Invention

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Why was the invention of the wheel so important? Who invented the flushing toilet? This guide features different human inventions that have helped to shape the world we live in, from the earliest primitive tools to advanced plastic fibres.

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Horn Book Review

Color photographs. Grouped under headings, a wide variety of inventions are illustrated by excellent photographs and discussed in a brief text. Great fun for browsing. Index. From HORN BOOK 1991, (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

Kirkus Book Review

An ``Eyewitness'' book based on beautiful photographs of items in the British Science Museum, accompanied by a superficial text with smarmy, labored paragraph headings. The credits involve at least 40 people in addition to the author; the final conglomeration can be inconsistent--e.g., the same firebow is shown on two pages with different, conflicting captions--with lots of mislabeled pictures here, and little basic science or discussion of why the inventions were important. Handsome but slight. Index. (Nonfiction. 8-12)