Inventors and discoverers
Subtitle: changing our world
By: [prepared by National Geographic Book Service].
Contributors: National Geographic Book Service.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: National Geographic Society
Published: 1988
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
Subjects: Inventions -- History.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Discovers & inventors / Daniel J. Boorstin; title: The power of steam / Margaret Sedeen - The age of electricity / Stephen S. Hall; title: On wheels & wings / Tom D. Crouch; title: A world of new materials / Robert Friedel; title: Capturing the image / Thomas B. Allen; title: Messages by wireless / Fred Strebeigh; title: Power particles / Richard Rhodes; title: Computers & chips / T.R. Reid; title: Engineering life / H. Garrett DeYoung; title: Technology of tomorrow / Carole Douglis.