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.

"From the first stone tools to satellites and superconductors" - cover.

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