technological innovations

Details, in graphic form, the history of industrialization and the technological innovations which have resulted from it.

Explores how inventions such as the lightbulb affect the way people live now and in the past.

Examines the drivers of global change, connecting the dots among the social, economic, and political forces shaping our present and future.

A collection of twenty-two essays that offers varying perspectives on issues concerning technology and society, including the impact of technology on society and education, government regulation of technology, and if technology can improve humanity.

Surveys some of the important technologies that will impact the lives of people living at the dawn of the twenty-first century, discussing developments in genetics, cybernetics, medicine, telecommunications, environmental cleanup, robotics, micromachines, and other areas; and offers explanations of how such technologies work.

Follows the development of roads in the United States--and the new forms of transportation that used them--from the National Highway of 1805 through railroads and paved roads for bicycles and automobiles to the interstate system.

Describes new technologies that are helping make military aviation, land warfare, warships and submarines, intelligence, non-lethal weapons, and space weapons more efficient and discusses the implications these technologies have on current and future warfare.

Describes technological innovations in the electronics and aerospace industries, civil engineering, and the service and leisure industries.

Contains instructions for various at-home projects that can be done using technology, including LEGO ice cubes, a light saber, a shower beer caddy, and other ideas.