The Illustrated Timeline of Inventions: A Crash Course in Words & Pictures
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| Rating | : | 4.66 (845 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1402748620 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 128 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-01-10 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Sidebars throughout provide valuable historical context and even hazard a guess at what some of tomorrow’s inventors may bring usincluding disposable computers, self-cleaning glass, robotic domestics, machines operated by the electromagnetism of brainwaves, and much, much more. Find out which civilization discovered irrigation technology and who created everything from buttons, glass, the first cart with wheels, and clocks to telescopes, submarines, telegraphy, patent medicines, machine guns, washing machines, plastic, jet engines, and disposable diapers. All the text entries are color-coded to show at a glance where each invention occurred.. From the spear to the printing press to the computer: this colorful, vastly informative timeline covers these and practically every other significant invention that came before and after
"A Gem of Who Did What When" according to B. Mann. We casual "factoholics" love books that graphically summarize the chronology of just about anything. The apotheosis of such books may be The Timetables of History: A Horizontal Linkage of People and Events (Timetables of History) and while I cherish that book, its comprehensiveness can