From Hand to Handle: The First Industrial Revolution

by Lawrence Barham

Mankind's utter dependency on technology extends back approximately three million years to the first stone tools, but it was only with the innovation of hafting, some 300,000 years ago, that technology took its first modern form and revolutionized our social and economic lives. The development of handles and shafts, which were added to some tools previously made of single materials and hand-held, made the tools not only more efficient but improved...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199604711
• ISBN13: 9780199604715
• Release Date: November 2013
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.5" x 8.5"