Author

Ken Alder

3 books

Books

  1. The Measure of All Things: The Seven-Year Odyssey and Hidden Error That Transformed the World 2002
2 more
  1. The Lie Detectors: The History of an American Obsession 2007
  2. Engineering the Revolution 1999

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