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It All Started with the Wheel. The Evolution of Inventions: From the Axe to the Laser

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It All Started with the Wheel. The Evolution of Inventions: From the Axe to the Laser
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Are ingenious inventions the result of random insights or long hard work? Sometimes remarkable things arise simply out of a desire to do a favor for our contemporaries.
This book takes you through a succession of epochs, from stone tools to humanoid robots, from the cradle of humanity in Africa to where digital technology flourished in California. Your traveling companions will be Archimedes, Ibn al-Haysam, Leonardo da Vinci, Alfred Nobel, Mikhail Kalashnikov and Steve Jobs.
You will learn how people used to live without clocks and what temperature the first thermometer measured. Why the Ada83 programming language is named after the poet Byron's daughter and when, finally, we will be able to wear spray clothes and talk to pets through a translator.
Denis Gutleben's fascinating, slightly ironic stories about inventors and inventions will introduce you to unexpected historical facts and give you a new perspective on things we use today without thinking.
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