Invention

Tools, engines, circuits and the ideas behind them are traced in Invention, a DK Eyewitness title on how human ingenuity reshaped daily life. Lionel Bender works through developments in transport, communication, medicine and engineering, pairing photographs of objects with diagrams that show how they function and short accounts of the people who built them. The Eyewitness format puts artefacts at the centre, so a reader sees the actual machines rather than only reading about them, and each spread can be taken on its own. The stories behind the inventions carry as much weight as the technical description. How the material is arranged: • Inventions grouped by field, from transport to medicine and engineering • Photographed objects paired with cutaway and explanatory diagrams • Accounts of the inventors placed alongside their work • Self-contained spreads that suit project research Suited to school students, project work, classroom libraries and young readers drawn to technology, published by DK and available from Boipoka.