The Picture History of Great Inventors - Hardcover

Clements, Gillian

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 067984788X ISBN 13: 9780679847885

Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 1994

Synopsis

A decade-by-decade picture catalog with more than eight hundred drawings, including everything from raincoats to radios, features nearly fifty major inventors and provides dozens of little-known facts about inventions by women and African Americans.

About this title

About the Author

Gillian Clements was born in Sussex and grew up mainly on a farm. After studying Geography at Newcastle University, she took a degree course in Illustration under Raymond Briggs at Brighton Polytechnic. Since graduating she has written and illustrated manypopular books for Macmillan, Franklin Watts, A&C Black and Scholastic as well as Frances Lincoln. She now lives in Hereford. Her books for Frances Lincoln are A Picture History of Great Buildings, A Picture History of Great Explorers and A Picture History of Great Inventors.

From the Inside Flap

ll color. This visual catalog of the technical achievements that have shaped our lives is illustrated with hundreds of colorful, informative cartoon-style drawings. From the unknown inventor of the wheel to scientists at work on tomorrow's space stations, nearly 50 major inventors are featured, each set in a border brimming with pictorial details of other events and inventions of the time, giving readers a glimpse of that era.

Edition details

• Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 067984788X
• ISBN 13: 9780679847885
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English