Everyday Inventions

by Meredith Hooper

Looks at the backgrounds and persistent endeavors of the men who invented or perfected elevators, typewriters, safety razors and thirty other items, now considered commonplace

Genres: Nonfiction

128 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1975

About the author

Meredith Hooper uses the storybook form in Who Built the Pyramid? to make the latest research accessible for a young audience. Meredith Hooper is an historian by training and the author of many books, ranging in subject from Antarctica to aviation, from the history of water to the history of inventions.
Hooper, born in 1939, graduated in history from the University of Adelaide, then studied imperial history at Oxford.