The trigger effect -- The road from Alexandria -- Distant voices -- Faith in numbers -- The wheel of fortune -- Fuel to the flame -- The long chain -- Eat, drink and be merry -- Lighting the way -- Inventing the future.
Explores the accidents
of time, place, and circumstance that culminated in the century's technological achievements: the computer, the telephone, the production line, the airplane, the atomic bomb, the guided rocket, plastics, and television.
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