| ISBN |
9781776571703 (hardback) |
| Name |
Mycielska, Małgorzata, 1973- author. |
| Title |
Impossible inventions : ideas that shouldn't work / Malgorzata Mycielska ; [illustrations by] Aleksandra and Daniel Mizielinski ; traslation by Agnes Monod-Gayraud. |
| Edition |
First American edition. |
| Published |
Wellington, New Zealand : Gecko Press, [2018] |
| ©2017 |
| Description |
119 pages : colour illustrations ; 26 cm |
| Notes |
English translation originally published: 2017. |
| Originally published in 2014 under the Polish title: Ale patent! by Wydawnictwo Dwie Siostry, Warsaw. |
| Summary |
When Leonardo da Vinci invented the tank, car, helicopter, glider,parachute, submarine, lift and telescope, over 500 years ago, he was considered a dreamer. Or even crazy. Today he is understood to be agenius, ahead of his time.This book collects ancient and modern inventions. Some are revolutionary, others comical, others were simply impossible. But each of them testifies to the extraordinary imaginations of their inventors.You will find here a flying bicycle, bubble telegraph, passenger clouds and passenger birds, mechanical chess players, a water clock, a concentration hood and many more incredible ideas. |
| Target audience note |
6-9 years old. |
| Language note |
Translated from the Polish. |
| Subjects |
Inventions -- Juvenile literature |
| Inventions -- History -- Juvenile literature |
| Science and civilization -- Juvenile literature |
| Discoveries in science -- Juvenile literature |
| Other Names |
Mizieliński, Aleksandra illustrator. |
| Mizieliński, Daniel illustrator. |
| Monod-Gayraud, Agnes translator. |
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