100 Inventions That Changed History: Technology: An Illustrated History of Machines From Stone Axes to Robotics

(Hardback, , Includes a 12-Page Fold-Out Timeline History of Technology Poster ed.)

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Here is the essential guide to the history of technology, an authoritative reference book and timeline that examines how tools have built our civilidation, changed our environment, and could even alter our species. The term technology is frequently associated with modernity and the possibilities of the future. However, we have been using technologies since before the dawn of history. Even then we were machine builders. A neolithic hand axe is a wedge-shaped cutter that works in essentially the same way as a razor blade, while a potters wheel is the same as the gear transmission of a Formula-1 car.

The difference is simply the application of novel materials, and the many ages of technology are closely linked to thembronze, iron, steel, glass, silicon What will be the materials of tomorrows technology Superconductors that carry current with perfect efficiency, smart materials that alter their shapes to suit the conditions, or nanorobots built from just a few dozen atoms, that work unseen everywhere, even inside our bodies Only time, and a lot of invention, will tell.