Fifty Machines That Changed the Course of History
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About the Book

A celebration of fifty iconic machines and of mechanical technology in general.

Table of Contents:
Introduction 1. Jacquart loom (1801) 2. Roberts' lathe (1816) 3. Stephenson's Rocket (1829) 4. Whitworth planing machine (1842) 5. Corliss Steam Engine (1849) 6. Harrison power loom (1851) 7. Babbage difference engine (1855) 8. Singer sewing machine (1856) 9. SS Great Eastern (1858) 10. Hyaatt injection molding machine (1872) 11. Gramme DC machine (1873) 12. Linotype machine (1884) 13. Rover Safety Bicycle (1885) 14. Westinghouse AC system (1887) 15. Berliner gramophone (1892) 16. Parsons steam turbine (1894) 17. Lumiere cine projector (1896) 18. Marconi radio (1897) 19. Diesel engine (1897) 20. Underwood No1 Typewriter (1897) 21. Kodak Brownie camera (1900) 22. Tungram tungsten light bulb (1903) 23. Model T Ford (1908) 24. Hoover suction sweeper (1908) 25. Automatic dial telephone (1910) 26. Holt combine harvester (1911) 27. Black & Decker electric drill (1917) 28. General Electric 'Monitor-Top' refrigerator (1927) 29. LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin (1928) 30. Baird 'Televisor' (1930) 31. Philco-York air conditioner (1938) 32. Siemens electron microscope (1939) 33. Mittlewerk V-2 Rocket (1944) 34. Ampex reel-to-reel tape recorder (1947) 35. GE top-loading washing machine (1947) 36. De Haviland DH106 Comet (1949) 37. Victa lawnmower (1952) 38. Calder Hall nuclear reactor (1956) 39. Unimation industrial robot (1956) 40. Henney Kilowatt electric car (1959) 41. Saturn V rocket (1967) 42. EMI CT scanner (1971) 43. JVC Victor HR-3300 VCR (1976) 44. Sony Walkman (1979) 45. Kuriant wind turbine (1979) 46. IBM S150 PC (1981) 47. Aberdeen MRI scanner (1983) 48. Motorola DynaTAC cell phone (1983) 49. Applied Biosystems DNA sequencing machine (1987) 50. Hubble space telescope Futher reading Index Credits

About the Author :
Eric Chaline is a journalist and writer specialising in history, philosophy and religion. A graduate of Cambridge University and The School of African and Oriental Studies, London, he lived in Tokyo for seven years where he was English-language editor for Kodansha Publishers. More recently he hss published titles on philosphy, including The Book of Zen, and The Book of Gods, and on history, including Traveler's Guide to the Ancient World: Ancient Greece, History's Worst Inventions, History's Greatest Deceptions, History's Worst Predictions, Fifty Animals that Changed the Course of History and the forthcoming Fifty Minerals that Changed the Course of History. He now lives and works in London, where he is conducting doctoral research in sociology at South Bank University.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781743311349
  • Publisher: Allen & Unwin
  • Publisher Imprint: Crows Nest
  • Height: 227 mm
  • No of Pages: 224
  • ISBN-10: 1743311346
  • Publisher Date: 01 Nov 2012
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Width: 170 mm


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