Engineering: An Illustrated History from Ancient Craft to Modern Technology (100 Ponderables) Revised and Updated

REVISED AND UPDATED EDITION

Here is the latest edition of this essential guide to engineering, an authoritative reference book and timeline about how technology has given shape to our civilization. Engineering predates humanity; Homo habilis was knapping hand axes from fist-sized flints more than a thousand centuries before the dawn of modern humans. Admittedly the development of technology was slow back then—but we’ve made up for lost time since. Striding from the Stone Age to Silicon Vall...