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Contents : On the move -- Bicycles -- Hot-air balloons -- Steam locomotives -- Internal combustion engines -- Motor cars -- Early aircraft -- Jet engines -- Submarines -- Rockets -- Satellites -- Manned spacecraft -- Around the home -- Central heating -- Flushing toilets -- Frozen food -- Microwave ovens -- Vacuum cleaners -- Ballpoint pens -- Light bulbs -- Fasteners -- Communication -- Printing press -- Braille -- Telegraph -- Radio -- Telephones -- Computers -- The Internet -- World Wide Web -- Inventions at work -- Batteries -- Dynamite -- Electromagnets -- Steam turbines -- Plastics -- Transistors -- Lasers -- Robots -- Zooming in -- Seeing inside the body -- Lifesavers -- That's entertainment -- Moving pictures -- Sound recording -- Television -- Trampolines -- Snowboards -- Video games -- Inventing the future -- Who's who? Great inventors -- Glossary -- index.