Science: Sorted! Robots, Chips and Techno Stuff
Published on 5. August 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
256 pages
978-0-330-50896-4 (ISBN)
Description
What's inside a laptop? How can you stuff 1,000 CDs into an mp3 player? Who built the Internet? How smart is the world's smartest robot? How do smartphones and TV remote controls work?
Glenn Murphy, author of Why is Snot Green?, answers these and lots of other brilliant technology questions in Robots, Chips and Techno Stuff. This fact-filled book is packed to capacity with megabytes of marvellous information, exploring everything from the first simple engines to the latest gadgets, computers and networks.
Discover more funny science with Space: The Whole Whizz-Bang Story.
Glenn Murphy, author of Why is Snot Green?, answers these and lots of other brilliant technology questions in Robots, Chips and Techno Stuff. This fact-filled book is packed to capacity with megabytes of marvellous information, exploring everything from the first simple engines to the latest gadgets, computers and networks.
Discover more funny science with Space: The Whole Whizz-Bang Story.
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Edition
Unabridged edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Pan Macmillan
Target group
Children/juvenile
Interest Age: From 9 to 11 years
Edition type
Unabridged edition
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Dimensions
Height: 197 mm
Width: 130 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
187 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-330-50896-4 (9780330508964)
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Glenn Murphy
Science: Sorted! Robots, Chips and Techno Stuff
E-Book
08/2011
Macmillan Children's Books
€8.49
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Person
Glenn Murphy received his masters in science communication from London's Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine. He wrote his first popular science book, Why is Snot Green?, while managing the Explainer team at the Science Museum in London. He lives and works in Raleigh, North Carolina, with his wife, Heather, and two unusually large and ill-tempered cats.