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Amazing Inventions

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Odd Science: Amazing Inventions is filled with weird and wacky facts that you've never heard before. Read about the trainers made of spider silk, wonder at the first record played in space and tell your friends about the robot built in 1937.

Prepare to laugh, marvel and learn.

Inventions aren't always easy. Sometimes a humble leaf can get in the way. Developers have learned that one of the big hold ups in the creation of self-driving cars is teaching the cars to recognize changes in foliage as they drive the same routes each day.

Scientists have developed a flexible medical sensor using electrodes and regular chewing gum.

Odd Science: Amazing Inventions is filled with weird and wacky facts that you've never heard before. Read about the trainers made of spider silk, wonder at the first record played in space and tell your friends about the robot built in 1937.

There are facts about electricity being used as glue, facts about glow-in-the-dark cats and facts about nano-robots that can 'swim' inside the body during biopsies!

James Olstein beautifully illustrates these odd facts, and more, in a retro-inspired, quirky style. His designs aren't meant to be taken literally, but you'll laugh-out-load when you see a walking trashcan and wind towers made of carrots!

Prepare to laugh, marvel and learn.

Being a geek has never been so cool.

About This Edition

ISBN: 9781843653738
Publication date: 6th September 2018
Author: James Olstein
Publisher: Pavilion Children's Books an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Format: Hardback
Pagination: 79 pages
Series: Odd Science
Genres: Computers and the Digital World
Educational: Electronics
Children’s / Teenage general interest: Inventors, inventions and experiments
Children’s / Teenage general interest: Machines and how things work
Children’s / Teenage general interest: Humour and jokes
General Knowledge & Trivia