inventions

Mr. Pulga, a reknowned innovator in the automobile industry, is inspired by a very bad day to invent a vehicle that literally soars over traffic.

Discusses how ideas can lead to inventions including the cases of roller skates, motion pictures, windshield wipers, lightbulb filaments, and toll house cookies.

Photographs, illustrations, and text explain the workings of things a child uses everyday--from the kitchen sink to money--how they are made, built, and used.

Photographs and text explore such inventions as the wheel, gears, levers, clocks, telephones, and rocket engines.

Follows developments in the process of invention throughout history, and features interviews with modern-day inventors, including computer entrepreneur Steve Wozniak.

Describes numerous inventions by Canadian inventors that are widely used in the world today, such as sunglasses, kerosene, and basketball.

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

"Charlie has lots of ideas. Need something to go sky high? Ah-ha! The zinger-winger! Need to launch a cheese popper into soup? The amazing popper-upper! But the zinger-winger zings more than wings, and the popper-upper plops. Charlie isn't allowed to invent for a week. Meanwhile, the afterschool invention fair is coming up. He needs time to make something special. Good thing he has his friends and Mr. Redfern, another inventor, to help him out"--.

Introduces innovations in art from cave paintings to graffiti art, including technical developments, new techniques, and new ideas about what art should be, and includes a timeline of important events taking place during each period.