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A survey of inventions throughout history, from the wheel to virtual-reality games, this is fun to browse through, for young & old alike. Diagrams of the inventions, along with commentary about how they affected life in their time period, are included. Salk's vaccine is part of the chapter covering the 1950s. Timeline, glossary, & index. Part of the Timelines series.Turvey, Peter is the author of 'Inventions: Inventors and Ingenious Ideas', published 1994 under ISBN 9780531157138 and ISBN 053115713X.
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