Inventors and their bright ideas / by Mike Goldsmith ; illustrated by Clive Goddard.
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2002.
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Table of Contents:
- Ancient Archimedes and his menacing machinery
- Leonardo da Vinci and his secret submarine
- Inventors wanted
- James Watt and his hot-and-cold machine
- George Stephenson and his risky railways
- Thomas Edison and his innumerable inventions
- Alexander Graham Bell and his very irritating phone
- The Wright Brothers and their unflappable flying machines
- Guglielmo Marconi and his endless esses
- John Logie Baird and his spinning telly
- Inventors 'R' us
- Dead famous inventions : wheels to starships in easy-to-swallow chunks.
