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Inventions That Changed the World
By Tomecek, Steve & Stuckenschneider, Dan
- ISBN
- 978-0-59068-144-5
- Publisher
- New York : Scholastic Nonfiction, 2003.
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Reviewed on April 1, 2003
Gr 5-9 Rather than presenting a "how it works" compendium or a series of mini-biographies, Tomecek puts significant inventions and discoveries in a historical context. Dividing the text into five broad time periods, he offers a series of essays on important advances that occurred in each "age." For example, the Metal Age (3500 B.C.-A.D. 1) includes discussions of measurement, money, irrigation, waterwheels, and maps. Each two-page explanation prov...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
