Totally Wallace & Gromit World of Invention - November 2010
Totally Wallace & Gromit World of Invention is the official tie-in magazine is packed with fun facts, inventing tips, behind-the-scenes features, exclusive new comic strip stories, posters, puzzles and more! This one-off special edition magazine is a must-have for all inventors extraordinaire, aspiring geniuses, long-suffering companions and trusty side-kicks!
In September 1878, Thomas Alva Edison brashly—and prematurely—proclaimed his breakthrough invention of a workable electric light. That announcement was followed by many months of intense experimentation that led to the successful completion of his Pearl Street station four years later. Edison was not alone—nor was he first—in developing an incandescent light bulb, but his was the most successful of all competing inventions.
Cathedral, Forge, and Waterwheel - Technology and Invention in the Middle Ages
A fascinating exploration of how Western Europe, after the chaos of the Dark Ages, rose to lead the world in technology examines how such inventions as the spinning wheel, the flying buttress, and the blast furnace helped create Western culture.
The Unfolding of Language - An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind's Greatest Invention
Using language himself in a lively and engaging way, Deutscher, an expert in Semitic languages at the University of Leiden in Holland, identifies two principles—the desire to create order out of chaotic reality, and the urge to vary the sounds of words and their meanings—providing the direction by which language developed and continues to develop. Rather than search for the prehistoric moment when speech originated, Deutscher says we can most profitably understand the phenomenon by taking the present as the key to the past.
Frank and Joe Hardy receive an unusual assignment from their detective father. They are to "break into" the house of a Bayport neighbor, Malcolm Wright, and retrieve a top secret invention that the scientist had hidden in his study before leaving for California. The invention is in danger of being stolen, and the boys race against time to beat the thieves at thier own game.
