Johnson, Steven  1968- <br/><br/>
How we got to now :  six innovations that made the modern world /  
Steven Johnson 
 - 1. publ. 
 - London :   Penguin Books,   c2014. 
 - 243, [16] S.  Ill. 
<br/><br/> Literaturverz. S. 225 - [234] 
<br/><br/> 	 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 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781846148538 9781846148606 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Innovation<br/>Technologie<br/>Geschichte