The Battle for Radio: Marconi’s story
The true story of Marconi's first transatlantic radio signal
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Beverley Birch
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The Fight against Microbes: Pasteur’s Story
The true story of a man who helped save millions of lives
Adventures with Electricity: Benjamin Franklin’s story
The true story of one man's curiosity and the discoveries he made about electricity
Transport
The first air passengers were a sheep, a duck and a cock, who sailed up in a hot air balloon, watched by the King of France.
An American inventor has designed a bike with 54 speeds, 5 computers, a security system, a speech synthesizer, and a telephone.
In 1838 the fast journey across the Atlantic (by steamship) took 15 days. Nowadays, planes can fly it in a few hours.
A feast of weird and wonderful facts about transport
A Science Museum Book of Amazing Facts
Illustrated by Tim Archbold
[published by Hodder Children’s Books]
