50 Wacky Inventions Throughout History: Weird inventions that seem too crazy to be real!

by Joe Rhatigan, Celeste Aires (Illustrator)

Overview

With 50 Wacky Inventions Throughout History, history has never been so fun--or wacky!

Have you ever heard of a bike TV? Or a bird diaper? 50 Wacky Inventions Throughout History describes 50 inventions that seem too crazy to be true—but are! Whether useful, entertaining, or just plain silly, these mind-boggling inventions and gadgets from yesterday, today, and tomorrow will surprise and delight fun-fact lovers of all ages.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781633224438
Publisher:	Walter Foster Publishing
Publication date:	06/01/2017
Series:	Wacky Series
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	112
File size:	43 MB
Note:	This product may take a few minutes to download.
Age Range:	7 - 12 Years

About the Author

Joe Rhatigan is a writer and editor who lives with his wife and children in Asheville, North Carolina. He has written many acclaimed and award-winning books for children, including White House Kids, Alice in Wonderland: Down the Rabbit Hole, Alice in Wonderland: The Mad Hatter's Tea Party and People You Gotta Meet Before You Grow Up!

Celeste Aires was born in San Juan, Argentina, a town by the Andeans. She grew up in a house with a big garden, two dogs and a little sister. She always loved drawing, painting, sculpting, writing and she always had a big imagination. In 2011, she moved to Buenos Aires to study Animation Direction and became a professional illustrator. She loves mid-century modern styles, geometrical shapes, adventure tales, chocolate, mountains, being outdoors, animals and plants. She also loves learning new things, so she’s always doing workshops and courses, such as silkscreen, letterpress, poster design, character design, among others.
Joe Rhatigan is a writer and editor who lives with his wife and children in Asheville, North Carolina. He has written many acclaimed and award-winning books for children, including White House Kids, Alice in Wonderland: Down the Rabbit Hole, Alice in Wonderland: The Mad Hatter's Tea Party and People You Gotta Meet Before You Grow Up!
Celeste Aires was born in San Juan, Argentina, a town by the Andeans. She grew up in a house with a big garden, two dogs and a little sister. She always loved drawing, painting, sculpting, writing and she always had a big imagination. In 2011, she moved to Buenos Aires to study Animation Direction and became a professional illustrator. She loves mid-century modern styles, geometrical shapes, adventure tales, chocolate, mountains, being outdoors, animals and plants. She also loves learning new things, so she's always doing workshops and courses, such as silkscreen, letterpress, poster design, character design, among others.

Editorial Reviews

"With cartoon illustrations and short paragraphs, this celebration of ingenuity is likely to entertain browsers." – Denise Moore, formerly at O’Gorman Junior High School, Sioux Falls, SD, for School Library Journal

From the Publisher

2017-06-19
The author of Inventions That Could Have Changed the World but Didn't (2015) mocks, or occasionally tips his hat to, a further set of outlandish contraptions.Actually this is more of a spinoff, and an inferior one at that. Several of the same inventions stage encore appearances, Rhatigan's descriptive comments are more cursory overall, and actual patent drawings have been dropped, leaving only cartoons that supply more yuks than insight into how the gadgets work. Still, some products, such as bird diapers marketed as "FlightSuits," armpit air conditioners, and the 42-string "Pikasso" guitar built for Pat Metheny, have gone beyond the conceptual stage, and the author takes care to identify the creators of nearly everything here. Also, there are plenty of truly noodle-headed notions to chortle over (or abhor): a motorized baby carriage; a protective tongue sleeve for cat lickers; a frameless bicycle ("for people who needed more excitement and injuries in their lives"); and a baby onesie that's also a floor mop. In her geometrically stylized illustrations, Aires at least visualizes each invention in action, and her wedge-shaped human figures come in all sorts of primary colors. Good fun, if less grist for young would-be Edisons than the earlier outing. (Nonfiction. 8-11)

Kirkus Reviews