Download or read book Baffling Bizarre Inventions written by Jim Murphy and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-07-20 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A talking watch. An overcoat for two. A pair of pants for poodles. In his companion to Weird & Wacky Inventions, Jim Murphy shows kids some additional baffling and utterly silly inventions in the form of a guessing game that is both challenging and fun. What is a finger-supporting device used for? Can you really buy that talking watch? What on earth is a beard grinder? Whether it’s a device for shaping the upper lip or a life preserver for horses, this parade of unusual inventions is a real treat for trivia lovers and any curious kid with an interest in science and inventions. Ages: 9–12.
Download or read book Odd Inventions written by Virginia Loh-Hagan and published by Cherry Lake. This book was released on 2017-08-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take a look at the world's weirdest inventions--from the Goofybike to fart filters. These stories are too strange to be made up! Written with a high interest level to appeal to a more mature audience and a lower level of complexity with clear visuals to help struggling readers along. Considerate text includes tons of fascinating information and wild facts that will hold the readers' interest, allowing for successful mastery and comprehension. A table of contents, glossary with simplified pronunciations, and index all enhance comprehension.
Download or read book Weird Inventions written by Jennifer Kaul and published by Raintree. This book was released on 2021-10-28 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Humans are ingenious when it comes to meeting challenges. We invent all sorts of useful contraptions from the wheel to the can opener. But some of the things people have come up with are truly odd. Who came up with grass sandals, and why? Have you ever heard of a portable radio hat? Not many people have, but someone invented it. Get the inside scoop on these odd contraptions and many more weird inventions.
Download or read book Weird Inventions for Your Home written by Daniel R. Faust and published by Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP. This book was released on 2018-07-15 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an age of technology and convenience, there seem to be more and more products designed to help people in their homes. However, inventors have been coming up with creations for the home for as long as people have lived in homes. Over the years, many of these inventions have been quite strange. This innovative book takes a look at how these products worked and explains how some of them have even been remodeled over time to create different, more useful inventions.
Download or read book Science s Strangest Inventions written by Tom Quinn and published by Robson. This book was released on 2015-06-04 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of science is littered with mad, bad and delightfully dotty inventions, from the bicycle that relied for its momentum on the rider waggling his head back and forth continually to the Improved Pneumatic Advertising Hat – a bowler that hurled a lit-up billboard into the air at the touch of a button – or the suitcase that turned into a small boat for the nervous ferry passenger. Here is the chance to sample, among other delights, Professor Ray's Nose Adjusting Machine, Admiral Popov's Circular Warship, The Perfect Sleeping Partner (a Japanese pillow shaped just like a man with an arm fitted at the right angle for a comforting cuddle) and last, but by no means least, Calantarient's Improved Dung Trap for Carriage Horses Employed by Ladies of Fashion and those of a Delicate Constitution.
Download or read book Weird Medical Inventions written by Joan Stoltman and published by Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP. This book was released on 2018-07-15 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most people probably don't expect to see too many odd inventions at a hospital or doctor's office. However, over the years there have been quite a few offbeat medical products. Readers of this book will learn how and why these creations were invented and why many of them didn't take off. Vibrant photographs aid in the understanding of these wacky inventions, while sidebars and fact boxes add even more factual and high-interest content that will appeal to readers of many abilities, especially those with creative and imaginative minds.
Download or read book Uncle John s Bathroom Reader Weird Inventions written by Bathroom Readers' Institute and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-05-01 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover strange gadgets you never knew existed in this volume from the nation’s top collector of curious and interesting information! The writers behind Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader present this totally true treasury of amazing gizmos—devilish devices you never knew existed, created by people who thought the world absolutely needed what they had to offer and sell. Read all about: * The onesie that turns your crawling baby into a mop * The fart-stifling blanket * The square watermelon * The video game you control with your mind * The weight loss device that sucks food out of your stomach, and much much more!
Download or read book The Invention of Good and Evil written by Hanno Sauer and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-09-12 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this ambitious volume Hanno Sauer integrates the findings of cutting-edge interdisciplinary research into a sweeping synthetic narrative of human evolution -- a history with morality at its core. He explains how, starting 5 million years ago, adaptive pressures created the need for human cooperation and over time were the source of our notions of right and wrong. Sauer then moves forward in time, showing how this evolutionary inheritance shaped human society, and ultimately how modern societies, and our current social tensions, are the result of this deep history--while at the same time arguing that this history shows that humans share fundamental moral values across time and cultures.
Download or read book Weird Wacky Inventions written by Jim Murphy and published by Random House Childrens Books. This book was released on 1978-01-01 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes drawings of unusual inventions submitted to the patent office with clues to aid the reader in guessing the purpose of each invention.
Download or read book Inventions That Didn t Change the World written by Julie Halls and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2014-12-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A captivating, humorous, and downright perplexing selection of nineteenth-century inventions as revealed through remarkable–and hitherto unseen–illustrations from the British National Archive Inventions that Didn’t Change the World is a fascinating visual tour through some of the most bizarre inventions registered with the British authorities in the nineteenth century. In an era when Britain was the workshop of the world, design protection (nowadays patenting) was all the rage, and the apparently lenient approval process meant that all manner of bizarre curiosities were painstakingly recorded, in beautiful color illustrations and well-penned explanatory text, alongside the genuinely great inventions of the period. Irreverent commentary contextualizes each submission as well as taking a humorous view on how each has stood the test of time. This book introduces such gems as a ventilating top hat; an artificial leech; a design for an aerial machine adapted for the arctic regions; an anti-explosive alarm whistle; a tennis racket with ball-picker; and a currant-cleaning machine. Here is everything the end user could possibly require for a problem he never knew he had. Organized by area of application—industry, clothing, transportation, medical, health and safety, the home, and leisure—Inventions that Didn’t Change the World reveals the concerns of a bygone era giddy with the possibilities of a newly industrialized world.
Download or read book The Wonderful Baron Doppelganger Device written by Eric Bower and published by Amberjack Publishing. This book was released on 2018-03-06 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When someone gets ahold of the Barons’ Wonderful Doppelgänger Device, which allows them to transform into anyone, they use it to land Rose in jail by posing as her to cause a small explosion during the Pitchfork Fair. The dastardly villain then ambushes W.B. and abducts him onto a train bound for the other side of the country. With W.B. out of the way, the imposter replaces him until W.B. returns unexpectedly and exposes the plot. Unfortunately, the deadly duplicate is great at impersonation. To save his skin, W.B. must prove himself by W.B.ing harder than he’s ever W.B.ed before.
Download or read book Weird wacky inventions written by Jim Murphy and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Brilliantly Bad written by Mark Tanner and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2022-09-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of actual patents for wonderfully bizarre inventions, Brilliantly Bad is a salute to what the human mind can achieve - even if it probably shouldn't. This collection of the strangest ideas ever patented, ranging from the bizarre and baffling to the slightly sinister and *oh so close* to genius, is a true celebration of human ingenuity in all its (occasionally) pointless glory. INVENTIONS INCLUDE: * A coat that doubles as a urinal * A musical condom * An automated pet petter * Face-lifting earrings * A weight-lifting device for the penis
Download or read book Weird Inventions and Discoveries written by Howard Zimmerman and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 1991 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book includes amazing but true stories about strange inventions and discoveries such as the eyeball massager, an underwater bicycle, a parking space for gum, and a dogmobile.
Download or read book It Looked Good on Paper written by Bill Fawcett and published by William Morrow Paperbacks. This book was released on 2009-01-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A remarkable compendium of wild schemes, mad plans, crazy inventions, and truly glorious disasters Every phenomenally bad idea seemed like a good idea to someone. How else can you explain the Ford Edsel or the sword pistol—absolutely absurd creations that should have never made it off the drawing board? It Looked Good on Paper gathers together the most flawed plans, half-baked ideas, and downright ridiculous machines throughout history that some second-rate Einstein decided to foist on an unsuspecting populace with the best and most optimistic intentions. Some failed spectacularly. Others fizzled after great expense. One even crashed on Mars. But every one of them at one time must have looked good on paper, including: The lead water pipes of Rome The Tacoma Narrows Bridge—built to collapse The Hubble telescope—the $2 billion scientific marvel that couldn't see The Spruce Goose—Howard Hughes's airborne atrocity: big, expensive, slow, unstable, and made of wood With more than thirty-five chapters full of incredibly insipid inventions, both infamous and obscure, It Looked Good on Paper is a mind-boggling, endlessly entertaining collection of fascinating failures.
Download or read book Invention written by Rick Belshe and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2023-02-09 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The poems within this book are the selected works of Richard Belshe. They take the reader on a journey through the mind of an inventor. The reader will find himself soaring through future revelations and then cautiously uncovering the hidden secrets of the past. Some of the poems within these pages are simple, lively, and fun; and some are deep and heart-wrenchingaEUR"cutting to the very core of the readeraEUR(tm)s emotional being. Sweeter Than Sugar is a prophetic work. The events in this piece take place in the natural world, but every stanza can be linked to a scripture that depicts a prophetic event. aEURoeSoldiers of EvilaEUR describes the inner struggle a man faces when he recognizes the evil inside himself. aEURoeInventor tellsaEUR the story of a writer who seeks to bring life to his creation, but he wrestles with his subconscious who argues that his invention can never be real. So settle in, reader; and instead of the usual warm blanket and cup of coffee, grab your thinking cap, detective skills, and donaEUR(tm)t forget the keys! There will be many mysteries to unlock as you delve into the mind of an inventor and his unconventional invention.
Download or read book Crazy Inventions written by Jeannette Fidell and published by . This book was released on 198? with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Briefly describes some of the craziest inventions ever patented.
