Inspirational Lives: Tim Berners-Lee
No. of pages 32
Published: 2017
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The series focuses on the people who inspire children today. Each book looks at the background, life and achievements of a personality, their impact on popular culture as well as detailing the everyday facets of their job and how they have gained such success.
This title explores how Tim Bernes-Lee, the British born computer scientist, became the man to invent the World Wide Web. Carrying on to become the Director of the World Wide Web Consortium, Tim Bernes-Lee has been awarded for 'ground breaking innovation in engineering that has been of global benefit to humanity', and will continue to inspire for generations.
This book is part of a book series called Inspirational Lives .
This book has been graded for interest at 9-11 years.
There are 32 pages in this book. This book was published 2017 by Hachette Children's Group .
Claudia Martin has worked in book publishing for 17 years. She is the author of several books and websites for children and young people. Her favourite subjects are history, current affairs and technology.
This book has the following chapters:
- 1: `This is for everyone'
- 2: Cardboard computer
- 3: A banana skins itself
- 4: Whistling trains
- 5: Do it yourself
- 6: Stepping into the world
- 7: A day in the life
- 8: Enquire within upon everything
- 9: Two proposals
- 10: The first website
- 11: Going global
- 12: The Consortium
- 13: A world wide change
- 14: Have you got what it takes to be an inventor?
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