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The Inventor's Workshop: How People and Machines Transformed Each Other

The Inventor's Workshop: How People and Machines Transformed Each Other

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The Inventor's Workshop: How People and Machines Transformed Each Other

Overview

Explore ten inventions that changed the world in The Inventor’s Workshop: How People and Machines Transformed Each Other, the debut children’s book from award-winning inventor Ruth Amos

Step inside the inventor’s workshop to see how one creative spark leads to another . . . until an invention is born. Find out how, when, and why these ingenious breakthroughs happened, and learn about all the people who created them. Discover how Ada Lovelace’s code inspired Charles Babbage’s work on the first modern computer; see how Lewis Latimer’s technology made Thomas Edison’s light bulb possible; and much more. This STEM book for middle grade readers features:
  • Real-life stories behind 10 great inventions—computer, compass, radio, camera, television, light bulb, engine, telephone, bicycle, and clock
  • Mini biographies and profiles of more than 50 inventors
  • Beautifully illustrated timelines, showing how creations of today exist because of the long line of inventions and inventors that came before
  • Incredible cross-sections, revealing the intricacies of each discovery
Featuring detailed illustration by the inimitable Stacey Thomas, Ruth Amos’s The Inventor’s Workshop is the perfect book for every budding inventor.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781419773488
Publisher: Magic Cat
Publication date: 10/01/2024
Pages: 64
Sales rank: 567,284
Product dimensions: 9.25(w) x 11.40(h) x (d)
Age Range: 8 - 11 Years

About the Author

Ruth Amos is an award-winning inventor, entrepreneur, and edutuber. A true pioneer for engaging children in STEAM subjects, Ruth’s YouTube channel, Kids Invent Stuff (as seen on The One Show, BBC News Online and Tomorrow’s World Live ), offers primary-aged children the chance to have their invention ideas built by real engineers. She lives in the UK. Stacey Thomas is an illustrator and maker based in Oxfordshire, UK. She studied illustration at the University of Brighton, graduating in 2017. She is inspired by folklore, traditional crafts, museums and the natural world, and enjoys comedy, board games and wildlife-spotting in the local countryside.
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