Ideas that changed the world : [incredible inventions and the stories behind them]

9780756670771
9780756665319

256 pages : illustrations (some color), color map ; 29 cm

Includes index

Lightbulb
Antibiotics
Penicillin
Vaccination
Microscope
X-ray
DNA
Watson and Crick
Radioactivity
Tin can
Portland cement
Hoover Dam
Pet bottles
Stainless steel
Telegraph
Who invented the telephone?
World Wide Web
Laser
LCD
Nylon
Wallace Carothers
Dynamite
Engine
Elevators
Elisha Otis
Refrigerator
WInd turbine
Electric motor
The father of electricity
Spinning jenny
Robots
Robots in our world
Pendulum clock
The master of time
Crane
Printing press
Flushing toilet
Television
From script to screen
Solar cell
Clean energy
Battery
Microprocessor
From valves to microprocessors
Apple computer
Wozniak and jobs
Microwave
The first microwave
Digital camera
Glasses
Radio
Marconi
Money
Credit card
Cash register
James Ritty
Bar code
Stapler
Stamp
Post-its
Velcro
Zipper
Cell phone
Going mobile
Wheel
Ford model T
Ford's model factory
Sailing ship
Submarine
Jet plane
Helicopter
Steam Locomotive
Full steam ahead
Bicycle
Cat's eye
Percy Shaw
Electric car
Metro
London underground
Saturn V
Hubble
Hubble in action
Compass
Mars rovers
GPS
Cassini
Spacesuit
Space helmet
Submersible
Scuba
Jacques Cousteau
Fiber-optic endoscope
MRI
Ballpoint pen
Umbrella
LEGO brick
Play well
Walkman
Skateboard
Newspaper
Jeans
Levi Strauss
Kinetoscope
What is 3-D?
Video games
Sunglasses
Electric guitar
Sports shoes
Soccer

2010282281

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DK Publishing, Inc
Ferris, Julie