inventions

Profiles forty-five historic and prehistoric inventions, explaining how they work and describing their origins and impact. Includes such developments as the hand ax, the axle, writing, money, the clock, anesthesia, and the nuclear reactor.

Profiles a selection of one hundred inventors of significant influence and accomplishment.

Discusses various inventions and innovations that have proven to be useful or crucial to development in modern times, covering areas such as communication; transportation; power and energy; building construction and civil engineering; medicine; military technology; observation and measurement; and agriculture and industry.

Discusses American inventors and their accomplishments throughout history, which includes Cromwell Dixon and his bicycle-powered airship, African-American inventor John Dove's concepts that lead to the compact disc, and others; and features photographs, newspaper clippings, and illustrations.

The Brain, who considers himself the world's greatest detective, enlists reluctant helper Sheldon McGlone to investigate recent strange events. The answers involve surfing rivals, a weird homeroom teacher, a toothpaste company, and a severed human leg.

Profiles the top one hundred inventions of all time, rated in order of their impact on the development of civilization.

Relates the histories of over 120 inventions that have become staples of modern life, including the electric iron, sliced bread, the wine box, submarines, typewriters, jet skis, the disposable syringe, and bar codes, each with photographs, facts, and anecdotes.

Presents over three hundred illustrated diagrams and photographs to describe the basic principles of some of the more sophisticated technologies such as power stations and plasma televisions, home computers and fiber optic cables, and health and medical equipment.

Explains what lasers are and how they are used in communications, medicine, industry, and warfare, as well as possible future uses.

Describes the significant events of science from 4,000,000 B.C. to the present and how science, cultural, social, and political events have affected each other.