Rating: 5 out of 5 stars

I love this history books about science and innovation. This is a good one.
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Recommended.

NetGalley, Anna Maria Giacomasso

A varied and surprising number of British scientific breakthroughs, inventions and inputs into modern society. There were quite a few opportunities to say ”I didn’t know we thought of that” throughout the book. A fun and interesting read.

NetGalley, Rolf Bachelor

Very interesting with a few surprises. The good old wheelie bin and automatic kettle. But the one that holds in my memory the strongest is the emergency number and how young it still is. I'd love to see an American and Australian version of this book.

NetGalley, Belle Hart

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars

Ingenious Britain - 101 Innovations that Changed the World by Steven A T Williams is a delightfully enlightening read about Britain's dynamic and sometimes not so dynamic contributions to the modern world.

Williams presents the facts in an engaging and affable way, almost as if you are chatting with a friend and this is exactly the right tone for a book of this nature. It goes beyond trivia and into the realm of interesting information, exploring each innovation, how it came to be, who created it, why they did so and the impact it had. Such as the first factory was built in Derby by John Lombe over 300 years ago and the building is still there today. Another example is the invention of the friction match, whereby a London Chemist, Samuel Jones, expanded on the work by French chemist Jean Chancel into self-combusting chemicals and made an invention that endures to this day.

The layout makes for easy reference, each section full of fascinating innovations. A wonderful book for lovers of trivia, but more so, for lovers of history Very well written, I absolutely loved this book.

NetGalley, Ink Reads

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The Kent Review

What a fantastic book this is.

Ingenious Britain is an unbelievably easy and entertaining read that provides so much fascinating information, trivia and history which is weaved together in concise chapters.

The style of writing is entertaining, interesting and kept me engaged, indeed it proved quite hard to put it down.

I cannot think of another book, that offers so much information, across so many different fields, in such an easy to consume manner.

Johnathan Gregory