Inventors and discoverers : changing our world

National Geographic Book Service. (Added Author).

Record details

ISBN: 9780870447525 (deluxe : alk. paper) :
ISBN: 9780870447532 (lib. bdg. : alk. paper) :
ISBN: 9780870447518 (alk. paper) :
ISBN: 0870447521 (deluxe : alk. paper) :
ISBN: 087044753X (lib. bdg. : alk. paper) :
ISBN: 0870447513 (alk. paper) :
Physical Description: print
320 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Washington, D.C. : National Geographic Society, c1988.

Content descriptions

General Note:

Includes index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Discoverers & inventors / Daniel J. Boorstin -- The power of steam / Margaret Sedeen - The age of electricity / Stephen S. Hall -- On wheels & wings /Tom D. Crouch -- A world of new materials / Robert Friedel -- Capturing the image / Thomas B. Allen -- Messages by wireless / Fred Strebeigh -- Power particles / Richard Rhodes -- Computers & chips / T.R. Reid -- Engineering life / H. Garrett DeYoung -- Technology of tomorrow / Carole Douglis.