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Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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"Inspiring and empowering, this journey behind the scenes of humanity's greatest creations reveals the surprising way we make something new. What do Thomas Jefferson's ice cream recipe, Coca Cola, and Chanel No. 5 have in common? They all depended on a nineteenth-century African boy who, with a single pinch, solved one of nature's great riddles and gave birth to the multimillion-dollar vanilla industry. Kevin Ashton opens his book with the fascinating...
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"A structural engineer examines the seven most basic building blocks of engineering that have shaped the modern world. Some of humanity’s mightiest engineering achievements are small in scale―and, without them, the complex machinery on which our modern world runs would not exist. In Nuts and Bolts, structural engineer Roma Agrawal examines seven of these extraordinary elements: the nail, the wheel, the spring, the magnet, the lens, the string,...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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A history of the key technologies that made each stage of human civilization possible details the science, engineering, mathematics, art, music, philosophy, facts and figures required for even the most clueless time traveler to build a civilization.
7) Inventing the 20th century: 100 inventions that shaped the world : from the airplane to the zipper
Author
Publisher
New York University Press
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
The writer of the New York Times Magazine' s popular "Who Made That?" column explains how better ideas enter the world, revealing the fabled "ah-a" moment to be the result of a series of steps anyone can apply to solve the problems we encounter in everyday life.
Author
Publisher
DK Publishing, Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Summarizes one thousand notable inventions and discoveries of ancient and modern times, from 3,000,000 B.C. to the beginning of the twenty-first century A.D.
Revised and updated edition of a comprehensive review of humanity's greatest ideas up to date. Innovations in science, space, technology, transportation, medicine, mathematics, and language are covered, along with a timeline of history highlighting all inventions and discoveries from the airbag...
Author
Publisher
Imagine Publishing
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Outlines the process of making and patenting inventions and presents innovations in such fields as transportation, appliances, child and pet care, and amusement that did not work, were too early or too late, or failed for other reasons.
Series
Publisher
Ambrose Video
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Tracking through 12,000 years of history in the Middle East, Europe, and the United States, James Burke shows how past events and technologies led to modern inventions, such as the atomic bomb, engines, electric lamps, telecommunications, the computer, refrigeration, the production line, jets, plastics, rocketry, and movies.
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Series
Publisher
DK
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Discover the inventions that changed our world! Make reading your superpower with DK’s beautiful, leveled nonfiction. Use your reading superpowers to learn all about inventions that change how we live - a high-quality, fun, nonfiction reader - carefully leveled to help children progress. Which Inventions Changed the World? is a beautifully designed reader all about inventions that changed people’s lives - from helping us to navigate or communicate...
19) Connections 3
Publisher
Ambrose Video
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Explores the origins and effects of those inventions that shape our modern world.
"This humorous and upbeat science series show that history is filled with seemingly unrelated discoveries that are actually connected in the most surprising ways. Host James Burke continues to delight viewers as he explores the effects and origins of inventions and events that shape the modern world"--Container cover insert.
Author
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
From Buddha and Muhammad to King and Mandela, from the discovery of fire to the invention of the World Wide Web, and from Romeo and Juliet to Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, this is a thorough and thoroughly entertaining compendium of important people and events.
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