From Handcrafted to High Tech (Paperback)

Lingua: inglese

Editore: Independently Published, 2026

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Paperback. How did the world move from hand-forged tools and horse-drawn travel to smartphones, artificial intelligence, and machines that can communicate across the globe in seconds?From Handcrafted to High-Tech takes readers on an entertaining journey through the inventions, machines, and breakthroughs that transformed everyday life. Written in an inviting large-print format, this fascinating collection blends surprising trivia, memorable facts, and revealing stories from the earliest days of craftsmanship to the modern digital age.Discover how interchangeable parts changed manufacturing, why the assembly line reshaped industry, and how electricity transformed homes, workplaces, and cities. Explore the inventions behind trains, automobiles, airplanes, telephones, household appliances, medical equipment, recorded music, television, computers, smartphones, and artificial intelligence.Along the way, you will meet determined inventors, curious experimenters, skilled workers, and unexpected discoveries that changed history. Some breakthroughs were carefully planned. Others began with a mistake, a failed experiment, a spilled substance, or an idea that seemed useless at first.Each chapter contains 25 engaging trivia facts and 3 entertaining anecdotes, giving readers a total of 350 facts and 42 stories. Every entry is presented in short, readable passages designed to inform without becoming overwhelming.This book is ideal for seniors, trivia fans, lifelong learners, history enthusiasts, technology lovers, and anyone who remembers rotary phones, typewriters, record players, early television, or the arrival of the personal computer. It can be enjoyed alone, shared with family and friends, or used for group discussions, senior activities, and trivia gatherings.From Handcrafted to High-Tech is more than a collection of inventions. It is the story of human curiosity, practical problem-solving, persistence, and the remarkable journey from making objects one at a time to building a world connected by technology, presented in large print text. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Titolo
From Handcrafted to High Tech (Paperback)
Autore
Adicus Abbott
Editore
Independently Published
Anno di pubblicazione
2026
Condizione
new
Rilegatura
Paperback
Lingua
inglese
ISBN 13
9798187597215

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