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

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

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

The Illustrated Histories of Everyday Inventions uncovers the fascinating, humorous, and often unbelievable origins behind the world's most overlooked innovatio

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