How Nearly Everything was Invented by the Brainwaves

MacLeod, Jilly

Swerling, Lisa and Ralph Lazar

Notes
Find out all about the key inventions that changed the world (and led to almost everything else that’s been invented). The fold-out pages reveal the who, what, when, where, and why of each invention and explains how it transformed the way we live. A brilliant book of big ideas.
Contents
Contents : finding a better way; the lens - seeing is believing / lights, camera, action; famous inventors; the steam engine - steam machine / powering a revolution; fantastic inventions; the light bulb & generator - let there be light / power to the people; fascinating firsts - the internal combustion engine - on the road / by land, sea and air; fabulous flops; the transistor - super-duper computer / let’s all communicate; the future; gundpowder - powder power / off with a bang; timeline; glossary; index;
Additional Info
Includes fold-out pages.
Donated by Charles & Carol Shadbolt @ Junior Operetta 2007.
Location edition Bar Code due date
Non-fiction 70720
Dewey:Inventors & Inventions
ISBN:1405313293
pub:2006