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Series
Pub. Date
[2014], c2013
Language
English
Description
In episode three, the team explores how nothing shrunk the globe more than our extraordinary ability to talk to one another across the oceans and continents. They reveal the fascinating chain of events that made such everyday miracles possible by telling the story of the extraordinary inventors who harnessed electricity and electromagnetism. Their brilliance led to three transformative inventions: the electric telegraph, the telephone, and wireless...
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"The United States is in the grip of a crisis of bad history. Inaccurate interpretations and outright misrepresentations of the past-cultivated within and promoted by the conservative movement and right-wing media over the last several decades-hold sway among large numbers of Americans, damaging our public discourse. In Myth America, historians Kevin Kruse and Julian Zelizer have assembled an all-star team of historians to provide textured analysis...
4) Inventions
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
INsiders brings inventions to life, with the most up-to-date information and state-of-the-art 3-D illustrations that practically leap off every page, stimulating minds and imaginations in a whole new way.
13) Invention
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Photographs and text explore such inventions as the wheel, gears, levers, clocks, telephones, and rocket engines.
Author
Series
Invention hunters volume 3
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
When the Invention Hunters, a group of globe-trotting invention collectors, visit a school in their flying museum, a student helps them by explaining how common concepts related to light, like refraction, magnification, and reflection, and objects, like cameras and televisions, work.
16) On the reef
Author
Series
Andrew lost volume 7
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
After escaping from the belly of a whale, Andrew and his cousin Judy face more dangers from their underwater nemesis, Soggy Bob, in the Great Barrier Reef.
Author
Series
Creature Department novels volume 1
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"Elliot Von Doppler and his friend Leslie think nothing ever happens in Bickleburgh, except inside the gleaming headquarters of DENKi-3000--the world's eighth-largest electronics factory. When Uncle Archie vanishes, it's up to Elliot, Leslie, and every one of the unusual 'employees' to create an invention so astonishing it will save the Creature Department"--
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Full of weird and wacky facts and retro-inspired illustrations, Amazing Inventions is the perfect, fun introduction to everything from robots to nanoscience. Prepare to laugh, marvel, and learn. Did you know that the ancient Egyptians may have used kites to help build their pyramids? That robots have a hard time learning karate? Or that Australian nanoscientists have manufactured a garment that you can clean by just holding it up to the light? Covering...
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Jimmy Neutron rescues Agent X from the clutches of evil Professor Calamitous, and together they battle the Professor and his evil daughter, Beautiful Gorgeous.
BTSO, Big Top Secret Organization, has summoned Jimmy to rescue Agent X from the clutches of the evil Professor Calamitous. When Jimmy catches up with him, he finds that the agent is none other than film star/real-life secret agent Jet Fusion. Jimmy and Jet join forces to fight the Professor...
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