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Title

Scientific American inventions and discoveries : all the milestones in ingenuity--from the discovery of fire to the invention of the microwave oven / Rodney Carlisle.

Author

Carlisle, Rodney P.

Publication

Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons, ©2004.

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Description

ix, 502 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Summary

From the discovery of fire to the invention of the steam engine and the Pentium chip, Scientific American Inventions and Discoveries documents some of the most important discoveries in the scientific world, as well as the practical innovations that have forever changed the life of the human race. This engagingly written, authoritative book organizes more than 400 lively, detailed entries into chronological, easy-to-browse sections. Rodney Carlisle reveals the fascinating intersection of science and technology through the ages, examining the different styles of creation and innovation. We see how humans acquired an increasing body of ordinary procedures and instruments, from making fire and harvesting crops to living in shelters. Over time, specialists emerged, perfecting and passing down special arts such as carpentry, masonry, and metal smithing. They flourished in antiquity and organized into craft guilds in many of the societies of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. We see how these artisans developed new instruments that helped bring about a refinement of scientific observation, allowing numerous leaps forward in measurement and knowledge of nature. Engineers and inventors changed the nature of production during the Industrial Revolution-moving from shop work to the large-scale factory-and created a host of new devices, from steam railroads to internal combustion engines. As scientific training began to affect the world of technology, a burst of inventions in the early 1900s changed human life more drastically than ever before. And, even as horrific instruments of warfare were born, a host of technologies was introduced in the electronics, nuclear, and biological fields that held out the promise of future peaceful progress. Featuring numerous illustrations and informative primary source sidebars, Scientific American Inventions and Discoveries is essential for anyone who wants to delve into the history of science and technology.

Subject

• Inventions > History > Encyclopedias
• Inventions > United States > Encyclopedias
• Technology > History > Encyclopedias
• Technological innovations > Encyclopedias
• Inventions
• Technological innovations
• Technology
• Technische Innovation
• Erfindung
• Technik
• United States
• USA

Genre/Form

• encyclopedias.
• Encyclopedias.
• History.
• Encyclopédies.

Note

• Includes index.

Contents

• The Ancient World through Classical Antiquity, 8000 B.C. to A.D. 330 -- The Middle Ages through 1599 -- The Age of Scientific Revolution, 1600 to 1790 -- The Industrial Revolution, 1791 to 1890 -- The Electrical Age, 1891 to 1934 -- The Atomic and Electronic Age, 1935 into the 21st Century.
• pt. I. The Ancient World through Classical Antiquity, 8000 B.C. to A.D. 330 -- Agriculture. -- Alphabet. -- Aqueducts. -- Arch. -- Archimedes' Principle. -- Archimedes Screw. -- Axe. -- Basket. -- Beer. -- Board Games. -- Brass. -- Bronze. -- Canals. -- Cemeteries. -- Central Heating. -- Chain. -- Cities. -- Column. -- Copper. -- Crossbow. -- Dams and Dikes. -- Days of the Week. -- Domestication of animals. -- Domestication of the Horse. -- Dye. -- Eratosthenes' Sieve. -- Fire. -- Geometry. -- Glass. -- Harpoon. -- Ice Cream. -- Ink. -- Latitudinal zones. -- Leather. -- Library. -- Lighthouse. -- Maritime Commerce. -- Metal working. -- Migratory herd following. -- Mining. -- Mirrors. -- Nomadic Herd Tending. -- Paint. -- Plumbing. -- Pottery. -- Pulley. -- Pyramids. -- Pythagorean Theorem. -- Roads. -- Rope. -- Shelter. -- Sickle. -- Silk making. -- Soap. -- Solder. -- Stone tools. -- Textiles. -- Theater. -- Umbrella. -- Wheel. -- Wine. -- Wooden furniture. -- Woodworking tools. -- Yoke -- pt. II. The Middle Ages through 1599 -- Algebra. -- Anatomy. -- Astrolabe. -- Atlas. -- Canal Lock. -- Cannon. -- Cathedral. -- Chain mail. -- Chimney. -- Clock. -- Comet Paths as orbits. -- Compass. -- Corset. -- Crank. -- Cross Staff. -- Decimal numbers. -- Distilled spirits. -- Dome. -- Elements. -- Engraving. -- Eustacian Tube. -- Eyeglasses. -- Fallopian Tubes. -- Flintlock. -- Fork. -- Guitar. -- Gunpowder. -- Heliocentric Solar System. -- Horse collar. -- Horseshoe. -- Lateen Sails. -- Lead pencil. -- Lenses. -- Longbow. -- Matchlock. -- Medicine. -- Mercator Projection. -- Movable type. -- Musical notation. -- Musket. -- Oil painting. -- Paddlewheel Boat. -- Paper. -- Playing cards. -- Plow. -- Reed instruments. -- Sailing vessels. -- Screw Lathe. -- Ship's log. -- Shorthand. -- Siege Weapons. -- Spinning Wheel. -- Stirrup. -- Sugar. -- Theodolite. -- Three-field system. -- Veinous Valves. -- Watch. -- Waterwheel. -- Windmill. -- Wire. -- Zero -- pt. III. The Age of Scientific Revolution, 1600 to 1790 -- Adding Machine. -- Balance Spring. -- Bernoulli's Principle. -- Bode's Law. -- Boring Mill. -- Boyle's Law. -- Calculus. -- Carbon Dioxide. -- Cartesian Mechanistic Science. -- Cassegrain Telescope. -- Cast Iron. -- Cellular Structure of plants. -- Charles's Law. -- Chlorine bleach. -- Chronometer. -- Circulation of Blood. -- Circulation of Water. -- Coal Gas. -- Condom. -- Coulomb's Law. -- Diving Bell. -- Fermat's Last Theorem. -- Flush Toilet. -- Flying Shuttle. -- Glauber's Salt. -- Governor. -- Hot air balloon. -- Kepler's Laws. -- Law of Elasticity. -- Laws of Motion and Gravity. -- Locks. -- Logarithms. -- Magnetism. -- Map of the Moon. -- Mercury Barometer. -- Microscope. -- Microscopic Organisms. -- Orrery. -- Oxygen. -- Papier-mache. -- Pascal's Law. -- Pendulum. -- Pendulum Clock. -- Piano. -- Pressure Cooker. -- Red Corpuscles of blood. -- Refraction of Light. -- Rifled Gun Barrels. -- Saturn's Rings and Moons. -- Scientific Societies. -- Sextant. -- Size and Shape of the Earth. -- Specific and Latent Heat. -- Spectrum of Light. -- Speed of Light. -- Spinning Jenny. -- Steam Engine. -- Telescope. -- Thermometer and temperature scale. -- Thoracic Duct. -- Transpiration of Water in Plants. -- Universal Joint. -- Uranus. -- Vacuum pump. -- Vernier. -- Water as a Compound -- pt. IV. The Industrial Revolution, 1791 to 1890 -- Elements Discovered 1790-1890. -- Airbrake. -- Aluminum. -- Ampere's Law. -- Analytic Engine. -- Anesthetics. -- Asphalt Paving . -- Automobile. -- Avogadro's Law. -- Ball bearings. -- Barbed Wire. -- Battery. -- Bicycle. -- Boltzmann Constant. -- Braille. -- Bunsen Burner. -- Camera. -- Canned Food. -- Card Punch Machine. -- Celluloid. -- Cigarette. -- Coal Oil. -- Cotton Gin. -- Crookes Tube. -- Daguerreotype. -- Drive chains. -- Dynamite. -- Electric light. -- Electric Motor and Electric Generator. -- Electromagnetism. -- Elevator. -- Faraday's Laws. -- Froude Number. -- Galvanometer. -- Guillotine. -- Hydraulic jack. -- Hydraulic Press. -- Interchangeable parts. -- Internal combustion (four-stroke) engine. -- Internal combustion (two-stroke) engine. -- Lawn mower. -- Laws of Thermodynamics. -- Linotype Machine. -- Machine Gun. -- Matches. -- Maxwell's Equations. -- McCormick Reaper. -- Microphone. -- Neptune. -- Ohm's Law. -- Oil Drilling. -- Opthalmascope. -- Parachute. -- Pasteurization. -- Periodic Law. -- Phonograph. -- Pneumatic Tire. -- Pressure Gauge. -- Propeller-driven ship. -- Refrigeration. -- Revolver. -- Rubber. -- Semaphore. -- Sewing machine. -- Skyscraper. -- Smokeless Powder. -- Spectroscope. -- Steam Locomotive. -- Steam railroad. -- Steam turbine. -- Steamboat. -- Steel. -- Steel Cable Suspension Bridge. -- Steel-tipped Pen. -- Stethoscope. -- Stirling Engine. -- Streetcars. -- Submarine cable. -- Telegraph. -- Telephone. -- Thermocouple. -- Torpedo. -- Typewriter. -- Water turbine -- pt. V. The Electrical Age, 1891 to 1934 -- Aircraft Carrier. -- Airplane. -- Aspirin. -- Bakelite. -- Battleship. -- Brassiere. -- Breakfast cereal. -- Carburetor. -- Catalytic Cracking of Petroleum. -- Caterpillar track. -- Cellophane. -- Deep-freezing Food. -- Destroyer. -- Diesel Engine. -- Differential analyzer. -- Diode. -- Dirigible. -- Electric Blanket. -- Electric Chair. -- Electric Charge of Electron. -- Electron. -- Electron Microscope. -- Encryption Machine. -- Escalator. -- Facsimile or Fax machine. -- Freon. -- Geiger Counter . -- Gyrocompass. -- Hearing Aid. -- Inert gas elements. -- Instant Coffee. -- Insulin. -- Ionosphere. -- Isotopes. -- Jukebox. -- Lie Detector. -- Liquid Fueled rockets. -- Lorentz Transformation. -- Loudspeaker. -- Motion Pictures . -- Neutron. -- Norden Bomb Sight. -- Oxyacetylene welding. -- Parking Meter. -- Penicillin. -- Photon. -- Photoelectric cell. -- Planck's Constant. -- Pluto. -- Polyethylene. -- Positron. -- Radio. -- Radio Broadcasting. -- Radioactivity. -- Radium. -- Raman Spectrography. -- Rayon. -- Reinforced Concrete. -- Safety Razor. -- Sonar. -- Stainless Steel . -- Submarine. -- Subway trains. -- Superconductivity. -- Tank. -- Tape recording. -- Television . -- Thermos Bottle. -- Traffic Lights. -- Triode valve. -- Uncertainty Principle. -- Vitamins. -- X-ray machine. -- X-rays. -- Zipper -- pt. VI. The Atomic and Electronic Age, 1935 into the 21st Century. Aerosol Spray. -- Aqualung. -- Artificial Satellite. -- Autopilot. -- Ballpoint Pen. -- Cardiac Pacemaker. -- Charge-Coupled Device (CCD). -- Chlordane. -- Composite materials. -- Computer. -- Computer chip. -- Copy machine. -- Cyclotron. -- Dacron. -- Deuterium. -- DDT. -- Digital Camera. -- DNA. -- Ejection Seat. -- Fiber Optics. -- Fuel Cell. -- Fluorescent Lighting. -- Genetic Engineering 1973. -- Helicopter. -- Holography. -- Hovercraft. -- Human Genome. -- Intercontinental ballistic missile. -- Internet. -- In-Vitro Fertilization. -- Jet Engine aircraft. -- Kevlar. -- Kidney Dialysis machine. -- Laser. -- Laser Disc. -- Light Emitting Diode. -- Long-playing record. -- Magnetic Resonance Imaging. -- Mathematical Principle of Computing. -- Microwave Oven. -- Microwave transmission of data and voice. -- Music Synthesizer. -- Nuclear Reactor. -- Nuclear Weapons. -- Numerical Controlled machines. -- Nylon. -- Oral Contraceptive. -- Planets outside Solar System. -- Plutonium. -- Polaroid Camera. -- Printed Circuit. -- Proximity Fuse. -- Quark. -- Radar. -- Radiocarbon Dating. -- Radio telescope. -- Radio-Thermal Generator. -- Schnorkel. -- Streptomycin. -- Technicolor. -- Teflon. -- Thermonuclear weapon. -- Three-dimensional motion pictures. -- Transistor. -- Uranium Isotope Separation. -- Van Allen Belts. -- Vertical Take-Off and Landing Aircraft. -- Video tape recorder. -- Wankel Engine. -- Wide-screen motion pictures.

ISBN

• 0471244104
• 9780471244103

LCCN

2003023258

OCLC

• ocm53284995
• 53284995
• SCSB-1348283

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library