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Make magazine called Bill a "brilliant science-and-technology documentarian", whose "videos should be held up as models of how to present complex technical information visually." Wired called them "dazzling." His work has been recognized by an extraordinarily broad range of scientific, engineering, and journalistic professional societies. From journalists he has won the trifecta of the top science and engineering journalism awards: The National Association of Science Writer's coveted Science in Society Award; the American Chemical Society's Grady-Stack Medal, and the American Institute of Physics' Science Writing Award--all typically given to journalists. From his engineering peers he's been recognized with the ASME's Church Medal, ieee's D ...more

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	Eight Amazing Engineering Stories: Using the Elements to Create Extraordinary Technologies by Bill Hammack (Goodreads Author), P.E. Ryan, Nicholas Ziech 4.07 avg rating — 272 ratings — published 2012 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fatal Flight: The True Story of Britain's Last Great Airship 3.89 avg rating — 95 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	How Engineers Create the World: The Public Radio Commentaries of Bill Hammack 4.02 avg rating — 44 ratings — published 2011	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Albert Michelson's Harmonic Analyzer: A Visual Tour of a Nineteenth Century Machine That Performs Fourier Analysis by Bill Hammack (Goodreads Author), Steve Kranz, Bruce Carpenter 4.79 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 2014 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Michael Faraday’s The Chemical History of a Candle: With Guides to Lectures, Teaching Guides & Student Activities by Bill Hammack (Goodreads Author), Don DeCoste 4.18 avg rating — 22 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Why engineers need to grow a long tail: A primer on using new media to inform the public and to create the next generation of innovative engineers by Bill Hammack (Goodreads Author), University of Illinois - Urbana 3.25 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Why Engineers Need to Grow a Long Tail 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Heaven's Command: An Imperial Progress (The Pax Britannica Trilogy, #1)

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Bill Hammack made a comment on Josh Hamacher’s review of Fatal Flight: The True Story of Britain's Last Great Airship " I appreciate this insightful review. The reviewer quotes percentages from an electronic version. In the print version, as measured by page count, the ...more "
May 19, 2018 09:12AM · see review
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Bill Hammack made a comment in the group Goodreads Librarians Group — resolve duplicate record topic " One of my books has two records for its ebook version: ISBN 978-0-9839661-9-7 has two records. Could someone help link these or delete one? The first ...more "
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Bill Hammack made a comment in the group Beta Reader Group — narrative non-fiction/history / complete manuscript / Britain's last Imperial airship topic " I'm looking for beta readers of my manuscript Fatal Flight: The True Story of Britain's Last Great Airship. The manuscript is ~45,000 words. Here's a ...more "
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Bill Hammack rated a book it was amazing The Man without Qualities: The Intersection of Science and Literature (Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture) by Thomas Sebastian	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
This is an excellent short book on Musil's Man without Qualities (MWQ). It is not an introduction, but useful to read once you spent some time with MWQ. Perhaps the most useful aspect is showing the early influence of Mach on Musil.
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Bill Hammack made a comment in the group Goodreads Librarians Group — How long: Bower ISBN Database topic " Do you have access to books in print? If not, I can provide the info. "
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Bill Hammack made a comment on his review of The Ambassadors " I was a Jefferson Science Fellow for only a year ... just temporary assignment - year long. It was interesting to see State's operation from the insid ...more "
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Bill Hammack rated a book it was amazing Arabian Sands by Wilfred Thesiger	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Nearly every listing of the best best travel books mentions this book. And it is no surprise: There is nothing quite like it. Most travel book contains vivid descriptions of the landscape. While Thesiger's occasionally describes the deserts physical ...more
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“Melvin Kranzberg, a historian, once observed “technology is neither good nor bad; nor is it neutral.”
― Bill Hammack, Eight Amazing Engineering Stories: Using the Elements to Create Extraordinary Technologies

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“Georges Claude made a fortune from his neon signs, but lost most of it in the 1930s with hair brained schemes to make electricity using the temperature difference between the top of the ocean and its icy depths. He almost ended his career imprisoned for life.”
― Bill Hammack, How Engineers Create the World: The Public Radio Commentaries of Bill Hammack

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“And Moore’s Law gave us bad software: Instead of writing efficient code, programmers just waited until the computers got faster. I’m reminded of Blaise Pascal’s comment three centuries ago. Apologizing for a verbose letters he wrote “I have only made this [letter] longer because I have not had the time to make it shorter.”
― Bill Hammack, How Engineers Create the World: The Public Radio Commentaries of Bill Hammack

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