How It Works. Book of Great Inventors and Their Creations

Imagine Publishing Ltd., 2015. — 164 p. — ISBN: 9781785460203.The How It Works Book of Great Inventors & Their Creations is a celebration of some of the people whose brilliant minds and perseverance have helped shape the modern world. They are by no means the only geniuses in history, nor are they the only great inventors. But the people whose biographies feature in this book are icons in the history of technology.Share the excitement and inspiration of history's greatest geniuses10 world changing inventions
The world hasn't been the same since these were inventedMeet the inventors
Discover how the world's greatest inventors created their innovationsExplore the inventions
Unearth archaic apparatus and understand how technological systems evolvedHistorical artefacts
Read select pages from inventors' journals, study notes, letters and diary entriesAlso inside
Archimedes
al-Jazar
Johannes Gutenberg
Leonardo da Vinci
Hans Lipperhey
Cornelius Drebbel
Benjamin Franklin
James Watt
Nicéphore Niépce
Richard Trevithick
Michael Faraday
Charles Babbage
Joseph Lister
Alfred Nobe Karl Benz
Thomas Edison
Alexander Graham Bell
George Eastman
Nikola Tesla
Auguste and Louis Lumière
Wilbur and Orville Wright
Guglielmo Marconi
Carl Bosch
Vladimir Zworykin
Juan de la Cierva
Wernher von Braun
Alan Turing
Gertrude Elion
Tim Berners-Lee