Wonderful Contraptions And Extraordinary Inventions

The craziest inventions and funniest machines from the pen of Heath Robinson

The craziest inventions and funniest machines from the pen of Heath Robinson

In this entertaining eBooklet, renowned deep thinkers Jimmy Russell and Jack Goldstein discuss the ten greatest inventions they believe humankind has ever seen, using their own unique perspectives on the world in which we live. The result is an entertaining read, and - being careful to distinguish between inventions and discoveries - many readers may be surprised at what appears on the list and what does not. Informative, fun and vaguely educational, this is a great title which will create debate and discussion.

Traces the origin or invention of 28 common, everyday items, such as shopping carts, jigsaw puzzles, frozen foods, zippers, safety pins, vacuum cleaners, and rubber bands.

'Top Tens' is a series tailored to fact-hungry, statistic-mad children with an obsession about a particular subject. The series takes readers through a wide range of high interest subjects and cross-curricular material from dangerous dinosaurs and ancient beasts to extreme machines and the maddest, craziest inventions in the world.

Presents a few of the weird and wonderful contraptions dreamed up by eager inventors over the last 200 years.