From the hand axe and mathematics to IC chips and the laser, each technological touchstone in human history is described and placed in historical context. Each profile includes the inventor of the item (if we know it), how the idea developed and how it works, the immediate impact of the idea, and the technological 'children' of the idea. The time span is 3500 bc to today. The author closes with an epilogue that looks to the future, a bibliography, and a list of great Web sites for young inventors.

 

This book is part of a book series called Way We Live .

There are 112 pages in this book. This book was published 2006 by Scholastic US .

Steve Tomecek, the Executive Director and founder of Science Plus, Inc. , is the author of numerous books, including three other Jump Into Science titles. He was the winner of the 1996 American Institute of Physics Excellence in Science Writing Award. He lives in Bellerose, New York.