History of Technology Books

History of Technology Books
By Dennis Karwatka, author of Technology's Past

Read the fascinating story of how technology has shaped our world in this handsome three-book series by award-winning author Dennis Karwatka!

These books bring to life the fields of production, communication, and transportation. Each presents a comprehensive overview of the technology's evolution, plus a selection of biographies of its key innovators. Features include:

Upbeat view of humanity's technological history.
Clear, easy-to-follow descriptions of inventions make technology interesting and understandable to all readers.
Discussion of the effects of technical advances on the lives of everyday people gives readers a fascinating glimpse of the day-to-day lives of past generations.
Beautifully illustrated with vintage photos and drawings.

Ideal gifts for technology and history buffs.

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Dennis Karwatka is professor emeritus, Department of Industrial and Engineering Technology, Morehead (KY) State University.

Individual books
8-1/2" x 11"; paperbound

Building Civilization covers construction of roads, canals, bridges, houses, and skyscrapers, plus the development of factories and machine tools. It features such innovators as Simeon North (the pistol manufacturer who invented the milling machine), John Roebling and James Eads (bridge builders), Alice Hamilton (industrial medicine pioneer), Raymond Loewy (designer of streamlined trains and cars, refrigerators, and radios) and more. 232 pages.

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Connecting Civilization includes printing, photography, telegraph, telephone, radio, and television. It also details the fields of electricity/electronics and computers. Those profiled include Fox Talbott and George Eastman (photography), Samuel Morse and Cyrus Field (the telegraph), Lee De Forest and Edwin Armstrong (radio), John Baird and Philo Farnsworth (television), aAda Lovelace and Grace Hopper (computer programming) and more. 243 pages.

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Moving Civilization includes boats, trains, cars, trucks, motorcycles, lighter-than-air craft, airplanes, helicopters, and rockets. Innovators include Henry Ford, Walter Chrysler, Charles Duryea, and Karl Benz (the automobile), Garret Morgan (traffic signal), Orville and Wilbur Wright, Glenn Curtiss, and William Boeing (the airplane), John Ericsson and Isambard Brunel (ships), Ole Evinrude (the outboard boat motor) and more. 238 pages.

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