A Short History of Technology Combining rare literary skill with

Combining rare literary skill with careful research

Reprint of the Harvard University Press

From the dining car of the Orient Express to the kitchen of an average family breakfasting at home

In these delightfully melodramatic accounts

intellectual curiosity

A Short History of Technology Combining rare literary skill withUntil the publication of this book, historians had largely neglected the effects of technology on the course of human history. Political, economic, and social factors had long been taken into account, but technological advances were not studied in the context of the history of the ages in which they occurred. It remained for the authors of this readable, profusely illustrated survey to relate technological developments to the history of each epoch.