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9781433941511 | 1 edition (Gareth Stevens Pub Secondary Lib, August 15, 2010), cover price $31.95 | also contains The Age of the Atom: 1900-1946 | About this edition: This book gives a fascinating overview of the scientific breakthroughs that took place during the first half of the 20th century.
Library:
9781433941511 | 1 edition (Gareth Stevens Pub Secondary Lib, August 15, 2010), cover price $31.95 | also contains The Age of the Atom: 1900-1946 | About this edition: This book gives a fascinating overview of the scientific breakthroughs that took place during the first half of the 20th century.
Hardcover:
9781588167224 | 1 edition (Hearst Books, May 5, 2009), cover price $17.95
Paperback:
9780340950920 | Hodder & Stoughton, November 1, 2008, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: The 20th century was a time of extraordinary change as new technologies and inventions emerged at a bewildering rate.
Paperback:
9780814788127 | New York Univ Pr, April 1, 2002, cover price $26.00
Prebinding:
9781439533451 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, August 11, 2008), cover price $29.00 | About this edition: Imagine your average day without zippers, airplanes or vacuum cleaners, without your clock radio or your personal stereo, without photocopiers.
Paperback:
9780340950913 | Hodder & Stoughton, April 28, 2008, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: The 20th century was a time of extraordinary change as new technologies and inventions emerged at a bewildering rate.
Hardcover:
9780340950906 | Hodder & Stoughton, September 6, 2007, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Explores the iconic themes of the century such as: flight, space travel, television, mechanised war, medicine, video games, electronic music, skyscrapers and electronic espionage.
An ingenious, illustrated guide to household gadgets and gizmos explains the inner workings and functions of more than 180 different types of household devices in a volume that groups devices according to the room in which they are located and includes detailed descriptions of each device, information on how it works, photographs for easy identification, and helpful sidebars covering technical issues and trivia. Original.
Paperback:
9781556526701 | Chicago Review Pr, April 1, 2007, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: An ingenious, illustrated guide to household gadgets and gizmos explains the inner workings and functions of more than 180 different types of household devices in a volume that groups devices according to the room in which they are located and includes detailed descriptions of each device, information on how it works, photographs for easy identification, and helpful sidebars covering technical issues and trivia.
Miscellaneous:
9781569762707 | Independent Pub Group, April 1, 2007, cover price $11.95
Prebinding:
9781417771530, titled "Field Guide to Household Technology" | Turtleback Books, April 1, 2007, cover price $26.90 | About this edition: Illustrating how a fire alarm detects smoke and what the Âplasmaâ is in a plasma screen television, this fascinating handbook explains how everyday household devices function and operate.
Paperback:
9781933108094 | Speck Pr, August 1, 2006, cover price $19.00 | About this edition: Promises for the future were made; some sadly broken and some unfortunately honored.
Hardcover:
9781932273038 | Time Inc Home Entertainment, October 1, 2003, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: A richly illustrated overview of the technological innovation of the twentieth century offers profiles of the scientists, inventors, eccentrics, and mechanics who developed such ingenious objects as computers, zippers, cell phones, Teflon, the airplane, the lightbulb, and adhesive bandages.
Looks at the history of a variety of modern inventions, including the television, cameras, toasters, vacuum cleaners, and electric razors.
Hardcover:
9780313039355 | Greenwood Pub Group, April 30, 2003, cover price $54.95
9780313313455 | Greenwood Pub Group, April 30, 2003, cover price $64.00 | About this edition: Looks at the history of a variety of modern inventions, including the television, cameras, toasters, vacuum cleaners, and electric razors.
Hardcover:
9780814788080 | New York Univ Pr, October 1, 2000, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: Imagine your average day without zippers, airplanes or vacuum cleaners, without your clock radio or your personal stereo, without photocopiers.
Hardcover:
9781566490016 | Welcome Rain, April 1, 1999, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Over 185 Color Photographs & Illustrations
Paperback:
9781566490009 | Welcome Rain, April 1, 1999, cover price $16.95
Hardcover:
9781560724322 | Reissue edition (Nova Science Pub Inc, May 1, 1997), cover price $69.00 | About this edition: The technological revolutions of the 20[superscript th] century have brought both great benefits and great environmental and other problems.
Hardcover:
9780393035995 | W W Norton & Co Inc, April 1, 1994, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: Recounts the invention of the zipper and describes how a useless technological novelty worked its way into daily life and took its place as one of the defining artifacts of the twentieth century
Paperback:
9780393313659 | Reprint edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, March 1, 1996), cover price $21.00 | About this edition: Recounts the invention of the zipper and describes how a useless technological novelty worked its way into daily life and took its place as one of the defining artifacts of the twentieth century
Looks at the history, marketing, and impact of fifty of the most significant consumer products and services to have appeared in the last fifty years
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9780890430323 | Consumer Reports Books, October 1, 1986, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Looks at the history, marketing, and impact of fifty of the most significant consumer products and services to have appeared in the last fifty years
Looks at the history, marketing, and impact of fifty of the most significant consumer products and services to have appeared in the last fifty years
Hardcover:
9780890430477 | Slp ltd edition (Consumer Reports Books, May 1, 1986), cover price $75.00 | About this edition: Looks at the history, marketing, and impact of fifty of the most significant consumer products and services to have appeared in the last fifty years
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