Books for children -- The Smithsonian Visual Timeline of Inventions by Richard Platt
Childhood Education, Summer 1995 by Keenan, Joan S
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THE SMITHSONIAN VISUAL TIMELINE OF INVENTIONS. Il. withphotographs. ISBN1-56458-6758. New York: Dorling Kindersley, 1994. 64pp. $16.95. This oversize, profusely illustrated book should be perused slowly over time. It is arranged chronologically, starting at 600,000 B.C., in five large sections: first inventions, printing and dissemination of ideas, steam power and the industrial revolution, electric power and the modern world and transistors and the modern age. Horizontal bands across a doublespread layout divide inventions into four general subject areas, such as daily life and health or agriculhre and industry. The bottom band of the timeline coordinates with corresponding events. Ages 10 up.--J.S.K.
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