inventions

When the men in black arrive to take five brilliant young inventors to an isolated schoolhouse in Dayton, Ohio, they discover they all know the same poem and have all been working on the same invention.

This book traces the history of African American inventors, from the 1600s when most African Americans were viewed as property to the nineteenth century when African Americans overcame prejudice to the twenty-first century which has progressed to the point where only "inventors" exist.

Presents twenty-one primary and secondary documents on significant events in world history between 1880 and 1900, including the partitioning of Africa at the 1885 Berlin conference, the birth of Adolf Hitler, and the discovery of x-rays, and includes a chronology and further reading list.

The histories of twenty-one everyday items, such as disposable razors, Vaseline, intercoms, Muzak and threaded screws, are presented in this story of inventors.

Life is delicious in the town of Chewandswallow where it rains soup and juice, snows mashed potatoes, and blows storms of hamburgers--until the weather takes a turn for the worse.

A manual, designed to inspire inventive thinking, with descriptions of a variety of inventions and information on patenting, marketing, and selling one's inventions.

Cornelius Murphy, a pig inventor, makes a unique housekeeping machine for his wife's birthday, but the entire family is shocked when they discover what the machine actually does.

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

A chronicle of achievements that changed the world.