Technology
A History
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Word Count
44,000 words, Guess
Page Count
176 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- Internet Archivetechnologyworldh00head
- Internet Archivetechnologyworldh00head_737
- ISBN-10019515648X
- ISBN-139780195156485
- LibraryThing8519797
and 4 more
- Library of Congress Control Number2008033426
- OCLC Control Number221155133
- Better World Books9780195156485
- Open LibraryOL10133464M
Classifications
- LCCT15.H42 2008
- LCCT15 .H42 2009
Description
Today technology has created a world of dazzling progress, growing disparities of wealth and poverty, and looming threats to the environment. This book offers an illuminating backdrop to our present moment: a brilliant history of invention around the globe. The author, an historian ranges from the Stone Age and the beginnings of agriculture to the Industrial Revolution and the electronic revolution of the recent past. In tracing the growing power of humans over nature through increasingly powerful innovations, he compares the evolution of technology in different parts of the world, providing a much broader account than is found in other histories of technology. We also discover how small changes sometimes have dramatic results; how, for instance, the stirrup revolutionized war and gave the Mongols a deadly advantage over the Chinese. And how the nailed horseshoe was a pivotal breakthrough for western farmers. This book offers a fascinating look at the spread of inventions around the world, both as boons for humanity and as weapons of destruction.
Description
Today technology has created a world of dazzling progress, growing disparities of wealth and poverty, and looming threats to the environment. This book offers an illuminating backdrop to our present moment: a brilliant history of invention around the globe. The book ranges from the Stone Age and the beginnings of agriculture to the Industrial Revolution and the electronic revolution of the recent past. In tracing the growing power of humans over nature through increasingly powerful innovations, the author compares the evolution of technology in different parts of the world, providing a much broader account than is found in other histories of technology. We also discover how small changes sometimes have dramatic results; how, for instance, the stirrup revolutionized war and gave the Mongols a deadly advantage over the Chinese. And how the nailed horseshoe was a pivotal breakthrough for western farmers. This book offers a fascinating look at the spread of inventions around the world, both as boons for humanity and as weapons of destruction.
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