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One Hundred Patents That Shaped The Modern World by David Segal is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is One Hundred Patents That Shaped The Modern World about?
Patent documents describe inventions and offer accurate information about the history of technology. This book shows how patents and the inventions they describe have shaped the modern world. Patent documents from the 19th century to the present are covered, from frozen foods and ring-pulls for soft drink cans, to Monopoly, to MRI and insulin.
Who reads One Hundred Patents That Shaped The Modern World?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- David Segal
- Publisher
- IRL Press at Oxford University Press
- Published
- 2019
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780192571144
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Engineering, History, Technology
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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