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Jump!, Inc.
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
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Most things that you own were invented by someone. From bicycles to computers, they all started as just a tiny idea in someone else's mind. Learn about how many everyday objects were invented and who created them. It's time to dive into the world of inventors and inventions!
Inventors and Inventions is part of Decodables by Jump!, a comprehensive library of decodable leveled readers that follow a sequenced approach to phonics instruction. Young...
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Silver, Burdett, and Company
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
From the PREFACE:
"A school history should set forth such facts, and in such an order, as to show the progress of civilization. The great lessons of history are found in that line of events in the past which exhibits the progress of mankind—the uplift of humanity. The record of no other country can present a more startling array of forward movements and upward tendencies than that of our own land, and in no one direction does this upward movement...
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McGraw-Hill Education
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
A Fully-Updated, No-Nonsense Guide to Electronics Advance your electronics knowledge and gain the skills necessary to develop and construct your own functioning gadgets. Written by a pair of experienced engineers and dedicated hobbyists, Practical Electronics for Inventors, Fourth Edition, lays out the essentials and provides step-by-step instructions, schematics, and illustrations. Discover how to select the right components, design and build circuits,...
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Britannica Educational Publishing
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
"The ingenuity evidenced during the Renaissance was not just limited to the fine arts. A number of scientists and inventors also made astonishing breakthroughs in astronomy, medicine, physics, and more. Readers examine the scientific revolution, profiling Isaac Newton, Nicolaus Copernicus, Galileo, and many other great thinkers who transformed the scientific and mechanical worlds."--
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Britannica Educational Publishing
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
"If necessity is indeed the mother of invention, then the individuals profiled in this volume should be considered the most laudable of all midwives. They each saw a need and met it. Readers will learn more about the lives and methodologies of well-known inventors such as Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Edison, and become familiar with several more whose creations have sometimes outstripped their personal fame."--
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Pub. Date
2022
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English
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Moving, funny, and totally true childhood biographies of Bill Gates, Madam C. J. Walker, Hedy Lamarr, Walt Disney, and 12 other international innovators.
Throughout history people have experimented, invented, and created new ways of doing things. Kid Innovators tells the stories of a diverse group of brilliant thinkers in fields like technology, education, business, science, art, and entertainment, reminding us that every innovator...
Throughout history people have experimented, invented, and created new ways of doing things. Kid Innovators tells the stories of a diverse group of brilliant thinkers in fields like technology, education, business, science, art, and entertainment, reminding us that every innovator...
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Publisher
McGraw-Hill Education
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
In this TAB book, bestselling electronics author Simon Monk shows maker-entrepreneurs how to use Fritzing's open-source software and services to create electronics prototypes, design and manufacture printed circuit boards (PCBs), and bring professional-quality electronic products to market. Fritzing for Inventors: Take Your Electronics Project from Prototype to Product explains how to use this set of free, open-source electronics prototyping tools...
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Pub. Date
2022
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English
Description
Inventions and the technologies they produced have, over the millennia, shaped our civilizations and transformed life on this planet. Invention is a world always on the move, ever reaching out, never static. Each new generation brings its own innovative thinkers whose creativity may be embedded in their DNA, or evolved through their upbringing or education. Inquiring minds are a requisite for most inventors. They are often keen observers of life and...
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Publisher
McGraw-Hill Education
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
As featured on The Today Show The definitive guide for aspiring product entrepreneurs - packed with important new resources Written specifically for people seeking to turn their ideas into marketable products, this new edition of The Mom Inventors Handbook takes you step by step through the process, covering the latest, most innovative ways to create, fund, manufacture, and successfully sell products on a wide scale. A great deal has changed...
12) Animalia
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Coco Studios
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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On an icy peninsula in Norway, there is a school where select students from around the world are taught the secrets of the Victorian-era world. The school's programs are: Apothecary - for pharmacists Warbringer - for warriors Machinist - for inventors Artisan - for artists Animalia - for animalists Thirteen-year-old Sunday Grae wants to follow in her late father's footsteps and become Animalia - the way of working with animals' unique abilities that...
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