Product Description
From our mobile phones to our laptops, we take for granted that technology is powerful, versatile and reliable. 'From the abacus to the iPhone' explores how we managed to reach the modern information age, charting the history of computing through the 50 breakthroughs that laid the foundations of today's digital world. The story it tells starts back in 150BC, and continues – via the electric telegraph and the mighty Colossus computer - right through to the 21st century's very latest gadgets.
