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Presents some of the characteristics of inventors by describing the inventions of people such as Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas Edison, and Eli Whitney.

Describes the creation of a variety of toys and games, from seesaws to Silly Putty and toy soldiers to Trivial Pursuit.

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.

Looks at the history of sewing and how it was transformed in the 1850s when an American inventor, Isaac Singer, not only invented a practical sewing machine, but also a way for everyone to afford one.