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Author
Publisher
Firefly Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Gives the historical and technological context behind fifty machines that influenced the development of human civilization.
"Survey of the mechanical devices that propelled 18th-century society into the 19th and 20th centuries. The book celebrates more than 200 years of technological development at the height of the Industrial Revolution. These are not generic inventions but rather specific, branded machines whose names in many cases have become...
Author
Publisher
Firefly Books
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
The 50 animals include the horse, dog, rat, whale, reindeer, beaver, flea, leech, dodo, falcon, oyster and shark. These creatures, great and small, have played central roles in the evolution of humankind, but they have remained at the periphery of our understanding of history. Whether it is an advancement in scientific knowledge, a trade war, disease and death, battles won and lost, or encounters with explorers in unknown lands, these animals have...
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