Inventions in 30 seconds. 30 ingenious ideas for innovative kids explained in half a minute. Discover fast-track facts and information about 30 inventions it's hard to imagine living without. Fascinating facts are delivered in energetic bite-sized morsels, while exciting mini-missions challenge you to find out more. With cool, and colorful explanatory artwork on every page, this is a fresh and fun guide to the world's most influential inventions.

Uses computer-generated images to explain how many devices and processes of modern technology work, covering such inventions as HDTV, game consoles, robot cars, helicopters, space probes, oil rigs, mass dampers, biometric id's, and tsunami alert syst

In the 1800's, London had such a sewage problem people called it the "Great Stink." New York City bought 100,000 tons of ice each year to cool its food. Flammable gaslights kept houses bright. But by the 1900's, flush toilets and updated sewers kept cities clean. Refrigeration replaced drippy iceboxes. And electric light bulbs lit the night. From the wheel to the Internet, humankind is constantly innovating easier and better ways to live. Read Essential...

When Lewis unveils his invention, the Memory Scanner, at the school science fair, things don't go as planned. A mysterious boy named Wilbur Robinson appears and whisks Lewis away in a time machin. The two travel to the future where Lewis meets the Robinsons, a family beyond his wildest imagination.

Griffin Bing and his friends are trying to locate Mr. Fielder's missing thirty million dollar lottery ticket, and thwart the local bully, Darren Vader, who wants to find it for himself--and Mr. Bing's latest invention may help.

An in-depth reference guide to technological developments that changed the world describes each invention and explores its place in history and how it influenced civilization, discussing inventions from the wheel to computers.

Describes the creation of a variety of toys and games, from seesaws to Silly Putty and toy soldiers to Trivial Pursuit.