Describes the history of technology and how various inventions have changed the world. Features many color photographs of historical inventions.

Offers historical facts about a number of popular toys, including Mr. Potato Head, Raggedy Ann, Play-Doh, and the Slinky.

In this well-illustrated book, inventors and their inventions are presented around a variety of settings such as house, office, farm, on the water, pictures and sound, computers and robots, biotechnology, and many more.

A collection of humerous inventions, such as the "metal detector/crutch combo" and "classic fiction bathroom tissue"

When Mr. Cheeseman and his three "smart, polite, and relatively odor-free" children journey to the not-so-distant past, they meet something utterly surprising--the alternate versions of themselves.

"A smart, lively history of the world economy, seen through the crucial inventions that shaped it. Who thought up paper money? What was the secret element that made the Gutenberg printing press possible? What is the connection between The Da Vinci Code and the collapse of Lehman Brothers? In [this book], author and economist Tim Harford paints an epic yet intimate picture of economic change by telling the stories of the ideas, people, and tools that...

A young aspiring engineer must first conquer her fear of failure. .

"Introduces readers to the life, world, and incredible mind of Leonardo da Vinci through hands-on building projects that explore his invention ideas." --From publisher's description.

Provides instructions for making seventy-five contraptions that demonstrate friction, gravity, energy, motion, and other principles of physics and explains how to think like an inventor.

Griffin Bing and his friends are trying to locate Mr. Fielder's missing thirty million dollar lottery ticket, and thwart the local bully, Darren Vader, who wants to find it for himself--and Mr. Bing's latest invention may help.