Main entry:

Eco, Umberto, author.

Title & Author:

The picture history of inventions, from plough to Polaris / Umberto Eco and G.B. Zorzoli; translated from the Italian by Anthony Lawrence.

Publication:

New York : The Macmillan Company, 1963.
©1962

Description:

360 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm

Notes:
The growth of man -- The house -- Metals and mines -- The boat and the wheel -- Attack and defence -- The Alexandrian engineers -- Water and wind -- Horses and ships improve their performance -- Gunpowder and the new art of war -- The Gothic cathedral -- The development of optics -- Printing -- The measurement of time -- Leonardo and the Renaissance engineers -- The invention of the telescope -- Scientific instruments -- Automata and calculating machines -- Spinning machines, mechanical looms and the Industrial Revolution -- From the voltaic pile to the age of light -- The age of steam -- The water-wheel becomes a turbine -- The alchemist becomes a leader of industry -- Oil -- The internal combustion engine -- The telegraph and the telescope -- The new architecture -- From photography to the cinema -- The marvels of progress -- Human flight -- Synthetic materials -- The electronic age -- The nuclear reactor -- The machine that thinks -- The conquest of space.

Summary:

A lavishly illustrated text-and-picture book, showing how man's scientific and technical imagination shaped his history.

Subject:

Technology History.
Inventions History.
Technologie Histoire.
Inventions Histoire.
Inventions
Technology
Science History.

Form/genre:

Quotations (texts)
History

Added entries:

Zorzoli, Giovanni Battista, author.
Lawrence, Anthony, translator.

History of inventions

Holdings:

Location: Library main 238358
Call No.: T15 .E313 1963
Status: Available