Bleeps and Blips to Rocket Ships: Great Inventions in Communications
Language: English
Published by Tundra Books, 2001
- Softcover
- New
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- Title
- Bleeps and Blips to Rocket Ships: Great Inventions in Communications
- Author
- Hegedus, Alannah; Rainey, Kaitlin; Slavin, Bill
- Publisher
- Tundra Books
- Publication year
- 2001
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0887764525
- ISBN 13
- 9780887764523
- Illustrator
- Slavin, Bill
Meet:
Reginald Fessenden, who thought of a continuous wireless signal when he noted the ripples resulting from a rock he tossed in a lake;
Alexander Graham Bell, who made his famous call - "Mr. Watson, come here! I want you!" - because he had spilled acid onto his trousers;
William Stephenson, inventor of the wirephoto, who was a spy during the Second World War.
From newsprint to fiber optics, discover ten great inventions in this fascinating book, and a great resource for science projects and science fairs:
- Make your own paper
- Create your own halftone image
- Make your own pinhole camera
- Make a telegraph
- Use Morse code
- Make a light fountain
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About the Author
Kaitlin Rainey is a doctoral student in English and an actress.
Bill Slavin has illustrated numerous books of non-fiction, specializing in creating images that inform as well as entertain.
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