| Description |
6 unnumbered pages, 138 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, portraits ; 26 cm |
| Contents |
The wheelbarrow--Nails--The yard and the metre--Locks and keys--Forks--Spectacles--False teeth--Lightning conductors--Umbrellas--Rubber--Chewing-gum--The safety razor--The shearing machine--Corrugated iron--Barbed wire--Cement and concrete--Lifts--Skyscrapers--Dynamite--The vacuum cleaner--Pasteurized milk--Canned food--Frozen food--DDT--Penicillin--Coca-cola--Corn flakes--The sewing machine--Paper patterns--The zipper--The typewriter--Ball-Point pen--The Christmas card |
| Summary |
SUMMARY: The story of how many everyday objects we use to protect, clean, clothe, feed, transport, cure and destroy ourselves were invented or discovered |
| Analysis |
Inventions, to 1971 Juvenile literature |
| Notes |
Ill. on lining papers |
|
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Index |
| Audience |
For middle Primary children upwards |
| Subject |
Agricultural innovations -- Juvenile literature.
|
|
Inventions -- Juvenile literature.
|
|
Inventions.
|
|
Medical innovations -- Juvenile literature.
|
|
Technological innovations -- Juvenile literature.
|
|
Inventions.
|
| Author |
Wade, Graham, 1931-2009.
|
| LC no. |
72197869 |
| ISBN |
0207122598 |
|
