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Invention / written by Lionel Bender.

By: Material type: TextSeries: DK eyewitness booksPublication details: New York : DK Pub., 2013.Edition: Rev. ed., American edDescription: 72 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781409325512
  • 1465409025
Other title:
  • Eyewitness invention
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 609 BEN 23
LOC classification:
  • T48 .B46 2013
Online resources:
Contents:
What is an invention? -- The story of an invention -- Tools -- The wheel -- Metalworking -- Weights and measures -- Pen and ink -- Lighting -- Timekeeping -- Harnessing power -- Printing -- Optical inventions -- Calculating -- The steam engine -- Navigation and surveying -- Spinning and weaving -- Batteries -- Photography -- Medical inventions -- The telephone -- Recording -- The internal combustion engine -- Movies -- Radio -- Inventions in the home -- The cathode ray tube -- Flight -- Plastics -- The silicon chip -- Did you know? -- Timeline of inventions -- Find out more.
Summary: Photographs and text explore such inventions as the wheel, gears, levers, clocks, telephones, and rocket engines.
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At head of title: Eyewitness.

Includes index.

What is an invention? -- The story of an invention -- Tools -- The wheel -- Metalworking -- Weights and measures -- Pen and ink -- Lighting -- Timekeeping -- Harnessing power -- Printing -- Optical inventions -- Calculating -- The steam engine -- Navigation and surveying -- Spinning and weaving -- Batteries -- Photography -- Medical inventions -- The telephone -- Recording -- The internal combustion engine -- Movies -- Radio -- Inventions in the home -- The cathode ray tube -- Flight -- Plastics -- The silicon chip -- Did you know? -- Timeline of inventions -- Find out more.

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

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