Wheels, Clocks, and Rockets
Subtitle: A History of Technology
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: May 2001
Language: eng
Number of pages: 592
ISBN-13: 9780393321753
First sentence: 'Every science', wrote James Clerk Maxwell, has some instrument of precision, which may be taken as a material type of that science which it has advanced, by enabling observers to express their results as measured quantities.