Inventions that could have changed the world ... but didn't! / Joe Rhatigan ; illustrations by Anthony Owsley.
Material type: TextPublisher: Watertown, MA : Imagine Publishing, [2015]Description: 80 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cmContent type:- still image
- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 1623540240
- 9781623540241
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Children's Book | Main Library | Children's NonFiction | 609 R468 | Available | 33111007974435 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
The fascinating stories of inventions that could have changed the world, should have made a difference, or would have astounded us all, but for one reason or another, didn't. Some inventions were too wacky, weird, or unwieldy. Other simply didn't work. And still others may be the next big thing . . . some day. Learn about the inventors, what they thought they would accomplish, and what--if anything--they did accomplish. Zany illustrations of the contraptions in use throughout.
"An Imagine Book"--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references (page 76), and subject and inventor indexes.
Outlines the process of making and patenting inventions and presents innovations in such fields as transportation, appliances, child and pet care, and amusement that did not work, were too early or too late, or failed for other reasons.