Forgotten

<p>What if humanity's most important invention wasn't the steam engine or the printing press but a machine that you've never heard of built by a man that history forgot?</p><p></p><p>Eight billion people owe their lives to a man you've never heard of. In <em>Forgotten</em> Jaime Dávila uncovers the astonishing true story of Cornelis Corneliszoon a 16th-century Dutch tinkerer whose simple invention - the wind-powered sawmill - unleashed a chain reaction that built the modern world. Faster ships. Global trade. Stock markets. The Industrial Revolution. None of this would have happened without this single millwright's practical innovation.</p><p></p><p>A rigorous revelatory and unflinchingly subversive challenge to our understanding of how the modern world was built and a long-overdue correction of an historical injustice.</p>