1,000 Inventions and Discoveries
- ISBN-10
- 146542038X
- ISBN-13
- 9781465420381
- Category
- Inventions
- Pages
- 256
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2014-06-16
- Publisher
- DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
- Author
- Roger Bridgman
Description
Summarizes one thousand notable inventions and discoveries of ancient and modern times, from 3,000,000 B.C. to the beginning of the twenty-first century A.D.
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