Inventions That Changed the World
Auteur : Rodney Castleden
Date de publication : 2007
Éditeur : Chartwell Books
Nombre de pages : 576
Résumé du livre
More than 250 inventions are described in chronological order, from stone tools to DVDs, from gunpowder to the atom bomb, from the wheel to the worldwide web, including: the names and backgrounds of their inventors, the problems the inventors were trying to solve, the significance of the inventions to their contemporaries, the ways in which inventions have changed the world in which we live.