TY  - GEN
AB  - 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.
AU  - Williams, Trevor Illtyd,
AU  - Burnette, Arianne E.
AU  - Schaaf, William E.,
CN  - T15
CN  - T15 .W753 1999
ID  - 12750
KW  - Technology
KW  - Patents.
KW  - Inventions.
KW  - PATENTS : GENERAL WORKS : HISTORY
KW  - TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION
KW  - INVENTIONS AND INVENTORS : HISTORICAL ASPECTS
N1  - 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.
N2  - 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.
SN  - 0316851639
T1  - A history of invention :from stone axes to silicon chips /
TI  - A history of invention :from stone axes to silicon chips /
ER  -