| By James Burke. London, England: Macmillan London Ltd 1978. Good Condition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Jacket Fair. Hard Cover. ISBN 0 333 24827 9. First Edition. 304 pages. 'Connections' takes eight innovations on which we now depend and which may prove most influential for this and future generations: the computer, the telephone, the production line, the aeroplane, the atomic bomb, plastics, the guided rocket and television. It untangles the patterns of interconnecting events, the accidents of time, circumstance and place that have given rise to each of these innovations and a host of others on the way. Colour and black & white photographs, illustrations and diagrams. |
