Book Review

Across about 55 large pages march some 400 photos of widely differing sizes and scales, most in color, presented as sharply cutout images against a white ground rather like butterflies pinned in a museum case.

...the first half of the book runs from 600,000 BC up to 1780, the latter half on to the 1990s, with a page of “future trends”. Each photo, ...is keyed to a date,... This disciplined style does aid the reader to appreciate the logical structure of technological change; one look at a page and its epoch is suggested.

...the Foreword makes quite clear that ascribing inventions is no simple or firm matter. This book is an asset for families, classrooms and libraries.

~ Philip amd Phylis Morrison, Scientific American exerpt