Adventures of inventions

Any invention begins with experience, life and scientific: the discoverer must know what was done earlier, as the mechanisms changed over time, which remained undisclosure and unexplored. In his book, writer Alexander Ivich turns to the most important discoveries in the history of mankind - from writing and missiles to a bicycle. It would seem that it is a bicycle compared to a spaceship? But the author, on the example of various discoveries, shows that there are no unimportant inventions, and future scientists still have a lot of work ahead.
The book of Alexander Ivich was written in 1930 and since then withstood many additions and reprints. The artist Ekaterina Sklyarova created a new series of illustrations for these fascinating popular science stories