history of invention
Subtitle: from stone axes to silicon chips
By: Trevor I. Williams.
Contributors: Schaaf, William E.; Burnette, Arianne E.
Edition: Rev. ed., updated & revised by William E. Schaaf, Jr. with Arianne E. Burnette.
Publisher: Little, Brown
Published: 1999
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 367
Subjects: Inventions -- History.
Description: This volume aims to prove that technological innovation has not been the monopoly of any one culture but the product of the interplay of them all and shows us how inventions have revolutionised the explanations of the world we live in.
Notes: Previous ed.: London: MacDonald, 1987.

ISBN 1856055256 used for this title is already in use.

Includes index.

Bibliography: p.358-360.