500 Fantastic Facts about Inventions (Micro Facts!)
by Anne Rooney (Author)
Did you know that traffic lights existed before the car was invented? Or that you blink less often when looking at a computer screen? Or that children's author Roald Dahl invented a life-saving medical device? Explore the weird and wonderful world of machines and technology with 500 fantastic facts presented in a highly visual style.
Packed full of jaw-dropping facts and incredible graphics, from lawn mowers to space shuttles, this handy book is the perfect guide to technology for readers aged 8+.
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Anne Rooney is an award-winning author who writes on science and the history of science for children and adults. Her Dinosaur Atlas was shortlisted for the Royal Young People's Book Award 2018 and won the School Library Association Information Book Award (ages 7-12), 2018. She has a degree and a PhD from Trinity College, Cambridge and has been a Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Newham College, Cambridge. Her books have been translated into 22 languages.
Violet Tobacco is an illustrator based in Atlanta, GA. She studied theater in college but gravitated toward other mediums of art before graduating. Always a storyteller with an affinity for whimsy, humor, and a well-delivered moral, she is most fond of illustration as a means of expression. She enjoys working with other creative individuals to build stories that help us better understand who we are.JNF061010 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Technology | Inventions
JNF051170 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Science & Nature | Discoveries
