This volume presents some of the technological highlights for the period 1947 through 2010.

Highlights scientific and technological innovations between 1900 and 1946, including radio, automobiles, television, antibiotics, radar, and nuclear fission.

Highlights scientific and technological innovations prior to 1500, including paper, windmills, bridges, compasses, clocks, and guns.

This book covers the scientific developments of the 19th century, the great age of the machine when factory chimneys rose above industrial towns. Manufacturers

In only a few decades, new materials, new machines, new sources of power, and new methods of transportation changed the face of the world. Mines, furnaces, and