How They Made Things Work: In the Age of Industry
No. of pages 32
Published: 2018
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This book is part of a book series called How They Made Things Work .
This book has been graded for interest at 9-11 years.
There are 32 pages in this book. This book was published in 2018 by Hachette Children's Group .
Richard Platt is a renowned non-fiction writer, whose previous titles include Pirate Diary which won the 2002 Kate Greenaway Medal. To visit Richard's website click here David Lawrence is an experienced author of books for this age group including The Superglue Sandwich, Travels with My Zebra and Killer Ping-Pong. He is a former Scripture Union schools worker and currently pastors a church in Yate near Bristol.
This book has the following chapters:
- 1: How they made things work in the
- 2: age of industry
- 3: Steam railways
- 4: Iron ships
- 5: Light bulb
- 6: Telegraph
- 7: Photography
- 8: Cinema
- 9: Recorded sound
- 10: Machine gun
- 11: Mass production
- 12: Wireless telegraphy
- 13: Motor car
- 14: Tunnelling
- 15: Glossary/websites
- 16: Index
This book is in the following series:
