Explores how the development of new technologies in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, including theories about gravity and motion, the production of cheaper iron, and the invention of the steam engine, aided in the development of humankind.
Provides an overview of the periodic table and describes the basic characteristics of metals and their atomic structures, reactivity, properties, discovery sources, and uses.
Describes how technological advances in China and the Arab world during the medieval period helped make up for the lack of scientific discovery that took place in Europe after the fall of the Roman Empire and explores how the Renaissance became a great period of European learning and discovery.
Explores how new technologies, including the cultivation of plants and animals, the use of fire, and the invention of writing, influenced the development of humankind from prehistoric times through the classical period.
Explores how technological discoveries and advances during the nineteenth century, including the spread of the railroads, the electric telegraph, and the telephone, influenced life on Earth.
Explores how technological advances in the early twentieth century, including television, radio, radar, and computers, laid the foundation for many modern inventions that have changed life on Earth.
Explores the technological advances that took place during the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries and discusses how they impacted life on Earth.
