With his usual compelling and humorous style, James May charts a path through the period of extraordinary change and bewildering new technologies that was the 20th century. Flight, space travel, TV, mechanised war, medicine, video games, electronic music, skyscrapers, electronic espionage and much more. Packed with surprising statistics and intriguing facts, this is the ideal book for anyone who wants to know how stuff works and why some stuff didn't make it. |