technology

Explores how new technologies, including the cultivation of plants and animals, the use of fire, and the invention of writing, influenced the development of humankind from prehistoric times through the classical period.

Explores how technological discoveries and advances during the nineteenth century, including the spread of the railroads, the electric telegraph, and the telephone, influenced life on Earth.

Explores how technological advances in the early twentieth century, including television, radio, radar, and computers, laid the foundation for many modern inventions that have changed life on Earth.

Explores the technological advances that took place during the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries and discusses how they impacted life on Earth.

A great weapons of the Ancients is uncovered in the South Pacific and an evil group, thought to be banished from history, plots to control and direct the weapon for their gain, leaving the Event Group to stop the power of the Ancients before it is too late.

Explores how advancements in technology have contributed to an increased number of catastrophes in the last fifty years.

Provides descriptions of various careers in biotechnology, each with information on job duties, requirements and qualifications, salaries, and future opportunities.

Contains a history of sound reproduction in a social, cultural, and economic context, from the Victrola in the early 1900s to the MP3 player of the early twenty-first century, and includes such devices as the 45, eight-track, compact disc, and file-sharing wars.

On dust jacket: A new, companion volume to the best-selling illustrated encyclopedia of modern technology, explaining over 1000 additional machines, principles and processes with instant clarity.