books.google.com - "IT'S CHOCKABLOCK WITH CURIOUS LORE....[James and Thorpe] have amassed scores of persuasive testimonials of primeval ingenuity."--The Boston GlobeWe in the twentieth century tend to assume that our era has a monopoly on the inventions of clever machines, labor-saving devices, feats of engineering, and...http://books.google.com/books/about/Ancient_Inventions.html?id=VmJLd3sSYecC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareAncient Inventions