Great Inventors and Inventions (Dover Coloring Book) |  | Author: Bruce LaFontaine
Publisher: Dover Publications
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Media: Paperback
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Pages: 48
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Dimensions (in): 10.7 x 8 x 0.2
ISBN: 0486297845
Dewey Decimal Number: 371
EAN: 9780486297842
ASIN: 0486297845
Publication Date: July 10, 1997
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Product Description
Forty-five finely detailed, ready-to-color drawings portray inventors and their historically important devices in an informative survey of advances in science and industry. Illustrations include Cousteauâs aqua lung, Morseâs telegraph, Gutenbergâs printing press, Fordâs assembly line, many others. Captions provide background information.
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On Alfred Nobel June 7, 2006
M Shepard (Sweden)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
The Dover Publications for children are all very nice. This publication is no exception. But it also serves as a reminder that everything in print is not necessarily true--or may have some innacuracies. Parents should teach their children to look up multiple sources for information.
In this book, the entry on Alfred Nobel, for example, states that he created the Nobel prizes in 1901, including a prize in economics. As small an error as this may seem to be, it is actually a monumental mistake. The Sveriges Riksbank (Bank of Sweden) Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel was created in 1968 much to the dismay of the majority of Swedes and certainly to the Nobel family. It is not one of the Nobel prizes, but remains, even today a price in "Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel." Nobel himself would have been disappointed in its creation.
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