A compendium of the great and transformative inventors and inventions throughout history, Inventors and Inventions provides an overview of key technologies and products and delves into the story behind some of the most profound inventions that have shaped our lives today. This beautiful and engaging book explores inventions throughout history, covering everything from the wheel and Archimedes Screw to the Dual-Cyclone Vacuum cleaner and the ipod. With chapters on Computers, Entertainment, Design, Medicine, Warfare, Sports and Transportation, amongst others, every important technological category is covered. Inventors and Inventions delves into well-known and everyday inventions, many of which we take for granted, to explore their origins and the context behind their creation. Amongst the profiles of inventors will be Archimedes, Al Jazari, Leonardo da Vinci, Benjamin Franklin, Louis Daguerre, Trevor Bayliss, Thomas Edison, The Wright Brothers, Marie Curie, Tim Berners-Lee, John Logie Baird, James Dyson, Phillipe Starck and many others.
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Richard Fisher is the News Editor of New Scientist. He has written extensively for technology magazine The Engineer.
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