Carlisle, Rodney P. <br/><br/>
Scientific American inventions and discoveries :  all the milestones in ingenuity--from the discovery of fire to the invention of the microwave oven / 
Rodney Carlisle 
 - Hoboken, N.J. :  John Wiley & Sons,  2004 
 - ix, 502 p. :  ill. ;  25 cm. 
<br/><br/> Includes index 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0471244104 (acid-free paper)  RM127.16 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Inventions--History--Encyclopedias<br/>Inventions--United States--Encyclopedias<br/>Technology--History--Encyclopedias<br/>Technological innovations--Encyclopedias