Scientific American inventions and discoveries : all the milestones in ingenuity--from the discovery of fire to the invention of the microwave oven / Rodney Carlisle.
The Ancient World through Classical Antiquity, 8000 B.C. to A.D. 330 -- The Middle Ages through 1599 -- The Age of Scientific Revolution, 1600 to 1790 -- The Industrial Revolution, 1791 to 1890 -- The Electrical Age, 1891 to 1934 -- The Atomic and Electronic Age, 1935 into the 21st Century.