Amazing Inventions That Changed The World: The True Stories About The Revolutionary And Accidental Inventions That Changed Our World
Language: English
Published by LAK Publishing, 2022
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- Title
- Amazing Inventions That Changed The World: The True Stories About The Revolutionary And Accidental Inventions That Changed Our World
- Author
- O'Neill, Bill
- Publisher
- LAK Publishing
- Publication year
- 2022
- Condition
- good
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1648450881
- ISBN 13
- 9781648450884
Humankind have accomplished incredible things, and this book will remind you just how great we can be!
In this book, you will learn about how things we take for granted now completely revolutionized the world back then. Inventions like paper, the steam engine, the printing press, electricity and, of course, the computer!
You’ll find yourself captivated by the interesting stories that led to these inventions and learn things like:
- Which invention needed 24 orphan boys to travel across the Atlantic Ocean on a slow-moving ship?
- Why did George Westinghouse and Nikola Tesla make Thomas Edison so angry?
- Which invention led to the First Industrial Revolution?
- Which is the only book Johannes Gutenberg was able to print on the printing press he invented?
- Which invention has likely saved 200 million lives?
Amazing Inventions That Changed the World will give you the answers to these questions and many more. The book is divided into ten easily to read chapters.
Each chapter covers one of the amazing inventions, giving the history leading up to the invention, what people were doing before the invention appeared on the scene, the story behind it, and the impact it had on the world.
The book uses simple language to make history come alive Amazing Inventions That Changed the World debunks some facts that everyone thinks they know about these inventions and gives the real story.
This book is a fun and interesting read for the whole family to enjoy so get it now and start learning!
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