Blunder Or Brainstorm: Fact and Fiction of Famous Inventors and Inventions
- ISBN-10
- 1931334919
- ISBN-13
- 9781931334914
- Category
- Inventors
- Pages
- 80
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2006
- Publisher
- Pieces of Learning
- Author
- Nancy Polette
Description
Toilets, toasters & telephones: the how and why of everyday objects by Su- san Goldman Rubin. Harcourt, 1998. What does it do?: inventions then and now by Daniel Jacobs. Heinemann Library, 1990.
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