inventions

Describes the history of inventions in over forty alphabetized categories from adhesive tapes to washing machines and dryers, covering how they were created, how they work, and how they have evolved since their inception.

Illustrated text and photographs describe the development of communication including the Pony Express, telegraph, and the various styles of telephones since its invention in the 1870s.

Describes life before the car, how the automobile was invented, and how it has evolved over the course of a century.

An exploration of eleven historic places in the United States associated with science and invention, providing general information about each site, and discussing who lived there, how the place related to that person's life and work, and what it is like to visit there today.

Profiles one hundred inventions in chronological order, from roads and the screw to the World Wide Web and cloning, describing how each was invented, what people did before its advent, and what has happened since, and provides further reading lists.

Describes the history and process of invention and lists national middle school and high school level invention contests and entrance rules, regional inventors' clubs, and ideas for projects.

Provides an overview of some of the best inventions in the areas of health, productivity, communication, and transportation.

Explores some of engineering's greatest feats and failures such as the Great Wall of China and the Titanic.

Sent to live with her chef father and his wife in Oregon after having stayed with her inventor uncle and scientist mother in Cincinnati, ten-year-old misfit Megan is lonely until she starts working with some computer-savvy mice to try to save Mouse Nation--and the planet.