This book is part of a book series called Kingfisher Knowledge .
There are 64 pages in this book. This book was published 2006 by Pan Macmillan .
James Robinson was born in England but has lived in America for over twenty years as a writer of screenplays and comics. Among the latter, most noteworthy are THE GOLDEN AGE, STARMAN and Leave It To Chance. Currently James has just completed the critically acclaimed series THE SHADE for DC, while continuing to write EARTH 2. He resides with his wife in San Francisco.
This book has the following chapters: 01 HALF TITLE; 02-03 TITLE; 04-05 IMPRINT & CONTENTS; 06 FOREWORD; 07 CHAPTER ONE: Communications; 08-09 The telephone; 10-11 Fibre optics; 12-13 Communications satellite; 14-15 Computers; 16-17 The Internet; 18-19 Radio; 20-21 Television; 22-23 Film and cinema; 24 Summary and information panel; 25 CHAPTER TWO: Technology in the home; 26-27 Electricity and light; 28-29 Photography; 30-31 Camcorders; 32-33 Games and toys (including video games); 34-35 Digital music; 36 Summary and information panel; 37 CHAPTER THREE: Transportation; 38-39 Cars; 40-41 Sea vehicles; 42-43 Trains; 44-45 Aviation; 46-47 Space travel; 48 Summary and information panel; 49 CHAPTER FOUR: Industry and medicine; 50-51 Robotics; 52-53 Nanotechnology; 54-55 Genetic engineering; 56-58 Medical technology (3 pages); 59 Summary and information panel; 60-61 Glossary; 62-63 Index; 64 Acknowledgements.
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