Seven Elements That Have Changed the World (56 page)

Thunder Horse
platform,
7-9

ThyssenKrupp,
6

tin,
108

Titan computer,
178

titanium

compared with steel,
155-6

contemporary uses,
154-6

cutlery,
160
,
244

discovery of,
149

extraction process,
155
,
243

price,
155

reactivity and impurities,
151-2
,
241-3

strength-to-weight ratio,
153
,
241

titanium dioxide,
xiii
,
149
,
153
,
156-60

Titanium Metals Corporation,
151

Titian,
29

TNK,
54

Tocqueville, Alexis,
36

Tohoku earthquake,
138
,
141

Tokyo
139-40
,
239

Tokyo Electric Power Company,
141

Toledo, Francisco de,
106

Tortelier, Paul,
18

touch screens,
192-3
,
253

town gas,
37
,
69
,
219

trade, east/west,
96

Trafalgar, Battle of,
7

Trans-Alaska Pipeline,
33
,
57

transistors,
160
,
162
,
178-83
,
191
,
200
,
250-1

Treaty of Frankfurt,
5

Treaty of Rome,
212

Três Barras,
101-2

Trinidad and Tobago,
43
,
65-7
,
72
,
225-6

Trinity bomb test site,
131

Truman, Harry S.,
237

Tunisia,
187

Tutankhamun,
94
,
231

Tuthill, William Burnett,
18

Twitter,
187

Ukraine,
140
,
240

Ulm,
173

United States of America

and arms race,
138
,
146-7

and climate change,
76
,
78-9
,
81
,
199

Gini coefficient,
215

and gold standard,
99-101

Universe

and Big Bang,
ix

Copernican model,
171

Upcott, Sir Frederick,
25

uranium

chain reactions,
129-30

discovery of,
149

and discovery of radiation,
127

enriched,
129-33
,
137
,
238

and nuclear fission,
128-9
,
135

processing costs,
143

US Holocaust Memorial Museum,
126

US Steel,
15
,
22

USS
Cumberland
,
1

USS
Merrimack
,
1

USS
Monitor
,
1-3
,
174

vacuum tubes,
167
,
179
,
182
,
249-50

Venezuela,
45
,
47
,
55
,
59-62
,
64
,
66

Venice,
29-32
,
108
,
117
,
170

coinage,
96-7
,
99
,
102

Council of Ten,
165-6

Feast of the Ascension,
163
,
165

Festa del Redentore,
29-31

glass industry,
161-6

Rialto bridge,
188-9

St Mark’s Square,
91
,
96

Zecca,
97

Vermeer, Johannes,
169

Versailles, Hall of Mirrors,
165-6

Victoria, Queen,
167

Vietnam War,
xiii
,
101
,
116-18
,
152

viscosity,
244

Vogel, Hermann Wilhelm,
159

Warren, Sir David,
141

Washington, DC,
1
,
126

water, bottled,
48-9

Watt, James,
12

Wedgwood, Josiah,
112

Wedgwood, Thomas,
112-14

Wen Jiabao,
40
,
70
,
220

Westminster Abbey,
117

Wimbledon,
156

wind power,
80

window tax,
166

wood, structure of,
217

Wordsworth, William,
243

World Trade Center,
22-3

World Wide Web,
185

Wright brothers,
12

wrought iron,
10

Xenophon,
111

x-ray crystallography,
x
,
210

Xue,
87

Yamani, Sheikh,
48

Yamashina, Tomomi,
237

Yemen,
187

Yergin, Daniel,
73

Yom Kippur War,
56-7
,
152-3

Yuzaki, Governor Hidehiko,
143
,
148
,
199

Zagros Mountains,
43

Zeche Zollverein mine,
212-13

Zhou Shengxian,
39

Zimbabwe,
225

zinc, viii,
155
,
173

Zurich,
121

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