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The World's First Rollercoaster and Other Amazing Inventions

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextOriginal language: English Publication details: London Templar Books 2024Description: 93 p 28/21,5/0,6 cm PaperbackISBN:
  • 9781800783720
Other title:
  • Die erste Achterbahn der Welt und andere erstaunliche Erfindungen
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 600
Online resources: Summary: Did you know that bubblewrap started life as a new type of wallpaper that didn't catch on?! Or that Lonnie Johnson invented the Nerf Super Soaker while working on a NASA mission to Saturn? Blue Peter Award-winner Mike Barfield tells the fascinating true stories behind an amazing range of inventions and innovations. From bubblewrap to the barcode, from pizza to post-its, from trainers to the teddy bear! The story of each invention is told in a lively comic-strip format, and we meet the colourful cast of characters involved in these light-bulb moments which changed the world in big or tiny ways. An irresistible way into science and technology with a dash of history, from the brilliant Mike Barfield, author of A Day in the Life of a Poo, a Gnu and You which won the 2021 Blue Peter Award for a Book With Facts. Hast du eine zündende Idee? Dann finde heraus, wie du sie verwirklichen kannst! Eine ultrakomische und faktenreiche Fahrt!
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Did you know that bubblewrap started life as a new type of wallpaper that didn't catch on?! Or that Lonnie Johnson invented the Nerf Super Soaker while working on a NASA mission to Saturn?

Blue Peter Award-winner Mike Barfield tells the fascinating true stories behind an amazing range of inventions and innovations. From bubblewrap to the barcode, from pizza to post-its, from trainers to the teddy bear! The story of each invention is told in a lively comic-strip format, and we meet the colourful cast of characters involved in these light-bulb moments which changed the world in big or tiny ways.

An irresistible way into science and technology with a dash of history, from the brilliant Mike Barfield, author of A Day in the Life of a Poo, a Gnu and You which won the 2021 Blue Peter Award for a Book With Facts.

Hast du eine zündende Idee? Dann finde heraus, wie du sie verwirklichen kannst!

Eine ultrakomische und faktenreiche Fahrt!

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