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    <title>The greatest inventions of the past 2000 years</title>
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    <namePart>Brockman, John</namePart>
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    <publisher>Weidenfeld &amp; Nicolson</publisher>
    <dateIssued>2000</dateIssued>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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    <extent>192 pages.; 22 cm.</extent>
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  <abstract>John Brockman challenged the array of scientists that he hosts on his website by asking: "What is the most important invention of the past two thousand years?". This book provides a showcase for more than a hundred of their responses, which are as varied as the participants themselves.</abstract>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">edited by John Brockman. </note>
  <subject>
    <topic>Technology</topic>
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  <subject>
    <topic>Inventions --</topic>
    <topic>History</topic>
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  <classification authority="lcc">T 15 .G74 2000</classification>
  <identifier type="isbn">0297645757</identifier>
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