This free documentary with retro illustrations reviews the 80 largest inventions of humanity, from the first prehistoric tools to the 3D printer. Each has its dedicated page: it is told its birth, its development, the people who contributed to it and the main lines of its operation. Many detailed and legendary images perfect these explanations to better know and understand them. Thus, we plunge in particular into an aquarium (which comes from the Latin “aqua”, water), an invention that we owe to a French biologist, Jeanne Villepreux-Power.
Some of the discoveries presented in this book are today an integral part of our daily life, such as the wheel, the toilets, chocolate or even toothpaste; Others seem more distant to us as they seem complex, such as the space rocket, the battery or the atomic bomb. We learn, for example, that failures have been adapted from a similar set of tray from India, catarunga, more than a thousand five hundred years ago. This strategy game has evolved over time and travel. The version of the former Persians was called Shatranj. As for the term “failure and mat”, it comes from the Persian Sâh mast, “the king is defeated”, explains the book.
Encourage curiosity
This very nicely illustrated documentary highlights human genius through 80 revolutionary inventions and five thousand years of science history: plane, staphandre, bicycle, soap, radar … Reading hours to continue to encourage curiosity and even, who knows, provoke engineering vocations in children from 9 years old.
The world tour in 80 inventionsfrom Matt Ralphs, illustrated by Robbie Cathro, ed. La Martinière Jeunesse, 96 p., 17.90 euros. From 9 years old. Find other chronicles on the blog children on the page.
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