The Timeline Book of Science

by Melinda Corey

Year by year, era by era, a record of how science has altered human life, from prehistory to the present. Who discovered the Gulf Stream? Where was cloth first woven? Who constructed the first computer? What caused the extinction of the woolly mammoth in America? THE TIMELINE BOOK OF SCIENCE answers these and thousands of other essential questions, pinpointing the time of each breakthrough, describing its significance, and relating it to other inventions...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 034538265X
• ISBN13: 9780345382658
• Release Date: February 1995
• Publisher: Ballantine Books
• Length: 434 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.3"