inventions

Their Uncle Dan is still missing and Carter and Isabelle are starting to worry, especially after they receive a threatening call from the computer hacker--and he challenges them to match wits with him in Treasure Island.

"A ten-year-old orphan discovers a box that can make the things he imagines become real and must keep the contraption from getting into the wrong hands with the help of a professor, his granddaughter, and a well-versed finger monkey"--Provided by publisher.

Highlights inventions and inventors throughout history and discusses why people invent and the steps in the inventive process.

Text and photographs explore the history of the telegraph.

Two-year-old Adam Szalinski is accidently zapped by his dad's enlarging beam, with gigantic results.

Follows a young Rube Goldberg from morning until night as he uses one complicated invention after another to "simplify" his life.

Presents an alphabetically-arranged introduction to every day inventions from T to Z, who invented them, and how they work including the tea bag, telephone, umbrella, yo-yo, and zipper.

Presents an alphabetically-arranged introduction to every day inventions from M to P, who invented them, and how they work including margarine, microphone, nylon, paper, and plastic.

Presents an alphabetically-arranged introduction to every day inventions from G to L, who invented them, and how they work including the hearing aid, instant coffee, light bulb, and lipstick.