Invention
著者
書誌事項
Invention
（Eyewitness guides）
Dorling Kindersley, 2003
- : pbk
大学図書館所蔵 全3件
注記
Includes index
Published in association with the Science Museum, London
内容説明・目次
内容説明
Why was the invention of the wheel so important? Who invented the flushing toilet? This guide will get your brain buzzing with the full range of different human inventions that have helped to shape the world we live in today, from the earliest primitive tools to advanced plastic fibres.
目次
- What is an invention?
- the story of an invention
- tools
- the wheel
- metalworking
- weights and measures
- pen and ink
- lighting
- timekeeping
- harnessing power
- printing
- optical inventions
- calculating
- the steam engine
- navigation and surveying
- spinning and weaving
- batteries
- photography
- medical inventions
- the telephone
- recording
- the internal combustion engine
- cinema
- radio
- inventions in the home
- the cathode ray tube
- flight
- plastics
- the silicon chip
- did you know?
- timeline of inventions
- find out more.
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