Inventions category: 208 books

Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and text highlighting to engage reluctant readers! Did you know that the world's first submarine traveled the Thames River in England way back in 1615? Or that early cars had three wheels instead of four? Get ready to learn the fascinating...

30 idées ingénieuses expliquées en 30 secondes aux jeunes inventeurs. Découvre des faits condensés et des informations fascinantes sur 30 inventions sans lesquelles notre monde ne serait pas le même. Lis des minirécits passionnants sur des percées majeures de la science qui ont amélioré...

Take a look at the world's weirdest inventions--from the Goofybike to fart filters. These stories are too strange to be made up! Written with a high interest level to appeal to a more mature audience and a lower level of complexity with clear visuals to help struggling readers along. Considerate text...

Printing words in books originated in China with the invention of movable type. But books aren't the only way we've communicated throughout history. Find out who invented the first radio, which complicated code took 267 years to crack, and how cloth weaving inspired computer programs. Fact-packed...

During the 20th century, many things were invented that made people's lives easier. Vacuum cleaners and washing machines made doing chores easier. Vaccines and penicillin improved public health. Radio and telephones helped communication, and airplanes and automobiles transformed transportation. Featuring...

Did you know that President Thomas Jefferson used a copier? Or that one of the world's fastest computers is the size of a two-story house? Get ready to learn the strange stories behind technology inventions you use every day. From the teenager who first imagined the television to a $900 smartphone...

Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and text highlighting to engage reluctant readers! Did you know that President Thomas Jefferson used a copier? Or that one of the world's fastest computers is the size of a two-story house? Get ready to learn the strange stories behind...

Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and text highlighting to engage reluctant readers! Did you know that a scientist discovered X-rays by accident? Or that people have been taking pain medicine for more than 5,000 years? Get ready to learn the strange stories behind inventions...

Why was the Renaissance such an important period of time in Western history? Who were the innovators who thought of the inventions we still use today? In The Renaissance Inventors with History Projects for Kids, readers 10 through 15 explore the period of European history from the fourteenth...

Bicycles were only invented about two hundred years ago—and the first ones didn't have tires or brakes! But bikes aren't the only way we've tried to conquer the roads, seas, and skies. You'll discover how slow the earliest steam locomotives were, how Leonardo da Vinci designed a flying machine inspired...

Thomas Edison was an inventor.He invented the electric lighting system, the phonograph and alkaline batteries. He invented a camera to record moving pictures and a device for watching them. He added sound to create a motion picture.He worked on and improved many of the machines we use today. He even...

Bridges, furniture, musical instruments, games, vehicles—all of these things were invented and improved upon by people who love to put stuff together, take stuff apart, and figure out how things work! In Explore Makerspace! With 25 Great Projects, readers ages 7 through 10 explore what it...

An introduction to Leonardo da Vinci's genius focusing on his famous notebook sketches and the modern inventions they predicted. In 1781, Thomas Paine came up with a model for a single-span bridge; in 1887, Adolf Eugen Fick made the first pair of contact lenses; and in 1907, Paul Cornu built...

Did you know more people have cell phones than toothbrushes? That Google answers about a billion questions a day? Or that Alexander Graham Bell wanted the standard telephone greeting to be "Ahoy"? Discover these incredible facts and more in the next Fact Attack book, all about inventions...