Connections

Name: Connections
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ISBN: 9780316116725

ISBN-10: 0316116726

ISBN-13: 9780316116725

Edition: 1995 (Revised)

Authors: James Burke

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In this bestselling book, James Burke examines the ideas, inventions, and coincidences that have culminated in the major technological advances of today. He untangles the pattern of interconnecting events, the accidents of time, circumstance, and place that gave rise to major inventions of the world. Says Burke, "My purpose is to acquaint the reader with some of the forces that have caused change in the past, looking in particular at eight innovations - the computer, the production line, telecommunications, the airplane, the atomic bomb, plastics, the guided rocket, and television - which may be most influential in structuring our own futures.... Each one of these is part of a family of…

Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: Little Brown & Company
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 7.50" wide x 10.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.496
Language: English

James Burke is a London-based writer and television producer best known for his series Connections.



Author's Acknowledgements


Introduction


The Trigger Effect


The Road from Alexandria


Distant Voices


Faith in Numbers


The Wheel of Fortune


Fuel to the Flame


The Long Chain


Eat, Drink and Be Merry


Lighting the Way


Inventing the Future


Further Reading


Index