With a crisp, modern design, these highly visual titles encourage children to understand the technology around them, and the historical impact inventions had on the world. Packed with photographs, clear text and amazing facts about failed ideas, reluctant readers will be engaged and entertained. Features inventor profiles, timelines of the development of important inventions, up-to-date text and photography, fascinating facts, written and checked by experts, a clear, modern design, and contents, glossary, and index.