Author: Laura Hamilton Waxman
Series: Awesome Inventions You Use Every Day
Narrator: Intuitive
Unabridged: 0 hr 30 min
Format: Digital Audiobook
Publisher: Findaway
Published: 01/01/2017
Genre: Children & Young Adults Nonfiction - Technology - Inventions
Includes: Bonus PDF
Did you realize that swimming suits used to weigh 22 pounds (about 10 kilograms)? Or that the first people to wear high heels were French royalty (even the king!) in the 1500s? Get ready to learn the amazing stories behind inventions you use every day. From the society woman who invented bras to the Swiss inventor who came up with the idea for Velcro, you'll find out how we got some of our favorite fashion inventions.
Tells the story of how Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin, and the effects it had on the Southern United States. Written in graphic-novel format.
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Tells the story of Johann Gutenberg and the invention of the printing press. Written in graphic-novel format.
Tells the story of how Alexander Graham Bell came up with the telephone, and how his invention changed the way people communicate.
Tells the story of Madam C. J. Walker, who invented a line of African American hair products and cosmetics that her to become the first self-made female millionaire of any race. Written in graphic-novel format.
History?s amazing secrets and codes?and how to crack them yourself. This fascinating look at history?s most mysterious messages is packed with puzzles to decode and ciphers that kids can use themselves. Here are the encrypted notes of Spartan warrio...
Tells the story of French scientist Louis Pasteur and his invention of the pasteurization process. Written in graphic-novel format.
Tells the story of how Philo Farnsworth came up with the idea for electronic television at age 14, and later developed his idea into the technology for television that is still used today. Written in graphic-novel format.
From Karyn Parson's critically acclaimed Sweet Blackberry video series comes the little known story of Garrett Morgan, an African American inventor who created the traffic signal.Before Garrett Morgan became a successful inventor and saved count...