Inventors and Their Bright Ideas
Contributors: Clive Goddard (Illustrator)
Series: Dead Famous
Publisher: Scholastic Hippo
Published: October 18, 2002
Language: eng
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780439981095
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Ancient Archimedes and his menacing machinery; title: Leonardo da Vinci and his secret submarine; title: Inventors wanted; title: James Watt and his hot-and-cold machine; title: George Stephenson and his risky railways; title: Thomas Edison and his innumerable inventions; title: Alexander Graham Bell and his very irritating phone; title: The Wright brothers and their unflappable flying machines; title: Guglielmo Marconi and his endless esses; title: John Logie Baird and his spinning telly; title: Inventors 'R' us; title: Dead Famous Inventions : wheels to starships in easy-to-swallow chunks