You've probably heard of a few inventors and their bright ideas..*Alexander Graham Bell and his telephone *George Stevenson and his Rocket (which was really a train) *John Logie Baird and his television. But have you heard that... *Bell didn't invent the phone, but he did make a weird machine out of hay and a human ear *Stevenson didn't invent the train, but he did spend a lot of time collecting gas in bladders *Baird's telly was useless, and so were his thermostatic socks? Yes, even though they're dead, inventors are still full of surprises-and the ten in this book are more surprising than most. Now you can get the inside story from their long lost notebooks, read the ground-breaking news stories as their inventions hit the headlines, and find out all about the bright ideas that changed the world.
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16 of 17 people found the following review helpful
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Format:Paperback
This book was quite interesting, giving a detailed description of several famous and not so famous inventors of many devices we use today. It had both facts and fun, but somewhat lacked the upbeat quality of other Dead Famous books. However, this is a good read for you and educational for your child. Definitely worth the money!
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'If it wasn't for whoever it was who invented reading and whoever else invented introductions, you wouldn't be reading this introduction now. It's a stunning thought, isn't it? Good old inventors - you can probably think of loads of them and the great things they invented.....The thing is, dead famous inventors have got a bit of a tendency not to have done what they're famous for. This book is just full of surprises like that (not to mention a talking dog)......there's more to being an inventor than being first to think something up.......'
207 pages, split into chapters:-
Introduction
Ancient Archimedes and his menacing machinery
Leonardo da Vinci and his secret submarine
Inventors wanted
James Watt and his hot-and-cold machine
George Stephenson and his risky railways
Thomas Edison and his innumerable inventions
Alexander Graham Bell and his very irritating phone
The Wright brothers and their unflappable flying machines
Guglielmo Marconi and his endless esses
John Logie Baird and his spinning telly
Inventors 'R' us
Dead Famous Inventions : wheels to starships in easy-to-swallow chunks
Written in a variety of fonts with humorous black and white cartoon illustrations throughout.
207 pages, split into chapters:-
Introduction
Ancient Archimedes and his menacing machinery
Leonardo da Vinci and his secret submarine
Inventors wanted
James Watt and his hot-and-cold machine
George Stephenson and his risky railways
Thomas Edison and his innumerable inventions
Alexander Graham Bell and his very irritating phone
The Wright brothers and their unflappable flying machines
Guglielmo Marconi and his endless esses
John Logie Baird and his spinning telly
Inventors 'R' us
Dead Famous Inventions : wheels to starships in easy-to-swallow chunks
Written in a variety of fonts with humorous black and white cartoon illustrations throughout.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
By Vaishali
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
Having seen this book at the London Science Museum, I decided to purchase it from Amazon for my 10 year old boy. He is keen on how electrical appliances and gadgets work.
He was very mused with the details in this book. It was an entertaining read for him, to know how the great inventors came about with their inventions and what they invented prior to their inventions. It talks about their disastrous experiments as well.
He throughly loved it!
He was very mused with the details in this book. It was an entertaining read for him, to know how the great inventors came about with their inventions and what they invented prior to their inventions. It talks about their disastrous experiments as well.
He throughly loved it!
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