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1,000 Inventions & Discoveries

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It is very easy to read, has plenty of illustrations/pictures. There is soooo much information in this book, I recommend it highly, even for adults.

I bought this book in order to learn where certain inventions and discoveries came from.

It starts out explaining stone tools (c 3,000,000 BC), the use of fire and continues on throughout time. It ends in 2001 with self-cleaning glass invention.

I had to laugh at the first walkman (do young people know what that is?) in 1979.

I was amazed at all the things we take for granted, when they were actually discovered, how and so forth. I recommend this book to anybody that is curious about when and what was invented/discovered.

Pictures & illustration makes this book more entertains to read although someone can suggest other encyclopedia that gives more information than this book, but for me, it doesn't matter how much or complete the information but how much information reader can get from this book... if you want more complete information you can go further with multi-volume encyclopedia like Britannica or simply using internet to google many information regarding any great invention and discoveries in human kinds. (eg Wikipedia, etc)

IMHO, this book is suitable for any level, adults or children, but may be the content is only for leisure reading, not for complete & formal educational purposes, it may wrong to state this book have a complete reference about human inventions but for me it contains 'enough inventions' to be known by us.

Lastly, I really enjoyed reading this book. Just my 2 cent :)
p/s: sorry for any bad English as it is not my mother tongue.

Many nice pictures but the title of this book may have reflected its contents better if it had been '1000 Inventions and Discoveries from mainly Europe, China, Egypt and the Middle East'. Although it mentions discoveries from 3,000,000 BC, there is practically no mention of any significant discovery from India. The thousands of potential readers of Indian origin and those who know about the great discoveries India has contributed to the world may not appreciate such an 'oversight'. ...