inventions

A collection of stories about the developments, visionaries, and excitement in the growing field of technology.

Explains the role of telecommunications in the world, showing the path of a telecommunications network, and exploring the manifestation of the phenomenon in telephones, the telegraph system, radio, television, and computer communications.

Examines the electric bulb, an invention at first ridiculed, distrusted, and feared, which ultimately led to new uses of electricity and transformed society.

Investigates the ground-breaking work of the world's great scientists and inventors, as well as the great inventions that have changed our lives.

A historical examination of inventors and inventions and their effects on the American home.

Describes the evolution of inventions which have lightened household drudgery, and includes a look at gadgets that didn't catch on and also at future possibilities.

Describes forty-five unusual, but actual, inventions, some of which worked, some of which failed, after inviting the reader to guess their purposes from pictures. Sequel to "Weird and Wacky Inventions.".

Uncle Dan is back, and with him is the beautiful Tempest St. Cloud with a promise of unlimited funding--but Carter's cousin Isabelle is suspicious, and when a demonstration excursion into Great expectations results in zombies and murderers Carter does not know what to think.

A discussion of various inventions and the ways they have benefitted people, including antibiotics, cell phones, lasers, fiber optics, computers, and gene splicing.