Sterling Books Engineering Ponderables By Tom Jackson Hardcover Book

Sterling Books Engineering Ponderables By Tom Jackson Hardcover Book

Here is the essential guide to engineering, an authoritative reference
book and timeline about how technology
has given shape to our civilization.
Engineering predates humanity;
Homo
habilis
was knapping hand axes from
fist-sized flints more than a thousand
centuries before the dawn of modern
humans. Admittedly the development
of technology was slow back then—but we’ve made up for
lost time since. Striding from the Stone Age to Silicon Valley
in 100 steps, we will see how our inventors have seized
every scientific breakthrough, new material, and better
understanding to improve daily life and expand the scope of
civilization. From reshaping rivers and containing the forces
of nature to constructing artificial lifeforms and perhaps one
day even taming alien planets, engineers think big. These
men and women of action make our world.