The new edition of a milestone work on the global history of technology. This milestone history of technology, first published in 1990 and now revised and expan

Most general histories of technology are Eurocentrist, focusing on a main line of Western technology that stretches from the Greeks is through the computer. In

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This book presents an evolutionary theory of technological change based upon recent scholarship in the history of technology and upon relevant material drawn fr

Describes the technology used in Mesopotamia to improve agriculture, construction, transportation, writing, and mathematics.