Karfunkel Codex No. 22 Great Inventions

This issue includes:

Introduction.

• A word upfront

Food and Drink

• In the beginning was fire – Inventions in the history of food and drink from the Stone Age to today

• Cutlery

Locomotion

• Wheel and Wagon

• The horse as a booster for human development

• Shipping

• The history of flying

• From A to B – Paths, roads, bridges, tunnels

• Wheelchairs

Communication

• From beacon to telephone

Craft and Technology

• Clothes make the man – Handicrafts throughout history

• The screw

• Ceramics – How they shaped our world

• The development of lock and key

• Telescope, glasses, microscope

• Glass

• A brief history of large cranes

• Everything flows! Water pipes, canals, aqueducts

• The measurement of time •

How hot is that? Temperature measurement throughout history

• From lifesaver to hat fashion – The lightning rod

Economy and Trade

• Calculating machines – The outsourced brain

• Dear money – Coins, notes, banks, bills of exchange and credits

From everyday life

• Always sheltered – Sun and rain umbrellas

• You forgot the color film – Photography

• The invention of rubber

• From birch tar to superglue

• The small lexicon of great minds – Inventors (male and female) from antiquity to today