Milestones of Science and Technology
Second Edition

Description

The Kodak camera, the brain scanner, the steam turbine, the telephone—such inventions not only changed the course of history, but also changed our understanding of what the human race could achieve. Since its publication in 1992 with the title Making of the Modern World, Milestones of Science and Technology has served as an authoritative guide to this remarkable history of human innovation. This second edition takes its readers up to the present day, with insightful discussions of the new technologies we already take for granted—from in vitro fertilization to the Internet.

Organized chronologically, the book begins with a look at the navigational tools that mapped the New World, such as the octant and the chronometer, before moving on to the steam-powered factory machines of the Industrial Revolution, the lifesaving medicines of World Wars I and II, and the dynamically designed consumer goods of the 1950’s and ’60’s. An essay about each invention, written by an expert in the field, includes a short history of the invention’s creation, use, and significance—and is accompanied by a specially commissioned color photograph as well as supplementary archival photographs in black and white.

Edited by Peter Morris, Head of Research at London’s Science Museum, Milestones of Science and Technology will be fascinating reading for anyone interested in the history of science and technology.

Product Details

Hardcover
10 x 10; 240 pages; illustrated (b&w and color)
ISBN: 978-0-9817736-5-0
February 2012: $74.95

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