Impossible Inventions, 9781776571703
Hardcover
Unleash your imagination: Explore impossible inventions, ancient and modern.

Impossible Inventions

ideas that shouldn't work

$29.40

  • Hardcover

    128 pages

  • Release Date

    1 December 2017

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Summary

Dreamers and Schemers: A Compendium of Impossible Inventions

When Leonardo da Vinci sketched ideas for the tank, car, helicopter, glider, parachute, submarine, lift, and telescope over 500 years ago, he was considered a dreamer, even crazy. Today, he is understood to be a genius ahead of his time.

This book collects ancient and modern inventions. Some are revolutionary, others comical, and still others were simply impossible. But each testifies to the extraordinary imaginati…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781776571703
ISBN-10:1776571703
Author:Malgorzata Mycielska, Aleksandra Mizielinska
Publisher:Gecko Press
Imprint:Gecko Press
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:128
Release Date:1 December 2017
Weight:598g
Dimensions:20mm x 256mm x 33mm
What They're Saying

Critics Review

“Each invention is outlined with brilliant diagrammatic illustrations on a double-page spread, and the book puts each invention into a humorous context with a cartoon on the following page” – Book Trust“This brilliant book, which includes ideas ancient and modern, revolutionary and comical, is simply brimming with witty, richly coloured illustrations and concise, fully accessible descriptions and will hopefully inspire a new generation of youngsters to get inventing themselves!” – Lancashire Post“It’s a fun book. Sure it covers physics, mechanics, gases…but its not homework in disguise. Also, in typical Gecko Press fashion, Impossible Inventions is physically lovely, with paper you want to smush your cheeks against and colours you want to eat.” – The Sapling

“An amiable ramble past some of the quirkier highlights in the history of invention.”

– Kirkus Reviews

About The Author

Malgorzata Mycielska

Alexandra Mizielinska and Daniel Mizielinski are graduates of the Faculty of Graphic Arts of the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts and founders of the Hipopotam Studio. They are authors of internationally recognized children’s books and creators of fonts, apps and websites. Their prize-winning book Maps was a worldwide bestseller.

Malgorzata Mycielska is an art historian, publisher and book editor.

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