Clive GiffordA Question of Technology: Who Invented Inventing?
And other questions about inventions
Clive Gifford is the author of more than 150 children's books including Eye Benders, winner of the Royal Society Young People's Book Prize, Royal Society-nominated Out of This World and Cool Technology which won the School Library Association Information Book Award. His book, The Colours of History, won the Blue Peter Book Awards' Best Book With Facts. He has travelled through 70 countries, run a computer games company and taken part in all manner of sports from parachuting and gliding to Ultimate Frisbee. Clive's official website can be found at www.clivegifford.co.uk
1: What is an invention?
2: Who invented inventing?
3: How do inventors invent?
4: Do inventors make squillions?
5: What was the great telephone race?
6: Who invented the concrete sofa?
7: Where are all the female inventors?
8: Were can openers really invented 50 years after cans?
9: Are inventions ever recycled?
10: How can a vest stop speeding bullets?
11: How did a bird build a bullet train?
12: Do inventions ever occur by accident?
13: Quick-fire questions
14: Glossary/find out more
15: Index