Inventors and discoverers : changing our world / [prepared by National Geographic Book Service]. - 1st ed. - Washington, D.C. : National Geographic Society, c1988. - 320 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm.

Includes index.

Discovers & inventors / Daniel J. Boorstin -- The power of steam / Margaret Sedeen - The age of electricity / Stephen S. Hall -- On wheels & wings / Tom D. Crouch -- A world of new materials / Robert Friedel -- Capturing the image / Thomas B. Allen -- Messages by wireless / Fred Strebeigh -- Power particles / Richard Rhodes -- Computers & chips / T.R. Reid -- Engineering life / H. Garrett DeYoung -- Technology of tomorrow / Carole Douglis.

ISBN: 0870447513 (alk. paper) : 0870447521 (deluxe : alk. paper) : 087044753X (lib. bdg. : alk. paper) :

LCCN: 88022375

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Inventions--History.

LC Class. No.: T18 / .I57 1988

Dewey Class. No.: 609