Stephen van Dulken - Patenten op de 19e eeuw / 20e eeuw
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Stephen van Dulken - Patenten op de 19e eeuw / 20e eeuw - Diemen - Uitgeverij Veen Magazines BV - 2003 - 1st edition - 2 parts - 218; [250] pp - Paperbacks - 15 x 23 cm.
Condition: As new.
Dutch translation of Inventing the 19th / 20th Century (2000); an overview of inventions from 1837 (the Telegraph) to about 1995 (Cloning) with surprising facts. Illustrated with black and white reproductions. With chronological list, bibliography and index.
¶ Includes the invention of bottle cap, fountain pen, jeans, tennis net, mouse trap, machine gun, barbed wire, roller skates, paper bag, fax, zeppelin, diesel engine, dishwasher; Meccano, neon light, plug, desk lamp, ballpoint pen, tupperware, waterbed, lava lamp, bar code, buggy, snowboard, the MRI scan and VIAGRA.
