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Paper Over Board : $12.99 Buy	Inventions Kingfisher Knowledge James Robinson Kingfisher Today's readers are fascinated by the idea of "ife before technology." Inventions examines the ideas, machines, and technology that have shaped the modern age....

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Eureka!

Great Inventions and How They Happened

Richard Platt Kingfisher

Eureka! looks at the instances in which some of the world's greatest inventions were conceived and explains how creative genius has enabled some individuals to...

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Trade Paperback : $8.99 Buy	Kingfisher Knowledge: Inventions Kingfisher Knowledge James Robinson Kingfisher Inventions examines the ideas, machines, and innovations that have shaped the modern age, from the cell-phone revolution to the incredible growth of the...

Trade Paperback : $8.99 Buy	Navigators: Technology Navigators Peter Kent Kingfisher Get inside the minds of scientists, engineers and programmers, and unravel the workings of the modern world. Technology is an authoritative and visually...

Trade Paperback : $7.99 Buy	Brainstorm! The Stories of Twenty American Kid Inventors Tom Tucker; Drawings by Richard Loehle Sunburst Paperbacks Here are some of the incredible kid inventions you can read about in Brainstorm! Earmuffs (1873) Colored car wax (1991) Electronic television (1927) The...

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Robots Rising

Carol Sonenklar and John Kaufmann Henry Holt and Co.

Scientists are using robo-insects to study insect behavior. Meet robo-roach-the bionic bug. The days of industrial-looking robots with mechanical voices and...

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Hardcover : $17.00 Buy	A Subway for New York David Weitzman Farrar, Straus and Giroux A behind-thescenes look at an underground miracle On October 27, 1904, the first section of the most famous subway system in the world was opened for...

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Now & Ben

The Modern Inventions of Benjamin Franklin

Gene Barretta; illustrations by Gene Barretta Square Fish

Biography and history come to life in this celebration of the inventions and ideas of Benjamin Franklin and how they’ve stood the test of time....

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Lifelines: Leonardo Da Vinci

Lifelines

by Steve Augarde Kingfisher

At just twelve years old, Paulo becomes an apprentice to Leonardo da Vinci, the brilliant artist and inventor. Dull is not how Paulo describes life in...

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Paper Over Board : $16.99 Buy	Robots by Steve Weston Kingfisher Collect samples from the crater of a red-hot volcano using a robotic investigator. Guide a landing rover across the surface of Mars, and search for lifeforms....

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Lifelines: Leonardo DaVinci

Lifelines

by Steve Augarde Kingfisher

At just twelve years old, Paulo becomes an apprentice to Leonardo da Vinci, the brilliant artist and inventor. Dull is not how Paulo describes life in...

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The Longitude Prize

Joan Dash; Illustrated by Dusan Petricic Frances Foster Books

A Robert F. Sibert Honor Book By the start of the eighteenth century, many thousands of sailors had perished at sea because their captains had no way of...

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Something Out of Nothing

Marie Curie and Radium

Carla Killough McClafferty Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Marie Curie’s story has fascinated and inspired young readers decades. The poor Polish girl who worked eight years to be able to afford to attend the...

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Hardcover : $16.95 Buy	Wee and the Wright Brothers Timothy R. Gaffney; illustrated by Bernadette Pons Henry Holt and Co. Wilbur and Orville began packing the Flyer into a wooden crate. Wee's little heart skipped a beat. "They're getting ready to go to Kitty Hawk," he told his...

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