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The Most Magnificent Thing (Most Magnificent, 1)
by (shelved 34 times as inventions)
avg rating 4.28 — 8,923 ratings — published 2014
Whoosh!: Lonnie Johnson's Super-Soaking Stream of Inventions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as inventions)
avg rating 4.24 — 2,289 ratings — published 2016
The Crayon Man: the True Story of the Invention of Crayola Crayons (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as inventions)
avg rating 4.37 — 2,218 ratings — published 2019
Mr. Ferris and His Wheel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as inventions)
avg rating 4.25 — 2,122 ratings — published 2014
Rosie Revere, Engineer: A Picture Book (The Questioneers)
by (shelved 17 times as inventions)
avg rating 4.46 — 12,942 ratings — published 2013
Pop!: The Invention of Bubble Gum (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as inventions)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,352 ratings — published 2010
Papa's Mechanical Fish (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as inventions)
avg rating 3.92 — 987 ratings — published 2013
The Boo-Boos That Changed the World: A True Story about an Accidental Invention (Really!)
by (shelved 15 times as inventions)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,084 ratings — published
The Invention of Hugo Cabret (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as inventions)
avg rating 4.22 — 190,050 ratings — published 2007
Jabari Tries (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as inventions)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,042 ratings — published 2020
Six Dots: A Story of Young Louis Braille (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as inventions)
avg rating 4.29 — 2,098 ratings — published 2016
Cleonardo, The Little Inventor (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as inventions)
avg rating 3.65 — 314 ratings — published 2016
Ben Franklin's Big Splash: The Mostly True Story of His First Invention (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as inventions)
avg rating 3.93 — 482 ratings — published
Earmuffs for Everyone!: How Chester Greenwood Became Known as the Inventor of Earmuffs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as inventions)
avg rating 3.59 — 628 ratings — published 2015
At Home: A Short History of Private Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as inventions)
avg rating 3.99 — 98,951 ratings — published 2010
Izzy Gizmo and the Invention Convention (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 9 times as inventions)
avg rating 4.08 — 214 ratings — published
Marvelous Mattie (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as inventions)
avg rating 4.07 — 438 ratings — published 2006
Girls Think of Everything: Stories of Ingenious Inventions by Women (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as inventions)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,378 ratings — published 2000
Now & Ben: The Modern Inventions of Benjamin Franklin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as inventions)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,173 ratings — published 2006
The Unstoppable Garrett Morgan: Inventor, Entrepreneur, Hero (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as inventions)
avg rating 4.33 — 214 ratings — published 2019
Magic Ramen: The Story of Momofuku Ando (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as inventions)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,516 ratings — published 2019
The Marvelous Thing That Came from a Spring: The Accidental Invention of the Toy That Swept the Nation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as inventions)
avg rating 4.05 — 505 ratings — published 2016
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as inventions)
avg rating 4.24 — 11,894 ratings — published 2009
Awesome Dawson (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as inventions)
avg rating 3.43 — 315 ratings — published 2013
The Day-Glo Brothers: The True Story of Bob and Joe Switzer's Bright Ideas and Brand-New Colors (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as inventions)
avg rating 3.95 — 1,710 ratings — published 2009
Sweet Dreams, Sarah: From Slavery to Inventor (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as inventions)
avg rating 4.42 — 323 ratings — published 2019
How to Build a Hug: Temple Grandin and Her Amazing Squeeze Machine (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as inventions)
avg rating 4.27 — 574 ratings — published 2018
Izzy Gizmo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as inventions)
avg rating 4.22 — 699 ratings — published 2017
Fifty Inventions That Shaped the Modern Economy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as inventions)
avg rating 4.06 — 4,250 ratings — published 2017
Ticktock Banneker's Clock (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as inventions)
avg rating 4.00 — 149 ratings — published
The Wright Brothers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as inventions)
avg rating 4.18 — 99,258 ratings — published 2015
The Secret Subway (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as inventions)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,072 ratings — published 2016
It's Only Stanley (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as inventions)
avg rating 4.01 — 2,065 ratings — published 2015
The Extraordinary Mr. Qwerty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as inventions)
avg rating 3.28 — 208 ratings — published 2013
What Do You Do With an Idea? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as inventions)
avg rating 4.47 — 10,424 ratings — published 2014
Mistakes That Worked: 40 Familiar Inventions & How They Came to Be (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as inventions)
avg rating 4.06 — 891 ratings — published 1991
Timeless Thomas: How Thomas Edison Changed Our Lives (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as inventions)
avg rating 4.01 — 315 ratings — published 2012
The Boy Who Invented TV: The Story of Philo Farnsworth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as inventions)
avg rating 3.90 — 591 ratings — published 2009
Erno Rubik and His Magic Cube (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as inventions)
avg rating 4.32 — 407 ratings — published 2024
Blips on a Screen: How Ralph Baer Invented TV Video Gaming and Launched a Worldwide Obsession (Library Binding)
by (shelved 5 times as inventions)
avg rating 3.95 — 355 ratings — published
The Boy Who Invented the Popsicle: The Cool Science Behind Frank Epperson's Famous Frozen Treat (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as inventions)
avg rating 4.17 — 330 ratings — published 2014
Samuel Morse, That's Who!: The Story of the Telegraph and Morse Code (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as inventions)
avg rating 3.87 — 165 ratings — published 2019
Guitar Genius: How Les Paul Engineered the Solid-Body Electric Guitar and Rocked the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as inventions)
avg rating 4.38 — 260 ratings — published
Melia and Jo: A Picture Book About Friendship, the Arts, and the Magic of STEAM for Children (Ages 4-7)
by (shelved 5 times as inventions)
avg rating 3.76 — 287 ratings — published
Pass Go and Collect $200: The Real Story of How Monopoly Was Invented (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as inventions)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,012 ratings — published 2018
Doll-E 1.0 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as inventions)
avg rating 4.00 — 630 ratings — published 2018
Bertha Takes a Drive: How the Benz Automobile Changed the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as inventions)
avg rating 4.08 — 76 ratings — published
Hedy's Folly: The Life and Breakthrough Inventions of Hedy Lamarr, the Most Beautiful Woman in the World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as inventions)
avg rating 3.18 — 3,405 ratings — published 2011
Ada Byron Lovelace & the Thinking Machine (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as inventions)
avg rating 4.19 — 802 ratings — published 2015
The Fantastic Ferris Wheel: The Story of Inventor George Ferris (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as inventions)
avg rating 4.07 — 198 ratings — published 2015
“It is India that gave us the ingenious method of expressing all numbers by means of ten symbols, each symbol receiving a value of position as well as an absolute value; a profound and important idea which appears so simple to us now that we ignore its true merit. But its very simplicity and the great ease which it has lent to computations put our arithmetic in the first rank of useful inventions; and we shall appreciate the grandeur of the achievement the more when we remember that it escaped the genius of Archimedes and Apollonius, two of the greatest men produced by antiquity.”
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“That new technologies and techniques would be forthcoming was a fundamental article of Christian faith. Hence, no bishops or theologians denounced clocks or sailing ships--although both were condemned on religious grounds in various non-Western societies. ”
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