A Brief History of Cities in 32 Inventions The Ideas and Technologies That Made Modernity Possible

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Title: A Brief History of Cities in 32 Inventions The Ideas and Technologies That Made Modernity Possible
Author: Jonn Elledge
Category: Neurology, Education & Teaching, History, Cognitive Psychology, Biological Sciences, Engineering, World History, Evolution, Educational Psychology, Artificial Intelligence
Language: English | 288 str. Pages | ISBN: 9780063286368​

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From the #1 bestselling author of A Brief History of the World in 47 Borders, a collection of 32 brief, highly entertaining and seriously illuminating histories of the inventions that built our modern world
For over 10,000 years, humans have been busy altering our environment, evolving from communities of hunter-gatherers to the independent, metropolitan sophisticates that we see ourselves as today. By the early 21st century, humans had become a majority urban species for the first time. What exactly made that possible, and how did the essential infrastructure of modern life-the innovations that we barely even notice, but without which our world would fall apart-happen?
With his characteristic wit and boundless curiosity, Jonn Elledge invites us to join him on a fascinating and often surprising tour of 35 of the ideas and technologies that made modernity possible. From elevators to electric lighting, street numbering to sewers,...

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