Milestones of science and technology
Subtitle: making of the modern world
By: Peter Morris, executive editor ; James C. Hart, managing editor ; Lesley Henderson, further reading editor ; Philip Sayer, photographs
Edition: Revised and expanded second edition.
Publisher: KWS; In association with the Science Museum
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9780981773650
Subjects: Inventions; Science Museum (Great Britain); Technological innovations; Technology; History
Other titles: Making of the modern world.
Description: Follows key the developments in science, technology, and medicine, from the Byzantine sundial-calendar (circa 520) to the prototype "Clock of the long now" (1999). In doing so, one can follow the creative achievements that have shaped the modern world.
Notes: 1st ed.: Making of the modern world : milestones of science and technology / edited by Neil Cossons with Andrew Nahum and Peter Turvey -- London : John Murray, 1992.

Essays describing 100 inventions selected from the Science Museum collection.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 242-254) and index.