Scottish inventors
Smailes, Gary2011
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For a small country, Scotland has produced a huge number of people whose ingenuity have literally changed the world. In this informative book, aimed at children from 9-12, Gary Smailes tells the stories of 32 men and women, and their often bizarre inventions, who have put Scotland on the map.
Main title:
Scottish inventors / Gary Smailes ; illustrated by Scoular Anderson.
Author:
Imprint:
Edinburgh : Birlinn, 2011.
Collation:
128 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Audience:
Juvenile.pym; pyu; syl.
ISBN:
9781841589305 (pbk)1841589306 (pbk)
Dewey class:
609.2'2'411J608J609.411608609.22609.224J609.22411609609.411609.22411609.2241 Scotland608.722
Local class:
609.22608608.7J608609
Language:
English
Subject:
Index terms:
James WattAlexander Graham BellJohn Logie BairdHenry FauldsInventionsInventorsScotlandTechnology
BRN:
732993
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