Books in Great Inventions series

Great Inventions is a captivating chronicle of major technological advances that have shaped everyday life over the past two centuries. Each book provides an in-depth look at the dedicated individuals behind each invention, a history of each invention's development, and its present-day use and continuing evolution. Engaging text and informative sidebars join with archival and contemporary images to demonstrate how innovative thinking and determination can change the world.

This beautifully engineered glimpse into the world and works of Leonardo Da Vinci is a spectacular 3-D celebration of one of the world's most creative minds. Presented as the master's previously undiscovered private journal, it recreates his original notes, drawings, and astonishing inventions. Superlative paper engineering allows his prophetic visions to literally leap off the page in full working splendor to make this a book to treasure.

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