Science Museum - Genius Inventions : The Stories Behind History's Greatest Technological Breakthroughs

Challoner, Jack

Welbeck（2019/09発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 160 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780233005393
• DDC分類 600

Full Description

Genius Inventions gives readers an unprecedented insight into the events, people and histories behind technological and scientific developments that have helped shape modern civilization.

Discover the inspiration for some of the most important moments in the history of technology. An invention is rarely the brainchild of a single person, however brilliant, and the book includes timelines that explain the development of each creation and pays homage to some of the other great developments that came before and after. Beautifully illustrated throughout, showing 20 items of rare, on-the-page documents and memorabilia. See plans of the Wright Brothers' plane and extracts from the notebook of Alexander Graham Bell.

Contents

Ancient Inventions • The Islamic World • Printing • Renaissance Science • Telescopes and Microscopes • Submarines • The Age of Electricity • Steam Power • Photography • The Railways • Electromagnetism • The Mechanical Computer • Antiseptic • The Motor Car • The Light Bulb • The Telephone • Affordable Photography • Alternating Current Motor • Motion Pictures • Powered Flight • Radio • The Haber-Bosch Process • Television • The Helicopter • Rockets • Digital Computers • Immunosuppressive and Antiviral Drugs • The Internet.