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Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2007.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster paperback edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 304 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Explores the accidents of time, place, and circumstance that culminated in the century's technological achievements: the computer, the telephone, the production line, the airplane, the atomic bomb, the guided rocket, plastics, and television.
Author
Language
English
Description
A twelve-year-old boy, worried that his parents may divorce, discovers that an island in the middle of the lake where he is spending the summer is the testing grounds of the mysterious Dr. Libris, who may have invented a way to make the characters in books come alive.
Author
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
123 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
A comprehensive overview and time line of human history. MacLeod and Wishinsky provide a one-stop source for all the great events, people, and inventions that changed history, from the discovery of fire to the revolutions in the Arab world that are making headlines today.
Author
Series
Publisher
Aladdin, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First Aladdin paperback/hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
134 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Frankie Sparks, the self-proclaimed "best inventor in the third grade," does research and creates a tool to try to persuade her classmates that a rat would make the best class pet.
Author
Series
Chronicles of America volume 37
Publisher
Yale University Press; [etc., etc.]
Pub. Date
1921.
Physical Desc
xii, 267 pages : frontispiece, plates, portraits ; 21 cm.
Language
English
77) Marveltown
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Marveltown's adults are outstanding inventors, but when their best engineers create giant but stupid robots that threaten the town, it is the children's outrageous creations that save the day.
Author
Series
Data Set volume 1
Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First Little Simon hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
125 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Three second-graders who love science get thrown in a wild spiral of adventures after meeting their reclusive neighbor, Dr. Gustav Bunsen. When Dr. Bunsen's growth ray hits a crate of animal figurines, the toys not only start growing, but also come to life"--
Author
Publisher
McGraw-Hill
Pub. Date
©2013
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations
Language
English
Description
Spelling out exactly what a corporate inventor needs to know about patents and patent strategy; this book explains in clear; easy-to-understand language how to secure patents that deliver the most possible value to the organization and build legal protections into properties from the outset. --
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