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Brain power, what's the big idea? : 2,400,000 years of inventions, David Stewart

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Brain power

David Stewart

what's the big idea? : 2,400,000 years of inventions

Describes the most important inventions from the Stone Age to the beginning of the twenty-first century. Organization is by historical periods

Early people : 2,400,000 to 8000 B.C. -- The first cities : 11,000 to 2000 B.C. -- The ancient world : 3000 to 230 B.C. -- The ancient Greeks : 285 to 150 B.C. -- The Romans : 73 B.C. to AD 476 -- The Dark Ages : AD 300 to 950 -- The early Middle Ages : 1066 to 1286 -- Castles at war : 1300 to 1364 -- Feudal society : 1295 to 1400 -- The Renaissance : 1415 to 1565 -- New horizons : 1492 to 1590 -- Particles and planets : 1572 to 1661 -- Building big machines : 1665 to 1752 -- New steam power : 1755 to 1792 -- The electric revolution : 1799 to 1824 -- Trains and tracks : 1819 to 1840 -- Factories and tools : 1833 to 1859 -- Bright lights, big cities : 1852 to 1879 -- New communications : 1876 to 1891 -- Learning to fly : 1893 to 1901 -- Mass production : 1901 to 1912 -- The broadcasting age : 1912 to 1926 -- Sophisticated weapons : 1923 to 1946 -- Global superpowers : 1941 to 1958 -- The race for space : 1960 to 1969 -- Modern technology : 1970 to 1979 -- The final frontier : 1980 to 1987 -- Living in a cyberworld : 1990 to 1999 -- The new millennium : 2000 to ?

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