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Everything You Need to Know About - Inventions

Everything You Need to Know About - Inventions

Colin Salter, Michael Heatley

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  • Everything you need to know about the world’s greatest inventions presented in a way you’ll never forget

  • An innovative, informative and exciting way to learn all the key facts and figures about this fascinating subject

  • Written and illustrated in a way that makes even the most technical breakthroughs easy for the general reader to grasp and understand

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    Product Description

    From the invention of the wheel to the World Wide Web, this book lives up to its promise. In these pages you’ll find everything you need to know (and more) about this fascinating subject. Offering a comprehensive overview of man’s greatest achievements, this book covers all of the major breakthroughs in the worlds of science and technology. As well as the groundbreaking inventions, you’ll also discover a few of the more quirky creations that have had a surprising impact on our day-to-day lives. Along the way you’ll find out who first wore spectacles, when the first newspaper was printed, who took the first photograph, when the first phone call was made, who drove the first car, who sent the first email and when the first song was downloaded. Besides covering everything you need to know, this book is packed with visually stimulating and easy-to-remember illustrations, bar graphs, pie charts, timelines and diagrams. This book is also perfect for kids – including those of the adult variety – who are keen to learn all the important stuff they’ll need to know in a way that they’ll never forget.

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    Imprint Portico
    ISBN 9781907554421
    Publication Date 5 Apr 2012
    Format Paperback
    Dimensions 225 x 225 (h x w)
    Page Extent 224
    Illustrations Each page filled with color illustrations, charts and diagrams
    View Inside Pages Not Yet Available
    Author Colin Salter, Michael Heatley
    About the Author

    Michael Heatley has contributed to many rock music encyclopedias, including the Virgin Encyclopedia of Rock(1996), and music biographies, including Eminem (2001) and Deep Purple (2007). He has written for magazines including Music Week, Billboard and Record Collector. His most recent titles for Anova include: Music That Shook The World (2008), Stars and Guitars (2010) and The Girl in The Song (2010). Colin Salter is a history and science writer with a fascination for how things work, and how they used to work. He has written about everything from the sinking of the Titanic to the private lives of marine gastropods. His contributions to Chambers' Biographical Dictionary include the entries for 500 living scientists. This is his seventh collaboration with Michael Heatley.

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