We are so pleased to welcome John Elledge to our store to celebrate the release of 35 Inventions that Changed Your World.

We are so pleased to welcome John Elledge to our store to celebrate the release of 35 Inventions that Changed Your World.

About the book

or over 10,000 years, we humans have been busy altering our environment and embracing 'progress', evolving seamlessly from hunter gatherers to the modern urban sophisticates we see ourselves as today.

But what are the ideas and inventions that enabled humanity to become, by the early 21st century, a majority urban species for the first time? How did the essential infrastructure of modern life - the innovations that we barely even notice, but without which our world would fall apart - actually come to be?

With his characteristic wit and boundless curiosity, Jonn Elledge invites us to join him on a fascinating and often surprising tour of the ideas and technologies that made modernity possible. From elevators to electric lighting, parks to pedestrian crossings, he guides us through the history of civilisation itself.

John will be in conversation followed by an audience Q&A and signing.

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