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Key Moments in Science and Technology Keith Wicks

Key Moments in Science and Technology By Keith Wicks

Key Moments in Science and Technology by Keith Wicks


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Summary

This text identifies those scientific breakthroughs that triggered fundamental change in human society. From man's discovery of the fire to splitting the atom, the printing press to the microchip, all of the technological advances that helped alter our world-view have been catalogued here.

Key Moments in Science and Technology Summary

Key Moments in Science and Technology: From the Wheel to the Web by Keith Wicks

This text identifies those scientific breakthroughs that triggered fundamental change in human society. From man's discovery of the fire to splitting the atom, the printing press to the microchip, all of the technological advances that helped alter our world-view have been catalogued here. There are also feature biographies of the inventors, scientists and thinkers whose insights and curiosities helped humanity understand - and master - a little more of the world around it. The text is complemented with illustrations that enhance the story of progress and development told here.

Table of Contents

Energy; materials and processes; building and construction; spinning and weaving; farming and food; transport; astronomy and space; measurements; writing and printing; photography and film; domestic appliances; recorded sound; medical; weapons; communications; computers.

Additional information

GOR006868447
9780600596752
0600596753
Key Moments in Science and Technology: From the Wheel to the Web by Keith Wicks
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Octopus Publishing Group
1999-10-15
192
N/A
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