@article{12750,
      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.},
      author = {Williams, Trevor Illtyd, and Burnette, Arianne E. and  Schaaf, William E.,},
      url = {http://tind.wipo.int/record/12750},
      title = {A history of invention : from stone axes to silicon chips  /},
      abstract = {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.},
      recid = {12750},
      pages = {367 pages :},
}