The experiments and advances that transformed the world! This intriguing series covers the breakthroughs of invention that created the way of life that we take for granted today, and the people who made them. Each book looks at one specific part of history and clearly shows how things were in the past and how they have changed over time. Each book in the series contains full colour illustrations, a table of contents and an index.

 

This book is part of a book series called Ideas And Inventions .

There are 48 pages in this book. This book was published 2005 by Pavilion Books .

Phil Wilkinson is a freelance writer and the author of 50 books, as well as being a dad of two. He is a contributor to a number of parenting sites, including the Huffington Post, writing about education, bullying, sex education and teenagers. Carlo Collodi was born in Florence in 1826. The Adventures of Pinocchio is his most famous work. Robert Ingpen was born in 1936 in Geelong, Australia. In 1986, he was awarded the Hans Christian Andersen Medal for his contribution to children's literature and has been honoured with Membership of the Order of Australia.