The Greatest Inventions of the Past 2,000 Years
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: January 12, 2000
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780684859989
Subjects: History of engineering & technology; History of science; Inventions; Science; Science/Mathematics; Science / General; History; Uitvindingen.; gtt
First sentence: The most important invention of the past two thousand years is the printing press.
Table of contents: title: How we live. Printing press -- Electric motor -- Telecommunications technology -- Plow -- Otto Von Guericke’s static electricity machine -- Caravel -- Organized science -- Green revolution -- Electric light and aspirin -- Indo-Arab counting system -- Printing press and Thermos bottle -- Flying machines -- University -- Eraser -- Television -- Gutenberg’s press with movable type -- Contraceptive pill -- Harnessing of electricity -- Waterworks -- Genetic sequencing -- Classical music -- Internet -- Printing -- Distillation -- Television -- Computer and atomic bomb -- Pill, gun and hydraulic engineering -- Universal schooling -- Thirty-three year English Protestant calendar -- Stirrup and horse collar -- Social structures that enable inventions -- Digital bit -- Reading glasses -- Papermaking -- Hay -- Battery -- Programmable computer -- Lenses -- Universal turing machine -- Chairs and stairs -- Double-entry accounting -- Gatling gun -- Domestication of the horse -- Computer -- Computer as modelers of climate -- Indo-Arab number system -- Thermionic valve -- Printing -- Public key cryptosystems -- Volta’s electric battery -- Anesthesia -- Late Twentieth Century health care -- City -- Basket -- Hindu-Arabic number system -- Nothing worth mentioning -- Nothing -- Disbelief in the supernatural -- How we think. Democracy and social justice -- Various, including the idea that all people are created equal -- realization of our place in the cosmos-- Alphabet and the lens -- Evolution by selection -- Telescope -- Scientific method -- Concept of education -- Computer networks -- Marketing -- Philosophical skepticism --Construction of autonomous tools -- Geometry -- Atomic bomb -- Scientific method -- Information economy -- Idea of continued Scientific and technological progress -- Control group -- Secularism -- Science -- Interrogative sentence; space travel -- Probability theory -- Clock -- Economic man : most boring invention -- Bell and symphony orchestra -- Identification of smell -- Telescope and theory of evolution by natural selection -- Gödel’s Incompletenes theorem -- Contraceptive pill -- Genetic engineering -- Board games -- Human ego -- Self-government -- Calculus -- Calculus -- Infinitesimal calculus -- Free will -- Mirror -- Idea of the unconscious -- Spectroscope -- Quantum theory -- Copernican theory -- Printing press -- Christianity and Islam -- Various, including the flag -- Mathematical representation -- Idea of an idea -- Digital ecosystem -- Mathematical representation -- Evolution of technology -- Afterword by Jared Diamond -- Contributors.