Summary
Tracey Turner, Andrea Mills, Clive Gifford: 100 Inventions That Changed the World
This wonderful book is full of incredible stories, anecdotes and interesting details about the most amazing inventions in human history. How important is the invention of the wheel, who first turned on the electric light bulb, what Leonardo's "air screw" looked like - the first prototype of a helicopter, how the most impressive inventions such as the compass, toilet bowl, steam engine, elevator, can opener, refrigerator, microscope and many others were created, you will discover in this phenomenal book. The book is divided into five chapters: On the Move, Connecting, At Your Service, Work and Play, and Medical Miracles, and each chapter brings a fun and inspiring text about inventions with lots of photos and witty illustrations. You will discover the people behind these wonderful discoveries, such as Ptolemy, Galileo Galilei, Henrik Pomorac, Nikola Tesla, Thomas Edison, Ivan Blaž Lupis, the Wright brothers and many, many other lesser-known inventors. The sections are particularly interesting: An unknown detail, How this invention changed the world, This invention opened the way for..., Did you know and How it works. It will delight you, sometimes make you laugh and certainly surprise you with a lot of extraordinary stories about the background of a discovery, about the origin of an invention or enormous effort, and sometimes also about the happy circumstances that led to the invention. In short, this is an exceptional book that will interest and inspire children.
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