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The Technology of Man: A Visual History

Derek Birdsall and Carlo M. Cipolla

Birdsall, Derek; Carlo M. Cipolla;

The Technology of Man: A Visual History

Wildwood House, 1980, 264 pages

ISBN 070453035X, 9780704530355

topics: |  science | history | technology | reference | picture-book


CONTENTS:
Introduction
The Neolithic Revolution: One of the more interesting chapters, outlining
	different stages of stone tools with many images; oldest known cloth,
	wooden handles for use with axes, reed boats, etc.
The Decline and Fall
	Chinese books making, Arabic astrolabes, etc.  The "decline and fall"
	refers to the western view.
The Urban Revolution,
The Water Mill and the Windmill,
The Printing Press,
The Galleon,
The Scientific Revolution,
The Industrial Revolution,
The new land of Technology,
The Space Age,
What Next?.


amitabha mukerjee (mukerjee [at] gmail.com) 17 Feb 2009