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The first great inventions
1951 :: BOOK
Illustrated children's book on the history of invention by Marie Neurath (director of the Isotype Institute) and J. A. Lauwerys, designed by the Isotype Institute. Its 17 illustrated sections run from prehistoric ploughs, the wheel and pottery through clothing materials, the alphabet and the spread of writing, coal mining, steam power, changes to the countryside, coal-gas, oil and electricity, lighting, photography and sound recording, a century of inventions in cycling, telephones and flight, printing and radio news, and future atomic power. Printed in six-colour offset lithography by Waldheim-Eberle, Vienna.
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