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Book, 2005
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Book, 2005
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Great Inventions is a captivating chronicle of major technological advances that have shaped everyday life over the past two centuries. Each book provides an in-depth look at the dedicated individuals behind each invention, a history of each invention's development, and its present-day use and continuing evolution. Engaging text and informative sidebars join with archival and contemporary images to demonstrate how innovative thinking and determination can change the world. Presents the history of the steam engine, beginning with early experiments using steam in the first century A.D. through the steam turbine in the twenty-first century, and includes future uses for steam, including powering home generators.
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