Scientific American inventions and discoveries : all the milestones in ingenuity--from the discovery of fire to the invention of the microwave oven /

Carlisle, Rodney P.

Scientific American inventions and discoveries : all the milestones in ingenuity--from the discovery of fire to the invention of the microwave oven / Rodney Carlisle. - Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons, c2004. - ix, 502 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Includes index.

0471244104 (acid-free paper)

2003023258


Inventions--History--Encyclopedias.
Inventions--United States--Encyclopedias.
Technology--History--Encyclopedias.
Technological innovations--Encyclopedias.

T15 / .C378 2004

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