Scientific American inventions and discoveries : all the milestones in ingenuity--from the discovery of fire to the invention of the microwave oven / Rodney Carlisle.
Part I Ancient World through Classical Antiquity, 8000 B.C. to A.D. 330 9 -- Part II Middle Ages through 1599 81 -- Part III Age of Scientific Revolution, 1600 to 1790 149 -- Part IV Industrial Revolution, 1791 to 1890 223 -- Part V Electrical Age, 1891 to 1934 319 -- Part VI Atomic and Electronic Age, 1935 into the 21st Century 397.
