Brain Power : What's the Big Idea? 2,400,000 Years of Inventions
Author(s): David Stewart
What's the Big Idea? explores the story of inventions through the ages and explains how ideas and technology from different countries and times are built on and developed - that inventions don't just 'happen'. Stunningly illustrated throughout, and with a clear text, it covers many important inventions, from the first stone axe to genetic engineering and the internet - not forgetting the 2,400,000 years in between! The lives of famous and not-so-famous inventors are described. Men and women from different cultural backgrounds, whose major contributions have been overlooked in the past, are included. A time line of events puts inventions in their historical context, showing how wars and trade push ideas forward.
Product Information
General Fields
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- : koala
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- : 01 October 2005
- : 282mm X 219mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Special Fields
- : David Stewart
- : Hardback
- : New edition
- : 609
- : 64
- : colour artwork