Inventions. How they came up with a smiley, google and helicopter

Have you used a ballpoint pen, Wi-Fi network today, any computer program or search engine? Do your children have disposable diapers, Barbie dolls and Lego designer?

If you answered "yes" to any of these questions, then answer one more: do you know who is behind all these small and great inventions?

Behind every invention - whether it is a balloon or helicopter, Barbie doll or the game "Monopoly", wind generator or Wi -Fi - are the stories of real people, men and women, daredevils who have changed the lives of billions of the planet. This encyclopedia describes the identities of 30 inventors from the XI century to the present day. You will learn about our ancestors and contemporaries who were able to make a breakthrough in science, technology and culture and made the world the way we see it today ..

For whom this book
For children from 8 years old.

For future inventors.

For secondary school age