Book Description
A guide to ancient accomplishments and inventions unearths the origins of modern creations, including computers in ancient Greece, plastic surgery in India in the first century B.C., and a postal service in medieval Baghdad
Author : Peter J. James
Publisher : Random House Digital, Inc.
Page : 702 pages
File Size : 46,66 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Reference
ISBN : 0345401026
A guide to ancient accomplishments and inventions unearths the origins of modern creations, including computers in ancient Greece, plastic surgery in India in the first century B.C., and a postal service in medieval Baghdad
Author : Steven Caney
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,1 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Inventions
ISBN : 9780894800764
A project book for the would-be inventor with activities, a list of "contraptions" in need of invention, and the stories behind thirty-six existing inventions.
Author : Ian Harrison
Publisher :
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 43,94 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Inventions
ISBN : 9781844031849
This encyclopedia of inventions provides the dates, the details and the stories of how we gained some of the things we now take for granted. Every possible invention is covered from the simple paperclip to the irritating parking meter.
Author : Jack Challoner
Publisher : Barrons Educational Series Incorporated
Page : 960 pages
File Size : 29,66 MB
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 9780764161360
Presents a review of technological innovations and inventions, from the ancient world to the present day.
Author : Chiara Frugoni
Publisher :
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 16,64 MB
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 9780231128131
Identifies the technological innovations of the middle ages, noting how such ubiquitous items as eyeglasses, books, arabic numbers, underwear, banks, the game of chess, clocks, and domesticated cats came into being during the period.
Author : James Dyson
Publisher : Carroll & Graf Pub
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 33,34 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780786709038
A handsome, lavishly illustrated volume celebrates the human genius for invention from the dawn of civilization to the beginning of the new millennium.
Author : DK
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 12,25 MB
Release : 2014-07-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1465434917
Amazing discoveries and inventions of the last eight years bring this new edition of 1,000 Inventions and Discoveries up to date. Uncover the stories behind 1,000 remarkable inventions and discoveries that have shaped our world, from making fire to the gadgets of the 21st century. This revised and updated edition brings this comprehensive review of humanity's greatest ideas up to date. It is packed with discoveries and innovations in science, space, technology, transportation, medicine, mathematics, and language, along with a history timeline.
Author : Lorraine Hopping Egan
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 27,22 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780590103886
Presents reproducible cross-curricular activities for grades four through eight on historic and modern inventions and inventors, and includes ideas for student inventions.
Author : John Cassidy
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,93 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Inventions
ISBN : 9781591748793
From the same brains who brought you The Encyclopedia of Immaturity comes The Klutz Book of Inventions, a 200-page catalog of never-before-seen contraptions that are equal parts brilliant, useful, and ridiculous. None of them exist as actual products, but in a better world, a funnier world, they would all be household essentials.One of the most ambitous projects we've ever undertaken, this compendium was created over the course of hundreds of brainstorm hours by an all-star team from Klutz and IDEO, the world's foremost product design firm. Each of the inventions was actually built in the legendary IDEO workshop before being photographed (usually in action) and described on its own page.
Author : Maynard Frank Wolfe
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 47,5 MB
Release : 2000-11-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0684867249
Welcome to the world of that archetypal American, Reuben Lucius Goldberg, the dean of American cartoonists for most of the twentieth century. For more than sixty-five years, Rube Goldberg's syndicated cartoons -- he produced more than fifty strips -- appeared in as many as a thousand newspapers annually He was earning a hundred thousand dollars a year...in 1915. He wrote hit songs and stories and was, in succession, a star in vaudeville, motion pictures, newsreels, radio, and, finally, television. He even, at the age of eighty, began an entirely new career as a sculptor, and, in inimitable Goldberg fashion, was soon selling his work to galleries, collectors, and museums all over the world. Sure, Rube won the Pulitzer Prize. Every yearsomecartoonist wins the Pulitzer Prize. But the National Cartoonists Societynamedits award -- the Reuben -- after you-know-who. But it was Rube's "Inventions," those drawings of intricate and whimsical machines, that earned Rube his very own entry inWebster's New World Dictionary: Rube Goldberg...adjective...Designating any very complicated invention, machine, scheme, etc. laboriously contrived to perform a seemingly simple operation. "Inventions," even the earliest ones that date from 1914, are still being republished and recycled today as they have been over the last eighty-five years. New generations rediscover and enjoy them every day, even though their creator cleaned his pens, put the cap on his bottle of Higgins Black India Ink, and cleared his drawing board for the last time almost thirty years ago. The inventions inspired the National Rube Goldberg™ Machine Contest, held annually at Purdue University, an "Olympics of complexity" in which hundreds of engineering students from American universities and colleges -- and even middle and high schools -- compete to build and run Rube Goldberg invention machines that perform, in twenty or more steps, the annual challenge. In 1970 the Smithsonian Institution hosted a show honoring Rube Goldberg's lifework. In a life filled with superlatives, it hardly needs mentioning that Rube is the only living cartoonist and humorist to have been so honored. In his speech at the show's opening, Rube said, "Many of the younger generation know my name in a vague way and connect it with grotesque inventions, but don't believe that I ever existed as a person. They think I am a nonperson, just a name that signifies a tangled web of pipes or wires or strings that suggest machinery. My name to them is like spiral staircase, veal cutlets, barber's itch -- terms that give you an immediate picture of what they mean..." So welcome to a collection of spiral staircases and veal cutlets -- to the inventions of an American original, a creative genius named Rube Goldberg.