This fascinating new series looks at key inventions that have shaped the way we live. Each book takes a specific area of invention, such as communications, and follows the development and progression of items within this, such as printing presses and satellites. The books cover life before the invention, its impact, key players, their mistakes and successes and the breakthough's later evolution. Each book contains: - biography boxes of key people named in the science curriculum - "bad" inventions boxes for particularly disastrous inventions that didn't work - key date charts - "how it works" diagrams

 

This book is part of a book series called Great Inventions .

This book is aimed at the following children: primary school, secondary school .

There are 48 pages in this book. This book was published 2002 by Capstone Global Library Ltd .

Paul Dowswell trained as a historian and teacher. He is now a freelance writer and editor.