Invention and technology /
Milton Lomask.
- 1st ed.
- New York : Toronto : New York : Scribner's ; Maxwell Macmillan Canada ; Maxwell Macmillan International, c1991.
- x, 262 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- Great lives .
- Great lives (Charles Scribner's Sons) .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-252) and index.
Brief life stories of twenty-seven persons whose inventions or discoveries have altered the environment to a marked degree. Includes a list of important dates in the history of invention and technology.