Professor James Wei, an engineer by trade and an accomplished academic and inventor, clearly has great respect for and appreciation of the many small (and large) leaps of human ingenuity that have taken us from being stone-axe wielding cave-dwellers to consumers of the advanced technologies of the present day. He says: 'Every citizen of the world wouLd benefit from knowing how inventions were made, how they have changed the world intentionally or unintentionally, and how to use and manage inventions wisely'. Then he sets out, in Great inventions that changed the world, to present an exceptionally well researched and almost encyclopaedic documentation of the history of human innovation.
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