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Genre/Form: | Juvenile works Juvenile literature Ouvrages pour la jeunesse |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Becker, Helaine, 1961- What's the big idea?. Toronto : Maple Tree Press, ©2009 (DLC) 2009923330 (OCoLC)312882956 |
Material Type: | Biography, Document, Juvenile audience, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Helaine Becker; Steve Attoe |
OCLC Number: | 763033844 |
Notes: | Includes index. |
Description: | 1 online resource (96 pages) : color illustrations |
Contents: | Needle -- Wheel -- Plow -- Water pump -- Big thinkers: Archimedes -- Alphabet -- Close-up: At school -- Spinning wheel -- Compass -- Paper -- Close-up: In the bathroom -- Printing press -- Big Thinkers: Leonardo da Vinci -- Lenses -- Accurate clock -- Steam engine -- Steel -- Electric battery -- Food canning -- Close-up: At war -- Photograph -- Electric motor -- Big Thinkers: Michael Faraday -- Telegraph -- Fertilizer -- Light bulb -- Close up: In the doctor's office -- Engine -- Car -- Telephone -- Big Thinkers: Alexander Graham Bell -- Radio -- Television -- Airplane -- Plastic -- Close-up: In the kitchen -- Computer -- Personal computer -- Big thinkers: Steve Jobs & Bill Gates -- Internet --MP3. |
Other Titles: | Inventions that changed life on earth forever |
Responsibility: | Helaine Becker ; illustrated by Steve Attoe. |
Abstract:
This book shares the big ideas behind more than thirty of the world's greatest innovations.
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