Great Discoveries That Changed the World — The Stories Behind the Breakthroughs
Product Details
Everything about your modern life rests on a handful of world-changing discoveries. Great Discoveries That Changed the World tells the astonishing human stories behind the ideas and inventions that built the world you live in.
From fire, the wheel and writing to the printing press, the telescope, electricity, medicine and the computer, this book reveals how these breakthroughs happened — and how they transformed everything that came after.
What you\xe2\x80\x99ll discover
- Discover the breakthroughs that built the modern world
- Learn the surprising human stories behind them
- See how one discovery made the next one possible
- Understand how discoveries really happen
- Appreciate the shoulders of giants you stand on
Inside this book
- Fire — the first great discovery
- The wheel and the birth of travel
- Writing — how we conquered forgetting
- Farming, cities and the printing press
- The telescope, the microscope and new worlds
- Medicine and the war against disease
- Electricity and the conquest of the night
- The steam engine, communication and flight
- Vaccines, clean water and the computer
- How discoveries really happen + 100 fascinating facts
Who it\xe2\x80\x99s for
Anyone curious about science, history and invention — readers who love the stories behind how our world came to be.
Why this book
These stories are the story of us. Told with clarity and wonder, they turn "how did we get here?" into one of the most fascinating reads you'll pick up.
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