inventions

Discusses the development of modern computers, different ways they are used, problems they present, and future possibilities.

Uses computer-generated images to explain how many devices and processes of modern technology work, covering such inventions as HDTV, game consoles, robot cars, helicopters, space probes, oil rigs, mass dampers, biometric id's, and tsunami alert systems.

Provides step-by-step instructions for creating various projects that Leonardo da Vinci invented or envisioned in his notebooks using everyday household items.

Presents the stories behind the products, food, gadgets, and equipment used by people every day. Includes 100 entries.

Profiles eleven inventors between the ages of eight and fourteen, describes the steps involved in inventing a new product, and discusses contests, patents, lawyers, and clubs.

Covers many everyday objects and how and why they were invented.

Septimus Bean has built an amazing machine, but its use has yet to be discovered.

Tells the stories of one hundred of the most significant inventions of the nineteenth century, each with a description of how the invention and its patenting came about, information on the lives of the inventors, and original patent drawings from the collection of The British Library.