Inventions A Visual Encyclopedia compressed

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Inventions
a visual encyclopedia

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s m i t h s o n i a n
Inventions
a visual encyclopedia

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Contents

EARLY BREAKTHROUGHS
6

Early tools
8
Farming
10
Inventing the wheel
12
Traveling by road
14
Sailing the seas
16
Sailing ships
18
Archimedes
20
The beginnings of industry
22
Early mechanical devices
24
Designing the future
26
The power of gunpowder
28
Gunpowder weapons
30
The printing revolution
32
Writing and printing
34
Zhang Heng
36

MAKING THE MODERN WORLD
38

Tools
40
Tools workshop
42
Feeding the world
44
Working the land
46
Construction
48
Alfred Nobel
50
Industrialization
52
Smart production line
54
Powering up
56
Renewable energy
58
Nicola Tesla
60
Plastics
62
Man-made materials
64
Buying and selling
66
Money
68
Online superstore
70
At the office
72
3-D printing
74
Robots
76
Helpful robots
78
The robots are coming!
80

GET MOVING
82

Bicycle
84
Two wheels
86
Skating on air
88
Motorcycles
90
Cars for the masses
92
Cars, cars, cars
94

DK London
Senior Editor Carron Brown Senior Art Editor Rachael Grady
US Editor Megan Douglass US Executive Editor Lori Cates Hand
Editorial team Ann Baggaley, Ashwin Khurana, Camilla Hallinan,
Jessica Cawthra, Sarah Edwards
Art Editors Chrissy Barnard, Louise Dick
Jacket Designer Surabhi Wadhwa-Gandhi Jacket Editor Claire Gell
Jacket Design Development Manager Sophia MTT
Producer, Pre-production Gillian Reid Senior Producer Angela Graef
Managing Editor Francesca Baines Managing Art Editor Philip Letsu
Publisher Andrew Macintyre
Associate Publishing Director Liz Wheeler
Art Director Karen Self Design Director Phil Ormerod
Publishing Director Jonathan Metcalf

DK Delhi
Senior Editor Sreshtha Bhattacharya Senior Art Editor Ira Sharma
Project Editor Priyanka Kharbanda
Editorial team Ankona Das, Neha Ruth Samuel, Rupa Rao, Vatsal Verma
Art Editors Heena Sharma, Mansi Agrawal, Sachin Singh, Shailee Khurana
Jacket Designer Juhi Sheth Jackets Editorial Coordinator Priyanka Sharma
Senior DTP Designer Harish Aggarwal
DTP Designers Sachin Gupta, Mohd Rizwan, Vikram Singh, Bimlesh Tiwary
Picture Researchers Nishwan Rasool, Deepak Negi
Managing Jackets Editor Saloni Singh
Picture Research Manager Taiyaba Khatoon
Pre-production Manager Balwant Singh
Production Manager Pankaj Sharma
Managing Editor Kingshuk Ghoshal Managing Art Editor Govind Mittal

Written by John Farndon, Jacob Field, Joe Fullman,
Andrew Humphreys, and Giles Sparrow
Consultant: Roger Bridgman

First American Edition, 2018
Published in the United States by DK Publishing
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