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112 pages
colour illustrations
Published in association with the Science Museum Contents includes: Giving us power: energy inventions -- Taking us places: transport inventions -- Bringing us closer: information & communication inventions -- Making life easier: household inventions -- Making us better: medical inventions -- Making us safer: accident & crimebusting inventions
Summary: Inventions have the power to change the way we live. Explore over 40 of history's most significant innovations, from flushing toilets to biofuel, microscopes to MRI scanners. Find out how, when and why many of the inventions we take for granted today came about. meet their famous -- and some not-so-famous -- inventors, in this guide to the technology and gadgets that make the world go round