Wondrous Contrivances: Technology at the Threshold

By Merritt Ierley

"The great glory of the Americans is in their wondrous contrivances," wrote Anthony Trollope in 1862. Even then, new technologies seemed to annihilate time and space. The first scheduled train ride,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0609608363
• ISBN13: 9780609608364
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: Clarkson Potter
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.3" x 1.3" x 5.5"

Customer Reviews

Provides a new type of history of emerging technologies

From the invention of the cell phone - in the unlikely era of 1901 - to late 1800s television testing, Wondrous Contrivances provides a new type of history of emerging technologies which actually emerged far before their published development. Especially intriguing are parallels drawn between inventions of yesteryear and modern times.