• The Practical Einstein: Experiments, Patents, Inventions, by József lily and published by The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD 21218-4363, (2012), $49.46, pp. ix + 202, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-4214-0457-8.
Einstein spent six years in the Patent Office and got very high marks for his work. Perhaps the most impressive thing that I learned from this book was the amount of classical physics that Einstein used in his design of experiments, his expert opinions on physical processes, and his inventions (planimeters, compasses, filtering viruses, refrigerators, hearing aids, altimeters, airplane horizon indicators, torpedoes, automatic correction of measured data, …) spread throughout his life.
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