In this bestselling book, James Burke examines the ideas, inventions, and coincidences that have culminated in the major techlogical advances of today. He untangles the pattern of interconnecting events, the accidents of time, circumstance, and place that gave rise to major inventions of the world. Says Burke, My purpose is to acquaint the reader with some of the forces that have caused change in the past, looking in particular at eight invations - the computer, the production line, telecommunications, the airplane, the atomic bomb, plastics, the guided rocket, and television - which may be most influential in structuring our own futures.... Each one of these is part of a family of similar devices, and is the result of a sequence of closely connected events extending from the ancient world until the present day. Each has ermous potential for humankind's benefit - or destruction.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Macmillan Audio
ISBN-10
1559270667
ISBN-13
9781559270663
eBay Product ID (ePID)
189689171
Product Key Features
Author
James Burke
Format
Audio Cassette
Language
English
Subject
Popular Science
Additional Product Features
Running Time
180
Read by
James Burke
Author Biography
James Burke, the BBC's chief reporter on the Apollo missions to the moon, was awarded the Royal Television Society silver medal in 1973 and the gold medal in 1974. Connections was over two years in the making, the research and filming taking the author to twnety-three countries. James Burke lives in London.
Out-Of-Print Date
27/05/2015
Date of Publication
15/06/1990
Contained Items Statement
2 Audio Cassettes
Edition Statement
Abridged Edition
Country of Publication
United States
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