Human beings have always tried to find ways to make life easier. In ancient times, all but a privileged few could count on slow, hard, physical labor to account for the bulk of their waking hours. Yet one of the gifts of the human race is the ability to innovate, to envision and then create the technology that allows work to be done easier, faster, more thoroughly, and more consistently. Through the centuries, engineers — our technological innovators — have not only striven to perfect older technologies but also established new technologies built upon their experience and the growing power of science. This continually increasing technological sophistication has led from the simple wheel, designed to make transportation of goods and people easier, all the way to space travel — with a multitude of intervening steps. In Masterworks of Technology, E. E. Lewis deftly traces these steps along the path to our modern technological sophistication.

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