technology and invention

Describes the work of Wilhelm Rontgen, the German physicist who won the first Nobel Prize in Physics in 1901 for his discovery of X rays.

Highlights inventors and their inventions, from the printing of books in the fifteenth century to today's electronic devices.

Photographs and text explore such inventions as the wheel, gears, levers, clocks, telephones, and rocket engines.

Describes how inventors think and work, explains how one invention--plastic--has changed the world, and briefly discusses seventy-five other important inventions, from the jet engine to the potato chip.

A biography of the nineteenth-century Frenchman who, having been blinded himself at the age of three, went on to develop a system of raised dots on paper that enabled blind people to read and write.