Ancient Inventions

  • Ancient Inventions
    Ancient Inventions
    By Nick Thorpe, Peter J. James, I. J. Thorpe

    A guide to ancient accomplishments and inventions unearths the origins of modern creations, including computers in ancient Greece, plastic surgery in India in the first century B.C., and a postal service in medieval Baghdad

  • Ancient Inventions
    By Peter James, Nick Thorpe

    "IT'S CHOCKABLOCK WITH CURIOUS LORE....[James and Thorpe] have amassed scores of persuasive testimonials of primeval ingenuity." --The Boston Globe We in the twentieth century tend to assume that our era...

  • Ancient Inventions: Ahead of Their Time, Inventions
    Ancient Inventions: Ahead of Their Time, Inventions
    By Teresa Turner

    ANCIENT INVENTION:AHEAD OF THEIR TIME NF

  • Ancient Inventions
    By Peter James

    It is doubtful that anyone could examine [this book] without coming away enlightened in one of its broadly ranging areas." --Library Journal AN ALTERNATE SELECTION OF THE QUALITY PAPERBACK BOOK CLUB AND THE NATURAL SCIENCE BOOK CLUB

  • Ancient Inventions: Ahead of Their Time
    Ancient Inventions: Ahead of Their Time
    By Steck-Vaughn Company, Steck-Vaughn

    Ancient Inventions: Ahead of Their Time