Washoe County Library System

Photographs and text explore such inventions as the wheel, gears, levers, clocks, telephones, and rocket engines.

Learn about inventors and their amazing inventions.

Presents the stories behind forty things that were invented or named by accident, including aspirin, X-rays, frisbees, silly putty, and velcro.

Describes a variety of both silly and useful inventions and their inventors.

Uses cartoon-style characters to introduce the revolutionary concepts behind everyday technology, profiling a range of life-changing inventions, including concrete, light bulbs, DVDs and microchips.

Provides instructions for making seventy-five contraptions that demonstrate friction, gravity, energy, motion, and other principles of physics and explains how to think like an inventor.

A funky and fascinating collection of ideas, patents, and plans. Some are revolutionary, others comical, others simply impossible. But each testifies to the extraordinary imaginations of their inventors.