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Good in Good jacket. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall. BOOK: Corners, Spine Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards. DUST JACKET: Repaired; Lightly Creased; Moderately Chipped; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. Over 130 color and black and white illustrations. JACKET ILLUSTRATIONS: FRONT-Edison phonograph (Michael Holford Library); Britain's Skylark rocket (British Aircraft Corporation); Howe's sewing machine (Michael Holford Library/Science Museum); Flint spearhead (Michael Holford Library/British Museum); Early compound microscope (Michael Holford Library/Science Museum); Stephenson's Rocket (Ronan Picture Library); Gas-filled balloon (Ronan Picture Library); Bright's Bell telegraph receiver (Michael Holford Library/Science Museum); Galileo's escapement (Michael Holford Library/Science Museum); Radio telescope at Jodrell Bank (Ronan Picture Library); BACK-Duke of Devonshire's engine, designed by Watt (Birmingham Public Libraries). SYNOPSIS: 50 illustrations in full color; 85 illustrations in black and white. The story of inventions is, in many ways, the story of man himself. It is man's ability to shape the world to his own advantage, and to create the tools with which to do it, that distinguishes him from the other animals. The Story of Inventions is that story. The author traces man's steps, sometimes awkward, sometimes accidental, often breathtakingly brilliant, from the conquest of fire to the conquest of space. It is an exciting journey, whose landmarks are the great inventors, from Archimedes through Leonardo da Vinci to Thomas Edison, and the great inventions, from the plough through the printing press to the laser. There are surprises too. The ordinary sewing needle turns out to have been one of the oldest and most significant of inventions. On the other hand, the author suggests, the wheel as used in transport may in the long run turn out to have been a very short-lived affair. And the greatest invention of all? The author opts for what you are using now, the alphabet. Perhaps Leonardo da Vinci would have picked the wheelbarrow as his personal favourite. You didn't know he invented the wheelbarrow? Read on...
