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Author
Series
Marie Curious Girl Genius volume 1
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Young inventor Marie can't believe her luck - she's spending her summer holidays in California, at the high-tech headquarters of Vance Corps! She and the other super-clever campers get to build robots, do super-cool science experiments and test out awesome gadgets. But not everyone is a happy camper . . .
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
In a lively discussion with Lord Kelvin, inventor Phileas Fogg states his belief that it's possible for someone to travel around the globe in a mere 80 days. Kelvin challenges him to prove it, and adds a wager: if Fogg can't circumnavigate the globe in 80 days, he'll have to give up inventing forever. Fogg and his crew of two take the challenge. They travel by train, boat, balloon, horseback, or any other means at their disposal. However, Fogg and...
305) The Wright brothers
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
A biography of the brothers responsible for developing the first airplane, featuring excerpts from their journal entries, letters and drawings.
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Ben Franklin loved to swim and, at the age of eleven, he was determined to swim like a fish--fins and all. This ... account of young Ben's earliest invention follows the budding scientist's journey as he tests and retests his swim fins. That first big splash led Ben to even more innovations and inventions. Includes Franklin quotes, a timeline, bibliography, and source notes"--Amazon.com.
307) Dead reckoning
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
In 1867 Texas, Jett, a girl passing as a boy while seeking her long-lost twin brother, joins forces with Honoraria Gibbons, an inventor, and White Fox, a young Army scout, to investigate a zombie army that is terrorizing the West.
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
"When fourteen-year-old Irene Sauvelle moves with her family to Cape House on the coast of Normandy, she's immediately taken by the beauty of the place--its expansive cliffs, coasts, and harbors. There, she meets a local boy named Ismael, and the two soon fall in love. But a dark mystery is about to unfold, involving a reclusive toymaker who lives in a gigantic mansion filled with mechanical beings and shadows of the past"--
313) The treasure seekers
Series
Pub. Date
c[2000?]
Language
English
Description
The five motherless Bastable children struggle to save their inventor father from financial ruin.
Author
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
In the early twentieth century, five sisters and their widowed mother, a famed spiritualist, travel from New York to London, and as the Titanic conveys them and their acquaintances, journalist W.T. Stead, scientist Nikola Tesla, and industrialist John Jacob Astor. Tesla's inventions will either doom or save them all. Intermediate. Fiction.
Author
Series
Zigzag kids volume 3
Pub. Date
p2011
Language
English
Description
Flying feet: Charlie often thinks of inventions that seldom work, but his latest idea just might be able to help Jake the Sweeper get rid of a big pile of trash and save "Come as a Character" day, too.
Star time: Gina wants more than anything to be the star of the show that her class will perform, but everything seems to go wrong until she makes a generous choice.
316) Mothers of invention
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Provides a history of inventive women whose stories and creations have been overshadowed by the deeds of men in their industry.
317) How we got to now
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Join best-selling author Steven Johnson to hear extraordinary stories behind remarkable ideas that made modern life possible, the unsung heroes who brought them about, and the unexpected and bizarre consequences each of these innovations triggered.
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Tesla was an eccentric genius who out Edisoned Edison and out Marconied Marconi. Born of modest means in what is now Croatia and later becoming a naturalized American citizen, Tesla's inventions include the alternating current (AC) that powers our homes today, radio, wireless transmission, Xrays, and the electrifying Tesla coil. He even worked on development of direct energy weapons (death rays) and vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) aircraft. ...
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
A grand day out: Wallace & Gromit decide that the discerning cheese enthusiast should holiday on the moon. But when they land in their home-made rocket, they discover that a local inhabitant has other ideas.
The wrong trousers: When a sinister new lodger arrives in West Wallaby Street, Gromit is left out in the cold. The conniving penguin plans a daring diamond robbery using Wallace's Techno-Trousers and only Gromit can stop him!
A close shave:...
320) The thin man
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
The jaunty whodunit that made William Powell and Myrna Loy the champagne elite of sleuthung. Nick and Nora Charles combine screwball romance with mystery.
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