Lowe, Lindsay.

The ages of steam and electricity / [editors, Briony Ryles, Derek Hall]. - Redding, Conn. : Brown Bear Books, c2009. - 112 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm. - Curriculum connections. Technology through the ages .

Includes index.

Water turbines -- Iron and steel -- The Great Exhibition -- Genetics and Mendel -- The electric telegraph -- Telephones -- Submarines -- The periodic table -- Mapping the moon and mars -- Germs and disease -- The internal combustion engine -- Sources of electricity -- The invention of radio -- Elusive electrons -- The first automobiles -- Airships -- Airplanes -- Capturing sound -- Plastics -- Timelines -- Glossary.

ISBN: 9781933834863 (hardcover) 1933834862 (hardcover)

LCCN: 2009029600

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Technology
Technology
Inventions
Inventions
Steam engineering
Electricity

LC Class. No.: T19 / .A35 2010

Dewey Class. No.: 609/.034