7 wonders
| série: | Histoire (Antiquité) |
| éditeur: | Routledge |
| auteur: | Clayton+Price |
| classement: | biblio2A |
| année: | 1988 |
| format: | broché |
| état: | TBE/N |
| valeur: | 8 € |
| critère: | ** |
| remarques: | English book the seven wonders of the Ancient world drewn up by Antipater of Sidon (200 BC): - pyramids at Giza - hanging gardens of Babylon - statue of Zeus at Olympia - temple of Artemis at Ephesus - mausoleum of Halicarnassus - colossus of Rhodes - pharos at Alexandria one could have added later on: - colosseum at Rome - catacombs at Alexandria - great wall of China - Stonehenge (?) - leaning tower at Pisa - porcelain tower at Nanking - mosque of Santa Sophia at Istanbul and the seven wonders of our modern world are: 1/ the thinker invention of the microprocessor by Hoff in 1971, following the transistor (1947) and the integrated circuit (1959); the result was the chip and the personal computer 2/ the equaliser the pill invented 1956 giving to female power the ability to defer childbirth; their origin was a Mexican yam (plant) which provided an imitation for the hormone called "progesterone" (idea of using extra progesterone to mislead the brain into holding back eggs) 3/ the messenger - the telephone invented by Graham Bell in 1876 developed into a global universal telephone network using radio waves on land and fibre-optic cable in cities 4/ the traveller the jumbo jet 747 having carried so far 1,4 bio passengers over 29 bio km = 200 times the distance earth to the sun (already beikng outdated in 2018) 5/ the colossus the off-shore oil platform Gullfaks C owned by Statoil being presently the heaviest platform in the world and the largest object even to have been moved by mankind 6/ the destroyer the hydrogen bomb = thermonuclear weapon using a fission reaction, Mike was the first fusion device, the Soviet Union produced in 1960 a 150 megatonne bomb which was 10'000 times more powerful than the bomb which destroyed Hiroshima 7/ the outpost operation on 20.7.1969 with Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landing on the moon base "tranquillity base" |
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