Best Inventions In History - April 2024

Black Pioneers of Science and Invention

A readable, perceptive account of the lives of fourteen gifted innovators who have played important roles in scientific and industrial progress. The achievements of Benjamin Banneker, Granville T. Woods, George Washington Carver, and others have made jobs easier, saved countless lives, and in many cases, altered the course of history.      Includes a bibliography and an index.

• ASIN: 0152085661
• ASIN: 0152085661
• ISBN: 9780152085667
• Brand: HMH Books for Young Readers
• Manufacturer: Hmh Books for Young Readers

Mistakes That Worked: 40 Familiar Inventions & How They Came to Be

Popsicles, potato chips, Silly Putty, Velcro, and many other familiar things have fascinating stories behind them. In fact, dozens of products and everyday items had surprisingly haphazard beginnings. Mistakes That Worked offers forty of these unusual tales, along with hilarious cartoons and weird and amazing facts. Readers will be surprised and inspired!

• ASIN: 0385320434
• ASIN: 0385320434
• ISBN: 9780385320436
• Brand: Doubleday Books for Young Readers
• Manufacturer: Delacorte Books for Young Readers

An Illustrated Timeline of Inventions and Inventors (Visual Timelines in History)

Who invented what, and when did they do it? From the ancient Egyptians to Thomas Edison, from the telephone to the space shuttle, this book length timeline is packed with inventions and inventors. Pick a point and start exploring!

• ASIN: 1404870172
• ASIN: 1404870172
• ISBN: 1404870172
• Manufacturer: Picture Window Books

Girls Think of Everything: Stories of Ingenious Inventions by Women

In kitchens and living rooms, in garages and labs and basements, even in converted chicken coops, women and girls have invented ingenious innovations that have made our lives simpler and better. Their creations are some of the most enduring (the windshield wiper) and best loved (the chocolate chip cookie). What inspired these women, and just how did they turn their ideas into realities? Features women inventors Ruth Wakefield, Mary Anderson, Stephanie Kwolek, Bette Nesmith Graham, Patsy O. Sherman, Ann Moore, Grace Murray Hopper, Margaret E. Knight, Jeanne Lee Crews, and Valerie L. Thomas, as ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0618195637
• UPC: 046442195638
• ASIN: 0618195637
• ISBN: 0618195637
• Brand: Sandpiper
• Manufacturer: HMH Books for Young Readers

Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the World

It’s a scientific fact: Women rock!  A charmingly illustrated and educational book, New York Times best seller Women in Science highlights the contributions of fifty notable women to the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) from the ancient to the modern world. Full of striking, singular art, this fascinating collection also contains infographics about relevant topics such as lab equipment, rates of women currently working in STEM fields, and an illustrated scientific glossary. The trailblazing women profiled include well-known figures like primatologist Jane ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1607749769
• ASIN: 1607749769
• ISBN: 1607749769
• Brand: Ten Speed Press
• Manufacturer: Ten Speed Press

1001 Inventions and Awesome Facts from Muslim Civilization: Official Children's Companion to the 1001 Inventions Exhibition (National Geographic Kids)

We often think that people from a thousand years ago were living in the Dark Ages. But from the 7th century onward in Muslim civilization there were amazing advances and inventions that still influence our everyday lives. People living in the Muslim world saw what the Egyptians, Chinese, Indians, Greek, and Romans had discovered and spent the next one thousand years adding new developments and ideas. Inventors created marvels like the elephant water clock, explorers drew detailed maps of the world, women made scientific breakthroughs and founded universities, architects built huge domes larger... [Read More]

• ASIN: 142631258X
• ASIN: 142631258X
• ISBN: 9781426312588
• Brand: imusti
• Manufacturer: National Geographic Children's Books

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• ASIN: B016AO3I7G
• ASIN: B016AO3I7G

The Invention of 'Folk Music' and 'Art Music': Emerging Categories from Ossian to Wagner (New Perspectives in Music History and Criticism)

We tend to take for granted the labels we put to different forms of music. This study considers the origins and implications of the way in which we categorize music. Whereas earlier ways of classifying music were based on its different functions, for the past two hundred years we have been obsessed with creativity and musical origins, and classify music along these lines. Matthew Gelbart argues that folk music and art music became meaningful concepts only in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, and only in relation to each other. He examines how cultural nationalism served as th... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0521178347
• ASIN: 0521178347
• ISBN: 0521178347
• Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press

The Mathematician's Mind

Fifty years ago when Jacques Hadamard set out to explore how mathematicians invent new ideas, he considered the creative experiences of some of the greatest thinkers of his generation, such as George Polya, Claude Lévi-Strauss, and Albert Einstein. It appeared that inspiration could strike anytime, particularly after an individual had worked hard on a problem for days and then turned attention to another activity. In exploring this phenomenon, Hadamard produced one of the most famous and cogent cases for the existence of unconscious mental processes in mathematical invention and other forms o... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0691029318
• ASIN: 0691029318
• ISBN: 0691029318
• Brand: Princeton University Press
• Manufacturer: Princeton University Press

The Invention of Free Labor: The Employment Relation in English and American Law and Culture, 1350-1870 (Studies in Legal History)

Examining the emergence of the modern conception of free labor--labor that could not be legally compelled, even though voluntarily agreed upon--Steinfeld explains how English law dominated the early American colonies, making violation of al labor agreements punishable by imprisonment. By the eighteenth century, traditional legal restrictions no longer applied to many kinds of colonial workers, but it was not until the nineteenth century that indentured servitude came to be regarded as similar to slavery.

• ASIN: 0807854522
• ASIN: 0807854522
• ISBN: 0807854522
• Brand: Brand: The University of North Carolina Press
• Manufacturer: The University of North Carolina Press

1001 Inventions: The Enduring Legacy of Muslim Civilization: Official Companion to the 1001 Inventions Exhibition

1001 Inventions: The Enduring Legacy of Muslim Civilization takes readers on a journey through years of forgotten Islamic history to discover one thousand fascinating scientific and technological inventions still being used throughout the world today. Take a look at all of the discoveries that led to the great technological advances of our time; engineering, early medicinal practices, and the origins of cartography are just a few of the areas explored in this book. 1001 Inventions provides unique insight into a significant time period in Muslim history that has been looked over by much of the... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1426209347
• ASIN: 1426209347
• ISBN: 9781426209345
• Brand: National Geographic Society
• Manufacturer: National Geographic

That's Not in My American History Book: A Compilation of Little-Known Events and Forgotten Heroes

History classes reduce America's story into a dry litany of dates, names, and places. That's Not in My American History Book tackles the messy details, reclaims disregarded heroes, and sets the record straight. This book explains why July 4th isn't really Independence Day, reveals 19th century mudslinging that labels Andrew Jackson a "murderer," and even unveils the only vice president with a number-one pop hit. With insight, wit, and irreverence, Ayres uncovers our overlooked past.

• ASIN: 158979107X
• ASIN: 158979107X
• ISBN: 158979107X
• Manufacturer: Taylor Trade Publishing

Girls Think of Everything: Stories of Ingenious Inventions by Women

This updated edition of the bestselling Girls Think of Everything, by Sibert-winner Catherine Thimmesh and Caldecott Honor winner Melissa Sweet, retains all the integrity of the original but includes expanded coverage of inventions (and inventors) to better reflect our diverse and technological world. In kitchens and living rooms, in garages and labs and basements, even in converted chicken coops, women and girls have invented ingenious innovations that have made our lives simpler and better. What inspired these girls, and just how did they turn their ideas into realities?      Retaining r... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1328772535
• ASIN: 1328772535
• ISBN: 1328772535
• Brand: HMH Books for Young Readers
• Manufacturer: HMH Books for Young Readers

Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

In this authoritative and eye-opening book, Max Tegmark describes and illuminates the recent, path-breaking advances in Artificial Intelligence and how it is poised to overtake human intelligence. How will AI affect crime, war, justice, jobs, society and our very sense of being human? The rise of AI has the potential to transform our future more than any other technology—and there’s nobody better qualified or situated to explore that future than Max Tegmark, an MIT professor who’s helped mainstream research on how to keep AI beneficial.   How can we grow our prosperity through automati... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1101970316
• ASIN: 1101970316
• ISBN: 1101970316
• Manufacturer: Vintage

The Invention of Lying

Invention of Lying, The (DVD)Ricky Gervais writes, directs and stars in this inspired conceptualcomedy set in a world in which lying -- even the concept of a lie --does not even exist.Everyone -- from politicians to car salesmen -- speaks the truth andnothing but, with no thought of the consequences. But when adown-on-his-luck loser named Mark (Gervais) suddenly develops theability to lie, he finds that dishonesty has its rewards. In a worldwhere every word is assumed to be the absolute truth, Mark easily lieshis way to fame and fortune. But lies have a way of spreading, and Markbegins to real... [Read More]

• ASIN: B00275EHBY
• UPC: 883929047871
• ASIN: B00275EHBY
• Brand: Warner Manufacturing
• Manufacturer: Warner Home Video

Practical Pointers for Patentees, Containing Valuable Information and Advice on the Sale of Patents; An Elucidation of the Best Methods Employed by the Most Successful Inventors in Handling Their Inventions

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• UPC: 387917638

The Guide to Wealth, Or, How to Get Rich : Containing Rare and Valuable Secrets, Money-Making Inventions, and Practical Recipes: With Full Instructions for Manufacturing and Preparing Some of the Best Selling Articles of the Day

The Guide to Wealth, Or, How to Get

• UPC: 239634450

Practical Pointers for Patentees, Containing Valuable Information and Advice on the Sale of Patents : An Elucidation of the Best Methods Employed by the Most Successful Inventors in Handling Their Inventions

Practical Pointers for Patentees, Containing Valuable Information and Advice on the Sale of Patents: An Elucidation of the Best Methods Employed by th Height : 0.34 In Length : 9.69 In Width : 7.44 In

• UPC: 740268022

The Angler's Desideratum : Containing the Best and Fullest Directions for Dressing the Artificial Fly ... with Some New and Valuable Inventions

The Angler's Desideratum: Containing The Best And Fullest Directions For Dressing The Artificial Fly ... With Some New And Valuable

• UPC: 979408963

The Angler's Desideratum : Containing the Best and Fullest Directions for Dressing the Artificial Fly ... with Some New and Valuable Inventions

The Angler's Desideratum: Containing the Best and Fullest Directions for Dressing the Artificial Fly ... with Some New and Valuable

• UPC: 454663632

The Angler's Desideratum : Containing the Best and Fullest Directions for Dressing the Artificial Fly ... with Some New and Valuable Inventions

The Angler's Desideratum: Containing the Best and Fullest Directions for Dressing the Artificial Fly ... with Some New and Valuable

• UPC: 317410156

Flying Colours!: Best Sellers in Adult Colouring Books with Stress Relieving

• UPC: 193373501077
• Category: Nonfiction
• Price: 19 USD