
How Nearly Everything Was Invented by the Brainwaves
Jilly MacLeod(Editor)
DK Children (Publisher)
Published on 7. September 2006
Book
Hardback
64 pages
978-1-4053-1329-2 (ISBN)
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Description
A brilliant book bursting with big ideas
Meet the Brainwaves, hilarious little mischief makers with big ideas. Pint-sized pals who'll show you around and tell you all about key inventions, the breakthroughs that lead to them and spectacular spin offs which followed...
When was the wheel first used? Who were the bright sparks that thought of the light bulb? And what connects a teapot to a 400 kph train? Find out all about more than 300 key inventions that changed the world (and lead to almost everything else that's ever been invented).
Fantastic fold-out pages reveal the who, what, when, where and why of each invention and explain the way it transformed the way we live.
Meet the Brainwaves, hilarious little mischief makers with big ideas. Pint-sized pals who'll show you around and tell you all about key inventions, the breakthroughs that lead to them and spectacular spin offs which followed...
When was the wheel first used? Who were the bright sparks that thought of the light bulb? And what connects a teapot to a 400 kph train? Find out all about more than 300 key inventions that changed the world (and lead to almost everything else that's ever been invented).
Fantastic fold-out pages reveal the who, what, when, where and why of each invention and explain the way it transformed the way we live.
Reviews / Votes
"This is the sort of innovative book DK is renowned for...It is cleverly done, with imaginative fold-outs and time-lines, as well as a huge amount of information packed into 64 pages." Publishing News 02/06/06More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Dorling Kindersley Ltd
Target group
Children/juvenile
Interest Age: From 8 to 11 years
Dimensions
Height: 311 mm
Width: 258 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
766 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4053-1329-2 (9781405313292)
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Lisa Swerling | Ralph Lazar
How Nearly Everything Was Invented by the Brainwaves
Book
02/2008
DK Children
€29.89
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Persons
Illustrated by Lisa Sterling and Ralph Lazar, the husband and wife team who established LastLemon Productions in 1999, which originates, produces and licenses cartoon properties, including Harold's Planet and Vimrod.