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The Illustrated Timeline of Inventions: A Crash Course in Words & Pictures, by Craig Sandler, is one of those handy reference books that info-junkies will want to keep close at hand.
Richly illustrated, the Timeline covers man’s inventions, beginning with the spear and ending with Wikipedia—with just about everything else you could think of in between. Prozac, electricity, cash register, Mason jars, linoleum, plow, submarine, bayonets, telescope, globe, anchor, abacus, fishing hook.
The illustrations are beautifull rendered, and the sidebars illuminating (did you know there was a patent for the safety pin?). Discover which civilization was the first to use irrigation, or why the QWERTY keyboard on a typewriter came into being. Learn too, about the people you SHOULD know, but don’t: George Stephenson, Oliver Evans, Joseph Henry, and Jacob Perkins.
Each page is color-coded so readers can easily see where an invention took place, i.e. Europe is tagged blue, Asia red, Africa orange and North America green.
The Timeline is easy to use, crammed with enough info to keep the info-junkies happy for months.
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