What's the Big Idea?
Subtitle: what's the big idea? : 2,400,000 years of inventions
By: David Stewart.
Edition: 1st ed. for the U.S., its territories and dependencies, Canada, Mexico, and the Philippine Republic
Publisher: Barrons Educational Series
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Hauppauge, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 64
ISBN-13: 9780764158988
Subjects: Inventions -- History -- Juvenile literature.; Technological innovations -- Juvenile literature.; Inventions -- History.; Technological innovations.
Genres: Juvenile literature.
Description: Describes the most important inventions from the Stone Age to the beginning of the twenty-first century. Organization is by historical periods.
Table of contents: title: Early people : 2,400,000 to 8000 B.C.; title: The first cities : 11,000 to 2000 B.C.; title: The ancient world : 3000 to 230 B.C.; title: The ancient Greeks : 285 to 150 B.C.; title: The Romans : 73 B.C. to AD 476; title: The Dark Ages : AD 300 to 950; title: The early Middle Ages : 1066 to 1286; title: Castles at war : 1300 to 1364; title: Feudal society : 1295 to 1400; title: The Renaissance : 1415 to 1565; title: New horizons : 1492 to 1590; title: Particles and planets : 1572 to 1661; title: Building big machines : 1665 to 1752; title: New steam power : 1755 to 1792; title: The electric revolution : 1799 to 1824; title: Trains and tracks : 1819 to 1840; title: Factories and tools : 1833 to 1859; title: Bright lights, big cities : 1852 to 1879; title: New communications : 1876 to 1891; title: Learning to fly : 1893 to 1901; title: Mass production : 1901 to 1912; title: The broadcasting age : 1912 to 1926; title: Sophisticated weapons : 1923 to 1946; title: Global superpowers : 1941 to 1958; title: The race for space : 1960 to 1969; title: Modern technology : 1970 to 1979; title: The final frontier : 1980 to 1987; title: Living in a cyberworld : 1990 to 1999; title: The new millennium : 2000 to ?