inventions

Details, in graphic form, significant inventions from throughout history and provides information on inventors, such as Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Edison, and Henry Ford.

Describes more than seventy inventions and innovations from Native Americans, and includes information on totem poles, fishing nets, birch-bark megaphones, syringes, lacrosse, and more.

Answers a wide variety of questions about the invention of common household items.

Explores how inventions such as the lightbulb affect the way people live now and in the past.

"Learn about these amazing inventors of the 20th century: William Lear, Philo Farnsworth, Beatrice Kenner, Gertrude Belle Elion, Gordon Gould, Charles Ginsburg, Robert Shurney, Jack Kilby, Stephanie Kwolek and Lonnie Johnson"--Provided by publisher.

Profiles over one hundred quirky inventions, such as a mobile pet water bowl, a license plate holder that converts into a help sign, a shoulder dolly, and lighted slippers.

Examines the history of electric automobiles, including how they were made obsolete by gasoline-powered vehicles, and discusses how modern electric and hybrid models work, the reasons why they have become popular again, and the future.

Presents predictions made by scientists and other experts in the pages of "Popular Mechanics" magazines published between 1903 and 1969, and provides modern perspectives on possible reasons some of the predictions were made as well as original artwork that accompanied them.

Describes the lives and achievements of eight of the most important inventors of the nineteenth century, including Edison, Fulton, Hollerith, and McCormick.