LibGuides: Technology: Then and Now: Home

Books in our Library on Changing Technologies

Great Inventions (series)
Call Number: 608
set of 8: The Automobile; The Telephone; The Bicycle; The Computer; The Light Bulb; The Radio; The Sewing Machine; The Television
Transport Then and Now by Charles Hope
Call Number: 388.09 HOP
History from Photographs (series) by Kath Cox and Pat Hughes
six book set:
Houses and Homes
In the Home
In the Street
Journeys
People who Help Us
School
Australia: Then and Now (series) by Jane Pearson
set of four books:
Australians at Home
Australians at Play
Australians at School
Australians at Work
Australia Past and Present (series) by Johanna Rohan
set of four books:
Home
Work
Play
School
Children in Australian History (series) by Melanie Guile
set of four books:
Little Felons
Another Mouth to Feed
Bush Boys and Girls
Baby Boomers
Decades of Change by Itiel Bereson
set of 10 books from Australia in the 1900s to Australia in the 1990s
Inventions in ... (series) by Ian Graham
4 books: Communication; the Home; Transport; Science and Technology
Now and Then (series) by Monica Hughes
set of four books: Clothes, Toys, Journeys, My History
How Things have Changed (series) by Jon Richards
ISBN: 1844581136
2 books: Clothes and In the Home
Living Long Ago (series) by F. Brooks
ISBN: 0746004486
set of four books:
Clothes and Fashion
Food and Eating
Homes and Houses
Travel and Transport
When I Was Young (series) by Kimberley Webber
set of six books:
Washing
Cooking and Eating
Shopping
Playing
Getting Around
Going to School
Timelines (series)
Set of three books:
Food
Entertainment
Houses
Great Aussie Inventions by Amy Hunter
Call Number: 600 HUN
Communications in Australia (series) by Nicholas Brasch
4 books: Radio, Television, Print Media, The Internet

How Times Change

from Education Services Australia

Useful Web Sites

How Toys Have Changed

"The aim of this resource pack is to introduce the pupils to toys from the past. Pupils look at when teddy bears, dolls and cars were made and what they were made of."

All-TIME 100 Greatest Toys

TIME reporter Allie Townsend picks the 100 most influential toys from 1923 to the present.

Australian Toys

From Museum Victoria.

Toy Timeline

travel through the timeline below to learn about some of the many toys that have been entertaining youngsters over the past 6,000 years. From Toyinfo.org