Miracles come in different kinds. Some are fairy-tale miracles—“by the wish of the Pike, by my own will.” Others are real. For example, when in 1961 Yuri Gagarin flew into space, many perceived his flight as a kind of technological miracle. It is no accident that S.P. Korolev, the chief designer under whose leadership this project was carried out, called these and similar developments “fantasy on the drawings.” Miracles very often appear in our everyday life too—it's just that we don’t always notice them.
In this audio book, you’ll find a story about the most interesting miracles of high technology, architecture, and construction.
Contents:
Following the Trail of the Big Bang
Space Telescopes
Graphene Breakthrough
Miracles of “Self-Healing”
How to Weave… a Rocket?
Textile Workers in Space
Like a Chick from an Egg
How Details Grow
Hats and Cloaks for Invisibility of the 21st Century
Travel to the Center of the Earth
The “Hot Drop” Project
A Star in… an Oven?
Will Elbrus Warm Us?
A Factory on a Volcano
Liquid… Coal?
Water from Antarctica
Ice—Rescuer
The Fate of the Rescue “Umbrella”
Creating… an Explosion?!
Electricity from… a Bomb?!
A Bomb Against Fire
A Robot-Wall Crawler
A Robot-“Fly”
In the Depths of Centuries and Pyramids
At the Start—Entomopters
Are You Really James Bond? Or How to Fool a Lie Detector
What Can You Do with the Power of Thought?
Virtual Travels
A Computer Made from a Test Tube?!
Do Bacteria Teach Poems?!
A House-Thermos
What Can You Build a House From?
“The House of the Three Little Pigs”
“Birdhouses” for People
“Crazy” Houses
A House for Carlson—and Not Only
The “Ark” of Architect Remizov
Underground Cities
A Robot Builds a House
Hotels in Space
How to Grow a House?