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  • 31 Inventions that Built Our World: The Making of Modern Life

    31 Inventions that Built Our World by Elledge, Jonn;

    The Making of Modern Life

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    Product details:

    • Publisher Headline Publishing Group
    • Date of Publication 27 August 2026

    • ISBN 9781035432769
    • Binding Hardback
    • No. of pages368 pages
    • Size 240x156 mm
    • Language English
    • Illustrations N/A
    • 700

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    Long description:

    For over 10,000 years, we humans have been busy altering our environment and embracing 'progress', evolving seamlessly from hunter gatherers to the modern urban sophisticates we see ourselves as today.

    But what are the ideas and inventions that enabled humanity to become, by the early 21st century, a majority urban species for the first time? How did the essential infrastructure of modern life - the innovations that we barely even notice, but without which our world would fall apart - actually come to be?

    With his characteristic wit and boundless curiosity, Jonn Elledge invites us to join him on a fascinating and often surprising tour of the ideas and technologies that made modernity possible. From elevators to electric lighting, parks to pedestrian crossings, he guides us through the history of civilisation itself.

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