Download or read book Imaginative Inventions written by Charise Mericle Harper and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2008-12-14 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written in verse and filled with full-color illustrations drawn by the author, this book invites young readers inside the minds of great inventors, encouraging them to think imaginatively as it offers the origins of items such as roller skates, potato chips, eyeglasses, the vacuum cleaner, and more.
Download or read book Sophie s Imaginative Inventions written by Savanah Springs Pacelli and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2024-04-04 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Join Sophie on her journey of innovation and discovery – and get ready to step into your own adventure! Sophie, a young girl with a passion for innovation, loved shoes! From a young age, Sophie was fascinated by shoes. She put them in her mouth, on her head, and even used them as a bowl for snacks. But as she grew older, Sophie's love for shoes led her down a path of creativity and innovation. She began working with tools, collecting litter to use in her inventions, and dreaming about designing her own shoes. With a growth mindset, Sophie set out to make her dream a reality. She learned how to sew, designed her favourite pair of shoes, and started her own pet-walking business to earn money for materials. And when she faced obstacles along the way, she didn't give up – instead, she persevered and came up with creative solutions to make her shoes a reality. So come along and see Sophie's imaginative creations!
Download or read book Inventions of the Imagination written by Richard T. Gray and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2011-06-20 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dialectic between reason and imagination forms a key element in Romantic and post-Romantic philosophy, science, literature, and art. This book explores the diverse theories and assessments of this dialectic in a collection of essays by philosophers and literary and cultural critics.
Download or read book Creative Imagery written by Ronald A. Finke and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2014-02-25 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together the results of experiments on discovery and invention in visualization conducted by the author over a three year period, this book reports new findings on the generation of creative inventions and concepts using mental imagery, and proposes a reconceptualization of the creative process. Creative Imagery introduces the concept of “preinventive forms” and describes an approach to creative invention differing from those typically used in problem-solving studies. There are two unique features of this book. First, it combines the experimental methods of cognitive science with the opportunity to explore and discover creative inventions in imagination. Second, it provides readers with numerous opportunities to use the creative imagery techniques to develop their own inventions and conceptual discoveries. This text is of particular interest to scientists working in the fields of experimental psychology, cognitive psychology, and cognitive science. The techniques for generating creative inventions will also be of interest to people working in engineering, architectural design, and the visual arts.
Download or read book Inventions of the Imagination written by Richard T. Gray and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2011-10-17 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dialectic between reason and imagination forms a key element in Romantic and post- Romantic philosophy, science, literature, and art. Inventions of the Imagination explores the diverse theories and assessments of this dialectic in essays by philosophers and literary and cultural critics. By the end of the eighteenth century, reason as the predominant human faculty had run its course, and imagination emerged as another force whose contributions to human intellectual existence and productivity had to be newly calculated and constantly recalibrated. The attempt to establish a universal form of reason alongside a plurality of imaginative capacities describes the ideological program of modernism from the end of the eighteenth century to the present day. This collection chronicles some of the vicissitudes in the conceptualization and evaluation of the imagination across time and in various disciplines.
Download or read book Incredible Inventions written by Lee Bennett Hopkins and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-03-03 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inventions can be big, like roller coasters, or small, like crayons. And inventors can be scientists or athletes or even boys and girls! It's hard to imagine life without Popsicles, basketball, or Band-Aids, but they all started with just one person and a little imagination. With sixteen original poems selected by Lee Bennett Hopkins and Julia Sarcone-Roach's imaginative artwork, Incredible Inventions celebrates creativity that comes in all shapes and sizes. What will you invent today?
Download or read book Rube Goldberg written by Maynard Frank Wolfe and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2000-11-20 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to the world of that archetypal American, Reuben Lucius Goldberg, the dean of American cartoonists for most of the twentieth century. For more than sixty-five years, Rube Goldberg's syndicated cartoons -- he produced more than fifty strips -- appeared in as many as a thousand newspapers annually He was earning a hundred thousand dollars a year...in 1915. He wrote hit songs and stories and was, in succession, a star in vaudeville, motion pictures, newsreels, radio, and, finally, television. He even, at the age of eighty, began an entirely new career as a sculptor, and, in inimitable Goldberg fashion, was soon selling his work to galleries, collectors, and museums all over the world. Sure, Rube won the Pulitzer Prize. Every yearsomecartoonist wins the Pulitzer Prize. But the National Cartoonists Societynamedits award -- the Reuben -- after you-know-who. But it was Rube's "Inventions," those drawings of intricate and whimsical machines, that earned Rube his very own entry inWebster's New World Dictionary: Rube Goldberg...adjective...Designating any very complicated invention, machine, scheme, etc. laboriously contrived to perform a seemingly simple operation. "Inventions," even the earliest ones that date from 1914, are still being republished and recycled today as they have been over the last eighty-five years. New generations rediscover and enjoy them every day, even though their creator cleaned his pens, put the cap on his bottle of Higgins Black India Ink, and cleared his drawing board for the last time almost thirty years ago. The inventions inspired the National Rube Goldberg™ Machine Contest, held annually at Purdue University, an "Olympics of complexity" in which hundreds of engineering students from American universities and colleges -- and even middle and high schools -- compete to build and run Rube Goldberg invention machines that perform, in twenty or more steps, the annual challenge. In 1970 the Smithsonian Institution hosted a show honoring Rube Goldberg's lifework. In a life filled with superlatives, it hardly needs mentioning that Rube is the only living cartoonist and humorist to have been so honored. In his speech at the show's opening, Rube said, "Many of the younger generation know my name in a vague way and connect it with grotesque inventions, but don't believe that I ever existed as a person. They think I am a nonperson, just a name that signifies a tangled web of pipes or wires or strings that suggest machinery. My name to them is like spiral staircase, veal cutlets, barber's itch -- terms that give you an immediate picture of what they mean..." So welcome to a collection of spiral staircases and veal cutlets -- to the inventions of an American original, a creative genius named Rube Goldberg.
Download or read book Amazing Leonardo da Vinci Inventions written by Maxine Anderson and published by Nomad Press. This book was released on 2006-07-15 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amazing Leonardo da Vinci Inventions You Can Build Yourself introduces readers to the life, world, and incredible mind of Leonardo da Vinci through hands-on building projects that explore his invention ideas. Most of Leonardo's inventions were never made in his lifetime—they remained sketches in his famous notebooks. Amazing Leonardo da Vinci Inventions You Can Build Yourself shows you how to bring these ideas to life using common household supplies. Detailed step-by-step instructions, diagrams, and templates for creating each project combine with historical facts and anecdotes, biographies and trivia about the real-life models for each project. Together they give kids a first-hand look into the amazing mind of one the world’s greatest inventors.
Download or read book Impossible Inventions written by Małgorzata Mycielska and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Previously published in English in 2017. Originally published in Poland in 2014.
Download or read book 50 More Black Inventors Not Recognized Unsung Heroes Creative Inventions World Changers written by Puddy Phatt Publishing and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-03-19 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How many black inventors do you know? These are some of the unsung heroes throughout history that have changed the world. Whether in technology, medicine or science. These Inventors have paved the way for exploration and progression for the human race. Inventors like: HENRIETTA BRADBERRY ALFRED J BEARD SOLOMON HARPER DAVID A FISHER... Find the answers to WHO invented the lawn mower? WHO invented the hair curlers? WHO invented the urinalysis machine? Use your journal to research the inventors and jot down what, when and why they did what they did! Be informed, be inspired. A great gift for Home-schoolers, college resources, personal or group projects or just for fun. MORE BOOKS BY PUDDY PHATT PUBLISHING: - 50 Black inventors not recognized - The Art of a Minute-Taker - My Adinkra Colouring Book: For Conscious Folk - So what did you learn Book Review & Study Notebook - My journey Journal
Download or read book Whoosh written by Chris Barton and published by Charlesbridge Publishing. This book was released on 2016-05-03 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrate the inventor of the Super Soaker in this inspiring picture book biography about Lonnie Johnson, the maker behind one of the world's favorite toys. You know the Super Soaker. It’s one of top twenty toys of all time. And it was invented entirely by accident. Trying to create a new cooling system for refrigerators and air conditioners, impressive inventor Lonnie Johnson instead created the mechanics for the iconic toy. A love for rockets, robots, inventions, and a mind for creativity began early in Lonnie Johnson’s life. Growing up in a house full of brothers and sisters, persistence and a passion for problem solving became the cornerstone for a career as an engineer and his work with NASA. But it is his invention of the Super Soaker water gun that has made his most memorable splash with kids and adults.
Download or read book The Invention of Wings written by Sue Monk Kidd and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-01-07 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The newest Oprah’s Book Club 2.0 selection: this special eBook edition of The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd features exclusive content, including Oprah’s personal notes highlighted within the text, and a reading group guide. Writing at the height of her narrative and imaginative gifts, Sue Monk Kidd presents a masterpiece of hope, daring, the quest for freedom, and the desire to have a voice in the world. Hetty “Handful” Grimke, an urban slave in early nineteenth century Charleston, yearns for life beyond the suffocating walls that enclose her within the wealthy Grimke household. The Grimke’s daughter, Sarah, has known from an early age she is meant to do something large in the world, but she is hemmed in by the limits imposed on women. Kidd’s sweeping novel is set in motion on Sarah’s eleventh birthday, when she is given ownership of ten year old Handful, who is to be her handmaid. We follow their remarkable journeys over the next thirty five years, as both strive for a life of their own, dramatically shaping each other’s destinies and forming a complex relationship marked by guilt, defiance, estrangement and the uneasy ways of love. As the stories build to a riveting climax, Handful will endure loss and sorrow, finding courage and a sense of self in the process. Sarah will experience crushed hopes, betrayal, unrequited love, and ostracism before leaving Charleston to find her place alongside her fearless younger sister, Angelina, as one of the early pioneers in the abolition and women’s rights movements. Inspired by the historical figure of Sarah Grimke, Kidd goes beyond the record to flesh out the rich interior lives of all of her characters, both real and invented, including Handful’s cunning mother, Charlotte, who courts danger in her search for something better. This exquisitely written novel is a triumph of storytelling that looks with unswerving eyes at a devastating wound in American history, through women whose struggles for liberation, empowerment, and expression will leave no reader unmoved. Please note there is another digital edition available without Oprah’s notes. Go to Oprah.com/bookclub for more OBC 2.0 content
Download or read book The Invention of Hugo Cabret written by Brian Selznick and published by Scholastic. This book was released on 2015-09-03 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An orphan and thief, Hugo lives in the walls of a busy train station. He desperately believes a broken automaton will make his dreams come true. But when his world collides with an eccentric girl and a bitter old man, Hugo's undercover life are put in jeopardy. Turn the pages, follow the illustrations and enter an unforgettable new world!
Download or read book Wonderworks written by Angus Fletcher and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-03-08 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A brilliant examination of literary invention through the ages, from ancient Mesopotamia to Elena Ferrante, showing how writers created technical breakthroughs as sophisticated and significant as any in science, and in the process, engineered enhancements to the human heart and mind"--
Download or read book Sophie s Imaginative Inventions written by Savanah Springs Pacelli and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2024-03-27 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Join Sophie on her journey of innovation and discovery – and get ready to step into your own adventure! Sophie, a young girl with a passion for innovation, loved shoes! From a young age, Sophie was fascinated by shoes. She put them in her mouth, on her head, and even used them as a bowl for snacks. But as she grew older, Sophie's love for shoes led her down a path of creativity and innovation. She began working with tools, collecting litter to use in her inventions, and dreaming about designing her own shoes. With a growth mindset, Sophie set out to make her dream a reality. She learned how to sew, designed her favourite pair of shoes, and started her own pet-walking business to earn money for materials. And when she faced obstacles along the way, she didn't give up – instead, she persevered and came up with creative solutions to make her shoes a reality. So come along and see Sophie's imaginative creations!
Download or read book Children s Book Pack Imaginative Inventions written by Nsta and published by . This book was released on 2023-08-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imaginative Inventions booklet, Flip: How the Frisbee Took Flight, Imaginative Inventions
Download or read book Ben the Inventor written by Robin Stevenson and published by Orca Book Publishers. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inventors invent inventions! That's what Ben and his best friend Jack like to say. So when Ben discovers that Jack's family is planning to move to another city, he decides they should put their inventions to work. The boys figure that if no one buys Jack's house, Jack won't have to move away, so all they need is a plan to scare off potential buyers! Inventors are good at coming up with plans. But when Plans A, B and C fail to bring the results the boys had hoped for, Ben discovers that not everything in life stays the same—and that while change can be hard, sometimes it isn't all bad.
