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- Overview of the entire book
- Introduction to the important people in the book
- Summary and analysis of all the chapters in the book
- Key Takeaways of the book
- A Reader's Perspective
Glass formed in the Libyan desert about twenty-six million years ago when grains of silica became superheated for some unknown reason. People began making ornaments from it about ten thousand years later. Still later, Roman artisans learned to make glass windows and drinking vessels from these early examples of glass.
In 1204, Turkish glassmakers migrated to Venice, a major trade hub. The merchants of Venice happily began trading in this new commodity, but the high heat required for glassmaking kept sparking fires in the city. In 1291, the glassmakers were relocated to the island of Murano, where their creative community has thrived due to new levels of competition and shared innovation.
Murano glassmakers developed crystal, an extremely clear glass that bends light very precisely. Monks in northern Italy used it to create the first eyeglasses. Other than monks, most people did not read, so there was little demand for glasses until Johannes Gutenberg's printing press made books accessible in the 1440s. Other innovators began studying the properties of convex pieces of glass. In 1590, a father and son in the Netherlands invented the microscope, which British scientist, Robert Hooke, used in the next century to discover the cell, the building block for life.
In 1608, Hans Lippershey patented a lens that magnified what a person was viewing through it. Galileo improved on the Lippershey's design and, two years later, was using a telescope to challenge the assumption that all heavenly bodies revolved around the Earth. The printed word spread his ideas and helped pave the way for the Renaissance.
One hummingbird effect of glass came from a quest to measure things. In 1887, British physicist, Charles Vernon Boys, created a thin fiber of glass to use as a balance arm. The new type of glass, which would come to be called fiberglass, was very strong. Within a hundred years, fiberglass was widely used in insulation, airplanes and computer circuits.
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This was an insightful summary about six key innovations in history and how they led to and shaped modern society. It also includes important, key people with some interesting information. I especially liked that each chapter ended with "Key Takeaways" that summarized what was learned.
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A wonderful and exciting book. Truly a marvel to read what we take for granted. Every school should make this book required reading. And then have the children discuss a topic or the whole book. Ask kids to wonder if they could do without any of the topics. Challenge kids now on our world now!
This book is a summary of the book How We Got to Now by Steven Johnson. This summary gives the basic points of the chapters in Johnson's book, which details history from the point of view from intelligent machines perspective. These machines are believed to look at innovations in technology made by man rather than wars and empires as a human would perceive history. The book goes through the six areas of innovations made by man in Johnson's opinion.
This summary gives you the basic details of each chapter and an overall guide to Johnson's book itself. This guide would be a great accompaniment to the original book to study from or for those short on time as a learning tool that they can use to quickly get the information that they need.
Really insightful and well written
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