This is a history of technology, of the transformation of the discoveries and inventions of pure science into the useful applications that make everybody's lives easier. In this book, the author recreates the sheer ingenuity which conquered the obstacles that time, space and motion placed before man, harnessing powers latent in water, steam, gas, oil, light, charged electrons, chemicals and wind.
- ISBN10 0006861768
- ISBN13 9780006861768
- Publish Date 7 February 1994
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 2 April 2001
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
- Imprint Fontana Press
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 576
- Language English
- URL http://harpercollins.co.uk