history

Explores the extent of child labor in the United States in the nineteenth century and reveals how the photography of Lewis Hine and others helped illuminate children's sordid working conditions and bring about the establishment of child labor laws.

Discusses the world history of transportation including how ancient Egyptian, Indian, Chinese, American, Greek and Roman people used different modes of transportation. Features full-color photographs, a timeline, a glossary, and further reading sources.

Describes different medical technologies used in the ancient world for plastic surgery, bonesetting, and eye surgery. Includes information on medical textbooks written in ancient times and herbal remedies discovered by early medical specialists.

Explores different machines created by the ancient Chinese, Middle Easterners, Greeks, and Romans including wheels, pulleys, levers, war machines, and wheelbarrows.

Describes the different materials used in construction by the ancient Egyptians, Chinese, and Romans.

Teaches how ancient societies around the world used tools and techniques of computing. Covers ancient Middle East, Egypt, India, China, Americas, Greece, and Rome and discusses how computing plays into today's modern technology.

Discusses how ways to communicate have changed throughout history from cave paintings to rock pictures to clay tablets to paper. Includes information on how ancient communication forms helped to create modern communication technology.

Discusses the history of agricultural technology including how the ancient Chinese created irrigation procedures to grow more rice, how the ancient Middle Easterners learned about breeding sheep for different colors of wool, and how the ancient Greeks invented machines for crushing grapes and olives.

Explores the daily lives of tanners in colonial America and examines the many tasks they performed in their communities. Outlines several of the techniques and tools used by tanners, and includes full-color photographs and illustrations, a glossary, and further reading sources.

Explores the daily lives of tailors in colonial America and examines the many tasks they performed in their communities. Outlines several of the techniques and tools used by tailors, and includes full-color photographs and illustrations, a glossary, and further reading sources.