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A history of invention : from stone axes to silicon chips / Trevor I. Williams.
2000
G 111 WIL.H
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Title
A history of invention : from stone axes to silicon chips / Trevor I. Williams.
Description
367 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
ISBN
0316851639
0816040729
9780816040728
9780316851633
1856055248
9781856055246
1856055256
0816040729
9780816040728
9780316851633
1856055248
9781856055246
1856055256
Alternate Call Number
G 111 WIL.H
Summary
Traces the history of invention from the beginning of civilization through the twentieth century, and discusses how each innovation met a critical need and also opened the door for the next breakthrough.
Note
Civilization has many facets, but how man lives depends very much on what he can make. The object of this book is to arouse wider interest in the way in which technological factors have shaped - and continue to shape - human history. Technological achievements have not only filled our material needs, but also expanded our spiritual and cultural horizons. The book shows how inventions have revolutionized the way artists, craftsmen, philosophers and even theologians have seen and explained our world. At the beginning of civilization inventors were anonymous - we don't know who made the first wheel or smelted the first copper - but as the story unfolds inventions can be attributed to particular individuals or companies who were sensitive to social and economic opportunity, up to the modern day where it is only major companies who can afford the research and development costs to venture further into the unknown.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note
The beginnings of civilization
The agricultural revolution
Domestic life
Transport
Building construction
Power and machinery
Metals and metal-working
The technology of war
From the rise of Islam to the Renaissance
Paper and printing
Shipping and navigation
The beginning of mechanization
The birth of the chemical industry
Architectural development
The arts of war
The dawn of the modern world
Prime movers
New modes of transport
Mining and metals
Household appliances
The changing pattern of agriculture
The early 20th century
Military technology and the First World War
Sources of energy
New channels of communication
Transport: the rise of road and air
New building techniques
The rise of the chemical industry
The post-war world
Medicine and public health
New aspects of agriculture and food
New materials
Computers and information technology
New military technologies
The shrinking earth
Into the future.
The agricultural revolution
Domestic life
Transport
Building construction
Power and machinery
Metals and metal-working
The technology of war
From the rise of Islam to the Renaissance
Paper and printing
Shipping and navigation
The beginning of mechanization
The birth of the chemical industry
Architectural development
The arts of war
The dawn of the modern world
Prime movers
New modes of transport
Mining and metals
Household appliances
The changing pattern of agriculture
The early 20th century
Military technology and the First World War
Sources of energy
New channels of communication
Transport: the rise of road and air
New building techniques
The rise of the chemical industry
The post-war world
Medicine and public health
New aspects of agriculture and food
New materials
Computers and information technology
New military technologies
The shrinking earth
Into the future.
Series
Published
New York : Checkmark Books, c2000.
Language
English
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