Station, Sanlúcar la Mayor, Spain
32. CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
33. Historisches Museum Bern, Bern, Switzerland
34. Taipei 101, Taipei, Taiwan
35. 14 India Street, Edinburgh, Scotland
36. Air Defence Radar Museum, RAF Neatishead, England
37. Albury Church, Albury, England
38. Alexander Fleming Laboratory Museum, London, England
39. Anderton Boat Lift, Northwich, England
40. Bletchley Park, Bletchley, England
41. British Airways Flight Training, Hounslow, England
42. Bunhill Fields Cemetery, London, England
43. Down House, Downe, England
44. Edward Jenner Museum, Berkeley, England
45. Elsecar Heritage Centre, Elsecar, England
46. Farnborough Air Sciences Museum, Farnborough, England
47. Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, England
48. Goonhilly Satellite Earth Station, Goonhilly, England
49. Greenwich, London, England
50. Hovercraft Museum, Lee-on-the-Solent, England
51. Jodrell Bank Observatory, Cheshire, England
52. Kelvedon Hatch Nuclear Bunker, Kelvedon Hatch, England
53. Kempton Park Waterworks, Kempton Park, England
54. Lacock Abbey, Wiltshire, England
55. Manchester Science Walk, Manchester, England
56. Museum of the History of Science, Oxford, England
57. Napier University, Edinburgh, Scotland
58. National Museum of Computing, Bletchley, England
59. National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland
60. National Railway Museum, York, England
61. Natural History Museum, London, England
62. Poldhu, Cornwall, England
63. Porthcurno Telegraph Museum, Porthcurno, England
64. Royal College of Surgeons Hunterian Museum, London, England
65. Royal Gunpowder Mills, Waltham Abbey, England
66. Sackville Street Gardens, Manchester, England
67. Sound Mirrors, Dungeness, England
68. SS Great Britain, Bristol, England
69. The Apple Tree, Trinity College, Cambridge, England
70. The Brunel Museum, London, England
71. The Eagle Pub, Cambridge, England
72. The Falkirk Wheel, Falkirk, Scotland
73. The Hunterian Museum, Glasgow, Scotland
74. The Iron Bridge, Ironbridge, England
75. The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London, England
76. The Science Museum, Swindon, England
77. The Science Museum, London, England
78. Thinktank, Birmingham, England
79. Westminster Abbey, London, England
80. Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, Ukraine
81. Aurora Borealis, Fairbanks, AK
82. Trans-Alaska Pipeline Visitor Center, Fox, AK
83. Titan Missile Museum, Sahuarita, AZ
84. 391 San Antonio Road, Mountain View, CA
85. 844 E. Charleston Road, Palo Alto, CA
86. The Computer History Museum, Mountain View, CA
87. Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex, Fort Irwin, CA
88. Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, CA
89. 1 Infinite Loop, Cupertino, CA
90. The HP Garage, Palo Alto, CA
91. U.S. Navy Submarine Force Museum, Groton, CT
92. National Air and Space Museum, Washington, DC
93. National Museum of American History, Washington, DC
94. Kennedy Space Center, Merritt Island, FL
95. Kalaupapa National Historic Park, Molokai, HI
96. Experimental Breeder Reactor No. 1, Arco, ID
97. Fermilab, Batavia, IL
98. MIT Museum, Cambridge, MA
99. Gaithersburg International Latitude Observatory, Gaithersburg, MD
100. National Electronics Museum, Linthicum, MD
101. National Cryptologic Museum, Fort Meade, MD
102. The Henry Ford, Dearborn, MI
103. Gateway Arch, St. Louis, MO
104. Horn Antenna, Holmdel, NJ
105. Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ
106. Trinity Test Site, White Sands Missile Range, NM
107. Very Large Array, Socorro, NM
108. White Sands Missile Range Museum, White Sands Missile Range, NM
109. Atomic Testing Museum, Las Vegas, NV
110. Nevada Test Site, NV
111. Zero G, LasVegas, NV
112 Glenn H. Curtiss Museum, Hammondsport, NY
113. John M. Mossman Lock Collection, New York, NY
114. Sagan Planet Walk, Ithaca, NY
115. Early Television Museum, Hillard, OH
116. NASA Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, OH
117. Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum, McMinnville, OR
118. Joseph Priestley House, Northumberland, PA
119. Arecibo Observatory, Arecibo, Puerto Rico
120. X-10 Graphite Reactor, Oak Ridge, TN
121. Kryptos Sculpture, Langley, VA
122. Shot Tower Historical State Park, Austinville, VA
123. American Museum of Radio and Electricity, Bellingham, WA Information
124. Grand Coulee Dam, Coulee Dam, WA
125. Reber Radio Telescope, Green Bank, WV
126. The Greenbrier, White Sulphur Springs, WV
127. Magicicada Brood X, East Coast, U.S.
128. Magnetic North Pole
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