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000012750 1001_ $$aWilliams, Trevor Illtyd,$$eauthor.
000012750 24512 $$aA history of invention :$$bfrom stone axes to silicon chips /$$cTrevor I. Williams.
000012750 264_1 $$aNew York :$$bCheckmark Books,$$cc2000.
000012750 300__ $$a367 pages :$$billustrations (some color) ;$$c29 cm
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000012750 500__ $$aCivilization 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.
000012750 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
000012750 5050_ $$aThe 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.
000012750 520__ $$aTraces the history of invention from the beginning of civilization through the twentieth century, and discusses how each innovation met a critical need and also opened the door for the next breakthrough.
000012750 650_0 $$aTechnology$$xHistory.
000012750 650_0 $$aPatents.
000012750 650_0 $$aInventions.
000012750 650_4 $$aPATENTS : GENERAL WORKS : HISTORY
000012750 650_4 $$aTECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION
000012750 650_4 $$aINVENTIONS AND INVENTORS : HISTORICAL ASPECTS
000012750 7001_ $$aBurnette, Arianne E.
000012750 7001_ $$aSchaaf, William E.,$$cJr.
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