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The Picture History of Great Inventors by: Gillian Clements List Price: $12.95 Childrens Bookshop Price: $10.36 You Save: $2.59 (20%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 609 EAN: 9781845074395 ISBN: 1845074394 Label: Frances Lincoln Children's Books Manufacturer: Frances Lincoln Children's Books Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 80 Publication Date: June 20, 2005 Publisher: Frances Lincoln Children's Books Reading Level: Ages 9-12 Studio: Frances Lincoln Children's Books Sales Rank: 173497 Related Items:
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Editorial Review: Product Description: An entertaining and well-researched introduction to the great inventors of the world, this book contains facts, both serious and comic. Spanning a period of thousands of years — from the unknown inventor of the wheel to the research teams at work today on space and computer technology — author Gillian Clements presents a splendid celebration of the ingenuity of people throughout history. Young readers learn about the motivations, struggles, and achievements of such inventors as Leonardo da Vinci, Isaac Newton, Benjamin Franklin, Alfred Nobel, Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, Orville Wright, Albert Einstein, and many more. Average Rating:
 Rating: - Wow! It will draw you in.This is a fantastic book. I have the softcover edition. We got this because we were talking about Thomas Edison and reading the Edison Childhoods of Famous Americans book. This is an excellent tie-in, and so much more. The pages are high-quality paper, and each inventor gets a page (some get a two-page spread). You get historical context for the time period the inventor was living -- there is an illustrated timeline at the bottom of the pages. Then you get a large section of text ... Read More: |
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