Milestones of science and technology : making the modern world / Peter Morris, executive editor ; James C. Hart, managing editor ; Lesley Henderson, further reading editor ; Philip Sayer, photographs.

Essays describing 100 inventions selected from the Science Museum collection.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 242-254) and index.

Cover; Copyright; CONTENTS; Introduction by Robert Bud; Byzantine Sundial-Calendar, c. 520; Islamic Glass Alembic, c. 1100; The Giustiniani Medicine Chest, c. 1566; The Standards of the Realm, 1495-1601; Slide Rule by Robert Bissaker, 1654; Napier's Bones, c. 1690; Hauksbee's Air Pump, c. 1709; The Original Orrery, c. 1712; Sisson's Rule, c. 1742; Shelton's Astronomical Regulator, c. 1768; Arkwright's Spinning Machine, 1769; Troughton's Dividing Engine, 1778; Herschel's Seven-Foot Telescope, c. 1781; Boulton and Watt Rotative Engine, 1788; Symington's Marine Engine, 1788.

Ramsden's Three-Foot Theodolite, 1791 Maudslay's Screw-Cutting Lathe, c. 1797; Herschel's Prism and Mirror, c. 1800; Coalbrookdale by Night, 1801; Portsmouth Block-Making Machinery, c. 1803; Trevithick's High-Pressure Engine, c. 1806; Dalton's Wooden Atoms, c. 1810; The Comet Steam Engine, 1812; Puffing Billy, 1813; Davy's Safety Lamp, 1815; Faraday's Chemical Chest, 1825; Lister's Microscope, 1826; Bell's Reaper, 1827; Stephenson's Rocket, 1829; Babbage's Calculating Engines, 1832; Talbot's Latticed Window, 1835; Cooke and Wheatstone's Telegraph, 1837; The Brougham, 1838.

Early Daguerreotypes of Italy, 1841 The Rosse Mirror, 1842; Elias Howe's Sewing Machine, 1846; Joule's Paddle-Wheel Apparatus, 1849; Original Mauve Dye, 1856; Lewis Carroll's Photographs, 1857; Thomson's Mirror Galvanometer, 1858; The Kew Photoheliograph, 1858; The First Plastic, 1862; The Lenoir Gas Engine, c. 1865; Bessemer Converter, 1865; Swan and Raven, 1867-70; Holmes' Lighthouse Generator, 1867; Julia Margaret Cameron's Iago, 1867; Crookes' Radiometer, c. 1875; Bell's Osborne Telephone, 1878; Wimshurst's Electrostatic Machine, 1882; The First Turbo-Generator, 1884.

Rover Safety Bicycle, 1885 The Kodak Camera, 1888; Early Cine-Cameras, c. 1888; Locomotive From the First London "Tube" Railway, 1890; Parsons' Marine Steam Turbine, 1894; Panhard et Levassor Car, 1895; Coming South, Perth Station, 1895; Thomson's Cathode-Ray Tube, 1897; Marconi's First Tuned Transmitter, c. 1899; Poulsen's Telegraphone, c. 1903; Fleming's Original Thermionic Valves, 1904; Mass Production and the Model T Ford, 1908; Haber's Synthetic Ammonia, 1909; The Munitions Girls, 1918; Aston's Mass Spectrograph, 1919; Alcock and Brown's Vickers Vimy, 1919.

Austin Seven Prototype Car, 1922 Dobson Spectrophotometer, 1924; Logie Baird's Television Apparatus, 1926; Penicillin, 1928; Supermarine S.6B Floatplane, 1931; Lawrence's Eleven-Inch Cyclotron, 1932; Cockcroft and Walton's Accelerator, 1932; Chadwick's Paraffin Wax, 1932; The Discovery of Polyethylene, 1933; The Boeing 247D, 1933; Discovery of Artificial Radioactivity, 1934; Reynolds' X-Ray Machine, 1935; Original Radar Receiver, 1935; Manchester Differential Analyzer, 1935; Emitron Camera Tube, 1935; Mallard, 1938; The Bakelite Coffin, 1938; Randall and Boot's Cavity Magnetron, 1940. The Rolls-Royce Merlin, 1940.

Follows key the developments in science, technology, and medicine, from the Byzantine sundial-calendar (circa 520) to the prototype "Clock of the long now" (1999). In doing so, one can follow the creative achievements that have shaped the modern world.

The Kodak camera, the CT scanner, the steam turbine, the telephone--such inventions not only changed the course of history, but also changed our understanding of what the human race could achieve. An authoritative guide to the remarkable history of human innovation, this second edition, published in collaboration with London's Science Museum, brings readers up to date with insightful examinations of the new, present-day technologies society already takes for granted--from magnetic resonance imaging to the Internet.

Revision of: Making of the modern world : milestones of science and technology / edited by Neil Cossons with Andrew Nahum and Peter Turvey -- London : John Murray, 1992.

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