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Eureka!
Great Inventions and How They Happened
By Platt, Richard
- ISBN
- 978-0-75345-580-7
- Publisher
- Boston : Kingfisher, 2003.
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on March 1, 2004
Gr 4-8 Platt organizes his introductions to inventors and inventions around "eureka moments" when scientific breakthroughs occurred. Two-page topical entries include a brief biography of the scientist, an account of the pivotal event, and an explanation of what happened next. The author's 29 examples include such familiar stories as Eli Whitney and the cotton gin and Edward Jenner and the smallpox vaccination. Other accounts, such as that...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
