Dimensions
220 x 285 x 21mm
The Stories Behind the Outstanding Breakthroughs of the Modern World.
Who did what, when - and how? Have you ever looked at the everyday objects around you and thought: I wonder who came up with that and how did they do it? Credit cards, calculators, bikinis, mobile phones, stamps, pens, photographs - all the key moments of invention in history are here.
'The Book Of Firsts' captures those exciting moments of conceptual genius that changed the way we live (and explains the stories behind them), and covers the extraordinary one-and-onlys that shook the world, from the first volcano to the first flight across the channel.
Here are the technical innovations, political milestones, medical achievements, cultural breakthroughs, sporting greats and natural phenomena that we have come to take for granted, colourfully explained in all their glory.
