Technology in World History
Edited by W. Bernard Carlson
Q. Why did the Aborigines invent the boomerang?
A. So they wouldn’t have to chase after their “hunting stick” when they went hunting.
Why were there no wheeled vehicles in America before Columbus?
Why did Africans domesticate cattle and donkeys, but not zebras?
Bernie Carlson discusses "Technology in World History."
The kiwi fruit and globalization.
The paradox of the pyramids
Why Chinese coins have square holes
Technology and world history