Grand Transitions: How the Modern World Was Made
after millennia of dependence on just three basic sources of energy—combustion of fuels (biomass or fossil), animate metabolism (human and animal muscles), and conversion of indirect solar flows (water and wind)—everything changed in the course of a single decade.
Vaclav Smil • Creating the Twentieth Century: Technical Innovations of 1867-1914 and Their Lasting Impact (Technical Revolutions and Their Lasting Impact)
five successive energy “revolutions” divide up the history of life on Earth thus far. These epochs are labeled as geochemical energy, sunlight, oxygen, flesh, and fire.
Caleb Scharf • The Ascent of Information: Books, Bits, Genes, Machines, and Life's Unending Algorithm
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Tom Standage • A Brief History of Motion: From the Wheel, to the Car, to What Comes Next
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Tom Standage • A Brief History of Motion: From the Wheel, to the Car, to What Comes Next
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