Presents a timeline of inventions from the use of fire in prehistoric times to the iPad in 2010, with an emphasis on developments in the nineteenth and twentiet

A global view of science and technology as it developed over the centuries.

An introduction to the great inventors of the world. Filled with facts both serious and comic, the book describes the lives and work of more than 50 major inven

Full-color illustrations that describe some of history's most important inventions and advances including the first weaving machine in 1764, the catapult in the

Presents a timeline of human transportation throughout history, from early forms of land and water travel to the development of road and highway systems, the in