1001 Inventions that Changed the World

Edited by Jack Challoner
Quintessence (Penguin) 2009
ISBN 9780143010852
Paperback with flaps $65

This is a big fat book packed with information about everyday items we see all around us, along with more unusual inventions, that have an impact on the way we live our lives, complete with heaps of colour photographs. Chronologically organised from the ancient world to the internet age – from stone tools to the bionic eye, and a glossary to finish with.

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