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The Most Magnificent Thing (Most Magnificent, 1)
by (shelved 34 times as inventions)
avg rating 4.28 — 8,986 ratings — published 2014
Whoosh!: Lonnie Johnson's Super-Soaking Stream of Inventions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as inventions)
avg rating 4.24 — 2,293 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 — 2,245 ratings — published 2019
Mr. Ferris and His Wheel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as inventions)
avg rating 4.26 — 2,127 ratings — published 2014
Rosie Revere, Engineer (The Questioneers (Picture Books) #2)
by (shelved 17 times as inventions)
avg rating 4.46 — 12,998 ratings — published 2013
Pop!: The Invention of Bubble Gum (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as inventions)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,355 ratings — published 2010
Papa's Mechanical Fish (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as inventions)
avg rating 3.92 — 988 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 — 1,087 ratings — published
The Invention of Hugo Cabret (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as inventions)
avg rating 4.22 — 190,549 ratings — published 2007
Jabari Tries (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as inventions)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,055 ratings — published 2020
Six Dots: A Story of Young Louis Braille (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as inventions)
avg rating 4.29 — 2,108 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 — 630 ratings — published 2015
At Home: A Short History of Private Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as inventions)
avg rating 3.99 — 99,373 ratings — published 2010
Izzy Gizmo and the Invention Convention (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 9 times as inventions)
avg rating 4.09 — 212 ratings — published
Marvelous Mattie (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as inventions)
avg rating 4.08 — 437 ratings — published 2006
Girls Think of Everything: Stories of Ingenious Inventions by Women (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as inventions)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,386 ratings — published 2000
Now & Ben: The Modern Inventions of Benjamin Franklin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as inventions)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,177 ratings — published 2006
The Unstoppable Garrett Morgan: Inventor, Entrepreneur, Hero (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as inventions)
avg rating 4.33 — 219 ratings — published 2019
Magic Ramen: The Story of Momofuku Ando (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as inventions)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,522 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 — 507 ratings — published 2016
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as inventions)
avg rating 4.24 — 12,082 ratings — published 2009
Awesome Dawson (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as inventions)
avg rating 3.43 — 316 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 — 1,714 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 — 580 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 — 4,281 ratings — published 2017
Ticktock Banneker's Clock (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as inventions)
avg rating 4.01 — 152 ratings — published
The Wright Brothers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as inventions)
avg rating 4.18 — 99,818 ratings — published 2015
The Secret Subway (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as inventions)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,071 ratings — published 2016
It's Only Stanley (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as inventions)
avg rating 4.01 — 2,073 ratings — published 2015
The Extraordinary Mr. Qwerty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as inventions)
avg rating 3.29 — 207 ratings — published 2013
What Do You Do With an Idea? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as inventions)
avg rating 4.47 — 10,482 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 — 896 ratings — published 1991
Timeless Thomas: How Thomas Edison Changed Our Lives (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as inventions)
avg rating 4.01 — 319 ratings — published 2012
The Boy Who Invented TV: The Story of Philo Farnsworth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as inventions)
avg rating 3.90 — 592 ratings — published 2009
Erno Rubik and His Magic Cube (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as inventions)
avg rating 4.31 — 426 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 — 357 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 — 331 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 — 167 ratings — published 2019
Otis and Will Discover the Deep: The Record-Setting Dive of the Bathysphere (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as inventions)
avg rating 4.34 — 827 ratings — published 2018
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 — 288 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 — 1,016 ratings — published 2018
Doll-E 1.0 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as inventions)
avg rating 4.01 — 634 ratings — published 2018
Bertha Takes a Drive: How the Benz Automobile Changed the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as inventions)
avg rating 4.09 — 77 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 — 3,418 ratings — published 2011
Ada Byron Lovelace & the Thinking Machine (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as inventions)
avg rating 4.19 — 804 ratings — published 2015
“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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“ The weapon gave a rusty croak. ‘I don’t normally do weather reports anymore,’ the gun informed him politely.
‘Why is that?’
‘Ever since the demise of the old metropolis, there has been no control of the weather systems. Anyone who would have appreciated a weather forecast perished an awful long time ago. Besides, every time I started to inform my potential victims of the current cloud formations, or wind velocity, or barometric pressure, or potential precipitation, they simply ran away.”
― Our Blue Orange
‘Why is that?’
‘Ever since the demise of the old metropolis, there has been no control of the weather systems. Anyone who would have appreciated a weather forecast perished an awful long time ago. Besides, every time I started to inform my potential victims of the current cloud formations, or wind velocity, or barometric pressure, or potential precipitation, they simply ran away.”
― Our Blue Orange
