TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hart-Davis,Adam
TI  - What the past did for us : : a brief history of ancient inventions 
SN  - 9780563522072
AV  - T 16 H326w 2004
U1  - 609 
PY  - 2004///
CY  - London
PB  - BBC Books
KW  - Historia de los inventos
KW  - Inventos
KW  - Historia
KW  - Tecnología
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
ER  -