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Contents

DK London
Senior Editor Carron Brown Senior Art Editor Rachael Grady
US Editor Megan Douglass US Executive Editor Lori Cates Hand
Editorial team Ann Baggaley, Ashwin Khurana, Camilla Hallinan, EARLY BREAKTHROUGHS 6
Jessica Cawthra, Sarah Edwards
Art Editors Chrissy Barnard, Louise Dick
Jacket Designer Surabhi Wadhwa-Gandhi Jacket Editor Claire Gell
Jacket Design Development Manager Sophia MTT Early tools 8
Producer, Pre-production Gillian Reid Senior Producer Angela Graef Farming 10
Managing Editor Francesca Baines Managing Art Editor Philip Letsu
Publisher Andrew Macintyre Inventing the wheel 12
Associate Publishing Director Liz Wheeler Traveling by road 14
Art Director Karen Self Design Director Phil Ormerod
Publishing Director Jonathan Metcalf Sailing the seas 16
Sailing ships 18
DK Delhi
Senior Editor Sreshtha Bhattacharya Senior Art Editor Ira Sharma Archimedes 20
Project Editor Priyanka Kharbanda The beginnings of industry 22
Editorial team Ankona Das, Neha Ruth Samuel, Rupa Rao, Vatsal Verma
Art Editors Heena Sharma, Mansi Agrawal, Sachin Singh, Shailee Khurana Early mechanical devices 24
Jacket Designer Juhi Sheth Jackets Editorial Coordinator Priyanka Sharma Designing the future 26
Senior DTP Designer Harish Aggarwal
DTP Designers Sachin Gupta, Mohd Rizwan, Vikram Singh, Bimlesh Tiwary The power of gunpowder 28
Picture Researchers Nishwan Rasool, Deepak Negi Gunpowder weapons 30
Managing Jackets Editor Saloni Singh
Picture Research Manager Taiyaba Khatoon The printing revolution 32
Pre-production Manager Balwant Singh Writing and printing 34
Production Manager Pankaj Sharma
Managing Editor Kingshuk Ghoshal Managing Art Editor Govind Mittal Zhang Heng 36

Written by John Farndon, Jacob Field, Joe Fullman,
Andrew Humphreys, and Giles Sparrow MAKING THE MODERN WORLD 38
Consultant: Roger Bridgman
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Bicycle 84
Two wheels 86
Skating on air 88
Established in 1846, the Smithsonian—the world’s largest museum, education and
research complex—includes 19 museums and galleries and the National Zoological Park. Motorcycles 90
The total number of artifacts, works of art, and specimens in the Smithsonian’s collection Cars for the masses 92
is estimated at 154 million. The Smithsonian is a renowned research center, dedicated
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