What the past did for us : a brief history of ancient inventions / Adam Hart-Davis.

By:

Hart-Davis, Adam (Adam John), 1943-

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Publication details: London : BBC Books, 2004.Description: 224 pages, 16 pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cmISBN:

9780563522072
0563522070

Other title:

Brief history of ancient inventions

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LOC classification:

T 16 H326w 2004

Contents:

The Britons-- The Mesopotamians-- The Egyptians-- The Indians-- The Chinese-- The Greeks-- The Romans-- The Arabs-- The Mesoamericans.

Summary: A journey to the ancient world reveals an astonishing array of innovations that occurred long before many of us would ever have thought they had. The Greeks were responsible for building the first known computer, around 100 B.C. The Romans--famous for their road building--also gave us double glazing and central heating. All in all we owe a huge debt to the ancients--from the Chinese who invented paper money and the wheelbarrow, to the early Britons who developed the first housing estate at Skara Brae, home to the world's oldest known lavatories.

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Includes Index

" Published to accompany the television series ("What the past did for Us"), first broadcast on BBC2 in 2005"

The Britons-- The Mesopotamians-- The Egyptians-- The Indians-- The Chinese-- The Greeks-- The Romans-- The Arabs-- The Mesoamericans.

A journey to the ancient world reveals an astonishing array of innovations that occurred long before many of us would ever have thought they had. The Greeks were responsible for building the first known computer, around 100 B.C. The Romans--famous for their road building--also gave us double glazing and central heating. All in all we owe a huge debt to the ancients--from the Chinese who invented paper money and the wheelbarrow, to the early Britons who developed the first housing estate at Skara Brae, home to the world's oldest known lavatories.

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