Great Inventions: The Illustrated Science Encyclopedia
- ISBN-10
- 0613893999
- ISBN-13
- 9780613893992
- Series
- Great Inventions
- Category
- Juvenile Nonfiction
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2001-04-01
- Publisher
- Turtleback
- Authors
- Peter Harrison, Chris Oxlade, Stephen Bennington
Description
Provides information on the development of various technical advances, simple machines and how they work, and the principles and techniques of photography and the computer, and suggests related activities.
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