History of Invention - Road & Rail Transportation

Product Description

The History of Invention series chronicles the development of the technology on which we rely. Beginning at the boundary of myth and history, the series explores how breakthrough built upon breakthrough to produce machines that changed the world forever. With a mix of scientific reasoning and history, this series tells the stories of the key innovators who changed our world through their foresight and strength of conviction. With simple explanations, diagrams, and photographs, the History of Invention brings to life technology past, present and future. Today we travel by car and train for granted, but imagine what it must have been like when everyone had to walk everywhere and carry their belongings with them. Road and Rail Transport explains why two inventions, the wheel and the engine, changed the way we travel and developed into the modern vehicles of today.