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How we got to now : six innovations that made the modern world / Steven Johnson

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publication details: London : Penguin Books, c2014.Edition: 1. publDescription: 243, [16] S. IllISBN:
  • 9781846148538
  • 9781846148606
Uniform titles:
  • How we got to know
Subject(s): Other classification:
  • QC 344
  • ZG 9080
Summary: Traces six essential innovations that made the modern world; from their origins in ancient history to the technological advancements of recent years. He uncovers a surprising history of pivotal scientific breakthroughs made by amateurs and entrepreneurs through the centuries: from the Parisian printer who invented the 'phonautograph' to record sound decades before Eddison, to a businessman's audacious and unannounced intervention of adding chlorine to his city's reservoirs in order to keep his contract with the water board. Each fascinating story builds the network of ideas which made subsequent discoveries possible
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Traces six essential innovations that made the modern world; from their origins in ancient history to the technological advancements of recent years. He uncovers a surprising history of pivotal scientific breakthroughs made by amateurs and entrepreneurs through the centuries: from the Parisian printer who invented the 'phonautograph' to record sound decades before Eddison, to a businessman's audacious and unannounced intervention of adding chlorine to his city's reservoirs in order to keep his contract with the water board. Each fascinating story builds the network of ideas which made subsequent discoveries possible

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