Inventions category: 208 books
From Here to There
The Story of How We Transport Ourselves and Everything Else
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
This lively history of transportation follows our fascinating route from primitive technology like sandals to driverless cars and beyond!
Since humans first stood upright, we've been on the move. Need food? Water? Land? A place to live? Survival depends upon motion. For thousands of years,...
by Elizabeth R. C. Cregan
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
Thomas Edison is one of the most famous inventors of all time. This appealing biography will have readers enthralled as they discover some of Edison's most incredible inventions, including the light bulb and the phonograph. Along with his inventions, readers will also learn about his early life and...
Genius Engineering Inventions
From the Plow to 3D Printing
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Tin cans were first produced in London in 1813. But they had to be opened with a hammer and chisel, because the can opener wasn't invented until 1855! Check out other amazing engineering innovations, such as a popular soft drink originally sold as a "brain tonic," an 18th-century battery called a...
by Mary Lindeen
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 26, 2018
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 26, 2018
Find out how inventions such as the lightbulb and the automobile have changed the way we live by reading Then and Now.
by Jennifer Kroll
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 6, 2017
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 6, 2017
Get readers excited to learn about the various technological innovations that have occurred throughout history--and what could be possible in the future! Through informational text, interesting and intriguing facts in conjunction with vivid images, diagrams, and charts, readers will learn about miraculous...
by Margaret Frith, Who HQ
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2005
One day in 1882, Thomas Edison flipped a switch that lit up lower Manhattan with incandescent light and changed the way people live ever after. The electric light bulb was only one of thousands of Edison’s inventions, which include the phonograph and the kinetoscope, an early precursor to the movie...
Thomas Edison for Kids
His Life and Ideas, 21 Activities
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2006
Thomas Edison, one of the world's greatest inventors, is introduced in this fascinating activity book. Children will learn how Edison ushered in an astounding age of invention with his unique way of looking at things and refusal to be satisfied with only one solution to a problem. This book helps...
Timeless Thomas
How Thomas Edison Changed Our Lives
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
What do record players, batteries, and movie cameras have in common?
All these devices were created by the man known as The Wizard of Menlo Park: Thomas Edison.
Edison is most famous for inventing the incandescent lightbulb, but at his landmark laboratories in Menlo Park & West Orange,...
Innovation Nation
How Canadian Innovators Made the World Smarter, Smaller, Kinder, Safer, Healthier, Wealthier, Happier
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
This young readers edition of Ingenious focuses on 50 kid-friendly Canadian innovations that changed the world, from canoes to whoopie cushions, chocolate bars to Pablum. Co-written by Canada's Governor General and accompanied by contemporary illustrations, this adaptation offers young Canadians a...
by Mary Ann Fraser
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
Well before Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone, Aleck (as his family called him) was a curious boy, interested in how and why he was able to hear the world all around him. His father was a speech therapist who invented the Visible Alphabet and his mother was hearing impaired, which only...
Tick-Tock!
Measuring Time
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
**What time is it . . . and how do you know?
This fact- and photo-filled Smithsonian Penguin Young Reader will fill you in on how people first began measuring time and why knowing "when" is important.**
Time is when things happen and how long they take to happen--but how long is all...
by Lori Haskins Houran
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2019
Learn about the life of Thomas Edison in this early reader biography.
Most people today know Thomas Edison as the inventor of the light bulb—except, he isn’t! In Edison’s time, other inventors were working on the light bulb, but no one could figure out how to keep the light bulb lit....
ReMaking History, Volume 1
Early Makers
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2016
William Gurstelle begins his remarkable journey through history with this volume, Early Makers. Each chapter examines a remarkable individual or group of people from the past whose insights and inventions helped create the world we live in. What sets this series apart from other history books - including...
Innovators
The Stories Behind the People Who Shaped the World with 25 Projects
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2017
Most people have heard of Thomas Edison, Steve Jobs, and Mark Zuckerberg, but how about Daniel Hale Williams, Mae Jemison, and Mary Anderson? The world owes a lot to the unsung heroes of innovation, people who used their ideas to make the world a better place through advances in health, technology,...