The World of Technology in 100 Objects

From a sixteenth-century Venetian cembalo to Benz Patent-Motorwagen no. 1, from the first photo Röntgen took of his wife's hand to a recycling bag and BionTech's mRna Covid-19 vaccine – this book embarks upon a journey into the past and, ultimately, back into the future to tell the story of how humans in the last five hundred years have utilized technology to first investigate the world and then transform it. It also shows how humanity has shaped itself and society with their technological inventions. This narration uses objects from the Deutsches Museum in Munich, the world's largest science and technology museum.