So You Want To Be An Inventor?

by Judith St. George

2020-11-23 12:32:46

St. George and Small, the Caldecott Medal-winning team who created So You Want to Be President?, are back with another spirited and witty look at history-this time focusing on the inventors and inventions who have given us lightbulbs, automobiles, an... Read more
St. George and Small, the Caldecott Medal-winning team who created So You Want to Be President?, are back with another spirited and witty look at history-this time focusing on the inventors and inventions who have given us lightbulbs, automobiles, and all the other things that keep the world humming.

So You Want to Be an Inventor? features some of the world''s best-known inventors-Thomas Edison, Benjamin Franklin, Eli Whitney-as well as lesser-known geniuses like Georges de Mestral (inventor of Velcro), Wilhelm Roentgen (inventor of X rays), and Hedy Lamarr (inventor of a system that became the basis for satellite communication-who knew?). Whether you''re a dreamer or a loner, a copycat or a daredevil, this book might just inspire readers to invent something that could change the world! Less

Book Details

File size11.5 X 9.12 X 0.17 in
Print pages56
PublisherPenguin Young Readers Group
Publication date September 8, 2005
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780142404607

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