technological innovations

Examines how the people of ancient Egypt designed and used technology, covering pyramids, sailing ships, paper and ink, embalming, irrigation, measurement, and other topics.

Readers will gain a better understanding of how the digital age has changed the way we live our lives. Sidebars and timelines put finer details in accessible focus.

Describes how a wide variety of things such as nursery rhymes, the national anthem, anesthesia, cellophane, raisins, and dynamite came into being.

Examines trends and scientific and technological research to speculate what a typical day will be like for a child living in the year 2030.

Profiles fifty accidental inventions, such as the ice cream soda, nitrous oxide, fingerprinting, and dynamite, explaining how they came to be.