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By: Dylan Thuras, Jennifer Swanson | Illustrator: Ruby Fresson
The team behind the bestselling Atlas Obscura presents a kids illustrated?STEM-oriented exploration of the worlds most interesting technologies, inventions, and scientific discoveries.
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Following up on the New York Times bestselling Atlas Obscura Explorer's Guide for the World's Most Adventurous Kid, with more than 200,000 copies in print, here is a globe-spanning history of invention like no other. This illustrated and STEM-oriented exploration of the planets 94 most interesting inventions and scientific discoveries sends middle-grade readers on an unforgettable trip around the planet and across time.
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Each spread focuses on a world-changing technology and how it led to or influenced the tech or discovery on the next page. Starting with the very first invention, fire, readers will spelunk the Wonderwerk Cave in South Africa for evidence of humankinds earliest control of flames, then learn how fire is necessary to create another essential tech: glass, including the modern-day glass bridge in Zhangjiajie, China, that offers a crystal-clear (and terrifying!) view of the chasm 1,300 feet below.
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As you gaze at comets through telescopes, create unbreakable codes, zap space garbage with lasers, and break supersonic records in the worlds fastest car, gorgeously illustrated scenes will transport readers across continents and centuries into a world of wonder and discovery.
The team behind the bestselling Atlas Obscura presents a kids illustrated?STEM-oriented exploration of the worlds most interesting technologies, inventions, and scientific discoveries.
?
Following up on the New York Times bestselling Atlas Obscura Explorer's Guide for the World's Most Adventurous Kid, with more than 200,000 copies in print, here is a globe-spanning history of invention like no other. This illustrated and STEM-oriented exploration of the planets 94 most interesting inventions and scientific discoveries sends middle-grade readers on an unforgettable trip around the planet and across time.
?
Each spread focuses on a world-changing technology and how it led to or influenced the tech or discovery on the next page. Starting with the very first invention, fire, readers will spelunk the Wonderwerk Cave in South Africa for evidence of humankinds earliest control of flames, then learn how fire is necessary to create another essential tech: glass, including the modern-day glass bridge in Zhangjiajie, China, that offers a crystal-clear (and terrifying!) view of the chasm 1,300 feet below.
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As you gaze at comets through telescopes, create unbreakable codes, zap space garbage with lasers, and break supersonic records in the worlds fastest car, gorgeously illustrated scenes will transport readers across continents and centuries into a world of wonder and discovery.
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