Great Inventions That Shaped the World (Illustrated Science Encyclopedia)

by Chris Oxlade (Author), PeterHarrison (Author), StephenBennington (Author)

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  Paperback
  2001

  $11.84

  Provides information on the development of various technical advances, simple machines and how they work, and the principles and techniques of photography and the computer, and suggests related activities.

• Used

  Paperback
  2003

  $3.25

  Inventions have revolutionized our everyday lives in many ways; this encyclopaedia looks at the different types of human inventions, from the earliest energy-saving devices through to the Internet and biotechnology. Find out how buildings are constructed, when the earliest computer was built and the mechanisms that make cameras work. Easy-to-do projects such as making an electric motor, constructing a waterwheel and making your very own vacuum cleaner help you to understand the principles that lie behind many inventions and demonstrate how they work.

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  Hardcover
  2003

  $4.04