Invention
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Invention
(Eyewitness guides)
Dorling Kindersley, 2003
- : pbk
Available at 3 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
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  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
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  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
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  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
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  United States of America
Note
Includes index
Published in association with the Science Museum, London
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Why was the invention of the wheel so important? Who invented the flushing toilet? This guide will get your brain buzzing with the full range of different human inventions that have helped to shape the world we live in today, from the earliest primitive tools to advanced plastic fibres.
Table of Contents
- What is an invention?
- the story of an invention
- tools
- the wheel
- metalworking
- weights and measures
- pen and ink
- lighting
- timekeeping
- harnessing power
- printing
- optical inventions
- calculating
- the steam engine
- navigation and surveying
- spinning and weaving
- batteries
- photography
- medical inventions
- the telephone
- recording
- the internal combustion engine
- cinema
- radio
- inventions in the home
- the cathode ray tube
- flight
- plastics
- the silicon chip
- did you know?
- timeline of inventions
- find out more.
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