Cover Image

QR Code

Great inventions that changed the world

"Written by one of the world's great engineers, this book provides the curious with an explanation of how inventions have developed from human needs and desires. Chapters discuss the impacts of inventions in our work, personal lives, societies, and the environment. The text also outlines w...

Full description

Saved in:

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Wei, James, 1930-
Corporate Author:	ebrary, Inc
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley, 2012.
Subjects:	Inventions. Technological innovations. Electronic books.
Online Access:	An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
Tags:	Add Tag No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!

Similar Items

Scientific American inventions and discoveries all the milestones in ingenuity--from the discovery of fire to the invention of the microwave oven /
by: Carlisle, Rodney P.
Published: (2004)

How invention begins echoes of old voices in the rise of new machines /
by: Lienhard, John H., 1930-
Published: (2006)

The enchantments of technology
by: Bailey, Lee Worth
Published: (2005)

Ingenium five machines that changed the world /
by: Denny, Mark, 1953-
Published: (2007)

A culture of improvement technology and the Western millennium /
by: Friedel, Robert D. (Robert Douglas), 1950-
Published: (2007)

An Encyclopaedia of the history of technology
Published: (1990)

Machines as the measure of men : science, technology, and ideologies of western dominance /
by: Adas, Michael, 1943-
Published: (2014)

Report on draft 4 of the standards October 28, 1999 /
Published: (1999)

History of technology.
Published: (2006)

Technology a world history /
by: Headrick, Daniel R.
Published: (2009)

Transforming innovations in Africa explorative studies on appropriation in African societies /
Published: (2012)

History of technology.
Published: (2008)

Applied power and energy technology II : selected, peer reviewed papers from the 2014 2 nd International Conference on Advances in Energy and Environmental Science (ICAEES 2014), June 21-22, 2014, Guangzhou, China /
Published: (2014)

Beyond the skin : the boundaries between bodies and technologies in an unequal world /
by: Pirani, Bianca Maria
Published: (2014)

Invention in the real papers of the Freudian School of Melbourne.
by: Clifton, Linda
Published: (2012)

Transportation and technology /
by: Kemp, Emory L.
Published: (2014)

Black inventors /
by: Aaseng, Nathan
Published: (1997)

A field guide to household technology
by: Sobey, Edwin J. C., 1948-
Published: (2007)

The methodical memory invention in current-traditional rhetoric /
by: Crowley, Sharon, 1943-
Published: (1990)

Invention in rhetoric and composition /
by: Lauer, Janice M.
Published: (2004)

Forks, phonographs, and hot air balloons a field guide to inventive thinking /
by: Weber, Robert J. (Robert John), 1936-
Published: (1992)

The rhetorical turn invention and persuasion in the conduct of inquiry /
Published: (1990)

Boston firsts 40 feats of innovation and invention that happened first in Boston and helped make America great /
by: Morgenroth, Lynda
Published: (2006)

Making up Numbers : a history of invention in mathematics /
by: Kopp, P. E., 1944-
Published: (2020)

The myth of the mousetrap how to get your ideas adopted (and change the world) /
by: Miller, Anne
Published: (2007)

Genre And The Invention Of The Writer : Reconsidering the Place of Invention in Composition /
by: Bawarshi, Anis S.
Published: (2003)

Developing national systems of innovation : university-industry interactions in the global south /
Published: (2015)

The tale of the scale an odyssey of invention /
by: Angel, Solly
Published: (2004)

The practical Einstein experiments, patents, inventions /
by: Illy, József, 1933-
Published: (2012)

TRIZ for engineers enabling inventive problem solving /
by: Gadd, Karen
Published: (2011)

Working knowledge employee innovation and the rise of corporate intellectual property, 1800-1930 /
by: Fisk, Catherine L., 1961-
Published: (2009)

Invention and transfer of environmental technologies
Published: (2011)

Everyday engineering putting the E in STEM teaching and learning /
by: Moyer, Richard
Published: (2012)

Innovative places in Europe research clustering, co-patenting networks and the growth of regions /
by: Christ, Julian Phillip
Published: (2012)

Innovative places in Europe research clustering, co-patenting networks and the growth of regions /
by: Christ, Julian Phillip
Published: (2012)

Historicizing "tradition" in the study of religion
Published: (2005)

Invention and reinvention : the evolution of San Diego's innovation economy /
by: Walshok, Mary Lindenstein
Published: (2014)

Guide to the phantom Dark Age /
by: Scott, Emmet
Published: (2014)

How television invented new media
by: Murphy, Sheila C., 1974-
Published: (2011)

Creative technological change the shaping of technology and organisations /
by: McLoughlin, Ian
Published: (1999)