Eureka!
Author(s): Richard Platt
This title looks at the instances when some of the world's greatest inventions were conceived. It demonstrates how sheer creative genius enables, a few lucky individuals to look right through the problem, and come up with a solution that has eluded rivals.
Product Information
Everyday life and health: pendulum clock; inoculation; matches; pre-fabricated buildings, cotton gin, razor blades; antibiotics, frozen food, Post-It notes, nylon, Teflon, Velcro, microwave oven, cancer research breakthrough, Sir Paul Nurse. Getting around: stump-jump plough; hot air balloon; steam engine; elevator; powered flight; hovercraft. Lenses and light: telescope; photography; photocopier; polaroid camera. electricity: lightning conductor, battery (electric), telephone, telephone exchange, electric light bulb, radio, television. Patience and planning - sound recording, bicycle, vacuum cleaner, personal stereo, video games, Internet (World-Wide-Web).
General Fields
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- : Pan Macmillan
- : Kingfisher Books Ltd
- : 0.752
- : 20 October 2003
- : 284mm X 221mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Special Fields
- : Richard Platt
- : Hardback
- : 609
- : 8+
- : 96
- : chronology, glossary, index, colour digital artworks and photographs