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Horrible Science is getting a make-over| Readers will discover why someone invented the bottom-stabbing bike saddle and why you would need a toilet snorkel. With a fantastic new cover look and extra horrible bits at the back of the book, this best-selling title is sure to be a huge hit with a new generation of Horrible Science readers.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
'Evil Inventions is buzzing with brilliant brainwaves.............in this book we'll be exploring the weird, wacky world of inventions - including the incredibly exciting and incredibly idiotic thingies that people dream up.
And since this book is called `Evil Inventions', we won't be scared to look at the nasty side of inventing - the cruel contraptions and murderous machines.
In fact you might end up wondering if some inventions should ever have been invented. Or then again, you might find evil inventions horribly fascinating.....'
A colourful, humorous cover opens to 127 pages, split over chapters:-
Introduction
1. How to be an incredible inventor
2. Awful advertisements 1
3. A terrifying time tour
4. Barmy bikes and cruel contraptions
5. Staggering steam trains
6. Awful advertisements 2
7. Sinking subs (and other sea and air inventions)
8. Crazy cars
9. Extreme electrical inventions
10. Awful advertisements 3
11. Rotten radio and terrible TV
12. Clever computers
13. The atom bomb
Epilogue - not so evil inventions
Written in a variety of fonts in the usual Nick Arnold entertaining style.
Black and white illustrations, from Tony de Saulles, throughout as well as fantastic fact files, quirky quizzes and crazy cartoons.
One of a series.
And since this book is called `Evil Inventions', we won't be scared to look at the nasty side of inventing - the cruel contraptions and murderous machines.
In fact you might end up wondering if some inventions should ever have been invented. Or then again, you might find evil inventions horribly fascinating.....'
A colourful, humorous cover opens to 127 pages, split over chapters:-
Introduction
1. How to be an incredible inventor
2. Awful advertisements 1
3. A terrifying time tour
4. Barmy bikes and cruel contraptions
5. Staggering steam trains
6. Awful advertisements 2
7. Sinking subs (and other sea and air inventions)
8. Crazy cars
9. Extreme electrical inventions
10. Awful advertisements 3
11. Rotten radio and terrible TV
12. Clever computers
13. The atom bomb
Epilogue - not so evil inventions
Written in a variety of fonts in the usual Nick Arnold entertaining style.
Black and white illustrations, from Tony de Saulles, throughout as well as fantastic fact files, quirky quizzes and crazy cartoons.
One of a series.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
`Have you ever dreamt up a new machine or a new way of doing something?'
17 May 2008
Format:Paperback
This book is primarily aimed at 7 to 12 year olds and, I am sure, would appeal immensely to many of them. And not just to children. There is a wonderful blend of the serendipity of scientific discovery, the shock value of some inventions, and some intriguing facts.
Consider, for example, the following narrative about the use of gears: 'What they do: Gears come in many sizes but they all pass on movement energy using their teeth. Where else found: Inventions such as car gears, clocks, corkscrews and tin openers - anywhere where a force needs to move a wheel. Oddly enough, modern tin openers weren't invented until 1920 - that's over one hundred years after tinned food. Before then people had to open tins with a hammer, and US Civil War soldiers shot them open with guns.'
Wonderful cartoon drawings illustrate, with humour, many of the points made. The drawings also convert the words into pictures for those who find it easier to visualise concepts rather than construct them from words.
My personal favourite is the giant iceberg ship of 1944. An aircraft carrier made from ice mixed with tiny pieces of wood? There is just enough information in this little book to whet the appetite. I now want to read more about both Geoffrey Pyke and Project Habakkuk!
This is a delightful book and would make a wonderful present for any budding young scientist as well as a worthwhile addition to a school library. Making science fun can sometimes be a challenge, but books such as this certainly assist.
Jennifer Cameron-Smith
Consider, for example, the following narrative about the use of gears: 'What they do: Gears come in many sizes but they all pass on movement energy using their teeth. Where else found: Inventions such as car gears, clocks, corkscrews and tin openers - anywhere where a force needs to move a wheel. Oddly enough, modern tin openers weren't invented until 1920 - that's over one hundred years after tinned food. Before then people had to open tins with a hammer, and US Civil War soldiers shot them open with guns.'
Wonderful cartoon drawings illustrate, with humour, many of the points made. The drawings also convert the words into pictures for those who find it easier to visualise concepts rather than construct them from words.
My personal favourite is the giant iceberg ship of 1944. An aircraft carrier made from ice mixed with tiny pieces of wood? There is just enough information in this little book to whet the appetite. I now want to read more about both Geoffrey Pyke and Project Habakkuk!
This is a delightful book and would make a wonderful present for any budding young scientist as well as a worthwhile addition to a school library. Making science fun can sometimes be a challenge, but books such as this certainly assist.
Jennifer Cameron-Smith
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
"Anyone can have a bright idea. Well maybe not ANYone..."
2 Mar 2009
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
The Horrible Science series was highly recommended by several friends, so I chose Evil Inventions (Horrible Science) as a birthday present for my granddaughter. What a lucky choice! There is plenty of serious science here, and all of it presented so cleverly. Much of the text is placed in boxes and illustrated with wacky cartoons, in a way that invites the reader to jump in anywhere.
Chapters cover certain types of inventions in some depth--the bicycle, radio and TV, computers--while several "Awful Advertisements" chapters present one crazy invention per panel, for a high giggle factor: the pooch port-a-potty, the giant duck costume for duck hunters, the parachute hat in case of fire in tall buildings.
EVIL INVENTIONS starts with "The Horrible Science Inventors' Training Course." Lesson 1: Have you got the urge to invent? Lesson 2: Have a bright idea! I was delighted to find that the first "bright idea" case study was the earmuff, invented in Farmington, Maine by Chester Greenwood in 1873. The hilarious excerpts from Chester's diary are fictional, but the facts of the case are sound: Farmington, the town where I work, celebrates Chester Greenwood Day every December with a parade and fair.
I think my granddaughter will enjoy the craziness in this book, while soaking up the facts. I'll be sure she reads the section on Chester Greenwood, since she'll be visiting me in Maine next December and I can take her to the Greenwood Day parade.
Linda Bulger, 2009
Chapters cover certain types of inventions in some depth--the bicycle, radio and TV, computers--while several "Awful Advertisements" chapters present one crazy invention per panel, for a high giggle factor: the pooch port-a-potty, the giant duck costume for duck hunters, the parachute hat in case of fire in tall buildings.
EVIL INVENTIONS starts with "The Horrible Science Inventors' Training Course." Lesson 1: Have you got the urge to invent? Lesson 2: Have a bright idea! I was delighted to find that the first "bright idea" case study was the earmuff, invented in Farmington, Maine by Chester Greenwood in 1873. The hilarious excerpts from Chester's diary are fictional, but the facts of the case are sound: Farmington, the town where I work, celebrates Chester Greenwood Day every December with a parade and fair.
I think my granddaughter will enjoy the craziness in this book, while soaking up the facts. I'll be sure she reads the section on Chester Greenwood, since she'll be visiting me in Maine next December and I can take her to the Greenwood Day parade.
Linda Bulger, 2009
fascinating
5 Aug 2008
Format:Paperback
Kids always seem to enjoy reading about inventions, and the Horrible cartoon-y format adds even more appeal. I found the book frustrating only a couple of times, because some of the inventors got a rather politically correct spin put on their lives instead of a more objective coverage, but the inventions sure are fun to read about!
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