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Bright Ideas - Inventions and Inventors
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Rosie Revere, engineer
by Andrea Beaty
Hiding her prowess as a talented inventor by day, at night Rosie resolves to complete her great-great-aunt Rose's (aka Rosie the Riveter) unfinished flying contraption and is temporarily discouraged when the invention hovers instead of flies, a seeming failure that Aunt Rose encourages her to recognize as an amazing success. By the author of Attack of the Fluffy Bunnies.
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Mousenet
by Prudence E. Breitrose
Delighting a friendly nation of mice when she helps her uncle invent a miniature computer, 10-year-old Megan is followed across the country by mice who want tiny computers of their own and who reveal a secret about how mice have intelligently evolved. A first novel. 35,000 first printing.
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Papa's mechanical fish
by Candace Fleming
Describes the creative life of inventor Lodner Phillips from the perspective of his young daughter, Virena, who observes her father's many partially successful innovations before a fishing trip on Lake Michigan prompts an imaginative question and the creation of a submarine.
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Awesome Dawson
by Chris Gall
All his life, Dawson has been inventing things, repairing toys in unusual ways and helping clean up his neighborhood by reusing discarded objects, but when his Vacu-Maniac malfunctions, it is his friend Mooey whose brainpower saves the day. 35,000 first printing.
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Technology : A Byte-Sized World!
by Dan Green
A latest scientific primer by the best-selling creator of The Periodic Table introduces the revolutionary concepts behind everyday technology, profiling a range of life-changing inventions under such headings as "Movers and Shakers," "Gizmos" and "Home Bodies." Simultaneous.
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Fun food inventions
by Nadia Higgins
Tells the stories behind the invention of familiar foods, including ketchup, fortune cookies, and microwave popcorn
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Poco loco
by J. R. Krause
An unusual rat who enjoys inventing things is unable to convince his picnicking barnyard friends that bad weather is on the way until a sudden storm swoops them up in the air, prompting the resourceful rodent to use his wits and a crazy invention to save the day.
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From the good mountain : how Gutenberg changed the world
by James Rumford
The award-winning author of Silent Music presents a sumptuously illustrated account of how printed books came into existence, describing how the world's first books were made by hand and how Johannes Gutenberg invented a way to print books with moveable type.
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Electrical wizard : how Nikola Tesla lit up the world
by Elizabeth Rusch
An introduction to the pioneering ideas of a leading contributor to modern electrical engineering includes coverage of such topics as his rivalry with Thomas Edison, his innovations in the field of alternating current and his history-changing role in the development of such inventions as remote controls, fluorescent lights and cell phones.
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Bomb : the race to build--and steal--the world's most dangerous weapon
by Steve Sheinkin
A dramatic introduction to the international competition to create the first atomic bomb recounts the scientific discoveries that enabled atom splitting, the military intelligence operations that occurred in rival countries and the work of brilliant scientists hidden at Los Alamos. By the award-winning author of The Notorious Benedict Arnold.
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Terrific transportation inventions
by Laura Hamilton Waxman
"A fun "grab-bag" of off-the-wall factoids introduces readers to awesome inventions related to transportation and vehicles"-Provided by publisher
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