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Genre/Form: | Juvenile works Juvenile literature Ouvrages pour la jeunesse |
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Material Type: | Biography, Juvenile audience |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Helaine Becker; Steve Attoe |
ISBN: | 9781897349618 1897349610 9781897349601 1897349602 |
OCLC Number: | 964904025 |
Notes: | Includes index. |
Description: | 96 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm |
Contents: | Long, lon ago... -- Needle -- Wheel -- Plow -- Water pump -- Big thinker: Archimedes -- Alphabet -- Close-up: at school -- Spinning wheel -- Compass -- Paper -- Close-up: in the bathroom -- Long ago... -- 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 thinker: Michael Faraday -- Telegraph -- Fertilizer -- Light bulb -- Close-up: in the doctor's office -- Not so long ago... -- 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 -- What's next? |
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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