Inventions

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This title features 25 different scientists and the ideas which may not have made them famous, but made history! Typically, we remember our greatest scientists from one single invention, one new formula or one incredible breakthrough. This narrow perspective does not give justic…

* How did the popularity of underwear in the twelfth century lead to the invention of the printing press? * How did the waterwheel evolve into thecomputer? * How did the arrival of the cannon lead eventually to the development of movies? In this highly acclaimed and bestselling …

Explores the accidents of time, place, and circumstance that culminated in the century's technological achievements: the computer, the telephone, the production line, the airplane, the atomic bomb, the guided rocket, plastics, and television.