Inventions
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Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
by:
Dava Sobel
3.99 avg rating — 75,016 ratings 
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How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler
by:
Ryan North
4.14 avg rating — 6,051 ratings 
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Mauve: How One Man Invented a Colour That Changed the World
by:
Simon Garfield
3.67 avg rating — 1,876 ratings 7. 
The Discoverers: A History of Man's Search to Know His World and Himself 4.11 avg rating — 11,776 ratings
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Papyrus: The Invention of Books in the Ancient World
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Irene Vallejo
4.25 avg rating — 22,590 ratings 9. 
The Boo-Boos That Changed the World: A True Story About an Accidental Invention 4.09 avg rating — 1,076 ratings
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What Color Is My World?: The Lost History of African-American Inventors 4.21 avg rating — 419 ratings
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Awesome Minds: The Inventors of LEGO® Toys: An Entertaining History about the Creation of LEGO Toys. Educational and Entertaining.
by:
Erin Hagar
4.26 avg rating — 107 ratings 
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First Flight: The Story of the Wright Brothers (DK Readers L4)
by:
Leslie Garrett
3.80 avg rating — 35 ratings 13. 
African-American Inventions That Changed The World: Influential Inventors and Their Revolutionary Creations 4.47 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Sam Phillips: The Man Who Invented Rock 'n' Roll
by:
Peter Guralnick
3.99 avg rating — 1,088 ratings 17. 
The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind's Greatest Invention
by:
Guy Deutscher
4.22 avg rating — 3,979 ratings 
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The Art of Rube Goldberg: (A) Inventive (B) Cartoon (C) Genius
by:
Jennifer George
4.10 avg rating — 93 ratings 
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The Things We Make: The Unknown History of Invention from Cathedrals to Soda Cans
by:
Bill Hammack
3.75 avg rating — 1,150 ratings 
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Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century
by:
Charles King
4.26 avg rating — 2,337 ratings 
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Charles Fort: The Man Who Invented the Supernatural
by:
Jim Steinmeyer
3.59 avg rating — 226 ratings 29. 
Metropolis: A History of the City, Humankind's Greatest Invention
by:
Ben Wilson
4.14 avg rating — 2,498 ratings 
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The Invention of Medicine: From Homer to Hippocrates
by:
Robin Lane Fox
3.37 avg rating — 169 ratings 
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We Are All Targets: How Renegade Hackers Invented Cyber War and Unleashed an Age of Global Chaos
by:
Matt Potter
3.83 avg rating — 77 ratings 
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Lion City: Singapore and the Invention of Modern Asia
by:
Jeevan Vasagar
4.04 avg rating — 412 ratings 
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The Man Who Invented Motion Pictures: A True Tale of Obsession, Murder, and the Movies
by:
Paul Fischer
3.58 avg rating — 643 ratings 45. 
Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars
by:
Nathalia Holt
3.87 avg rating — 9,262 ratings 45. 
Inventor of the Future: The Visionary Life of Buckminster Fuller
by:
Alec Nevala-Lee
3.66 avg rating — 273 ratings 47. 
100 Scientists Who Made History (DK 100 Things That Made History)
by:
Andrea Mills
4.43 avg rating — 28 ratings 47. 
Wonder Women: 25 Innovators, Inventors, and Trailblazers Who Changed History
by:
Sam Maggs
3.98 avg rating — 2,136 ratings 47. 
Inventing the It Girl: How Elinor Glyn Created the Modern Romance and Conquered Early Hollywood 3.73 avg rating — 229 ratings
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Scientist, Scientist, Who Do You See?: A Rhyming Book about Famous Scientists for Kids
by:
Chris Ferrie
3.91 avg rating — 196 ratings 50. 
Camera Man: Buster Keaton, the Dawn of Cinema, and the Invention of the Twentieth Century
by:
Dana Stevens
4.19 avg rating — 1,581 ratings 52. 
Whoosh!: Lonnie Johnson's Super-Soaking Stream of Inventions
by:
Chris Barton
4.24 avg rating — 2,233 ratings 52. 
Gun Barons: The Weapons That Transformed America and the Men Who Invented Them 3.86 avg rating — 228 ratings
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A Thousand Glass Flowers: Marietta Barovier and the Invention of the Rosetta Bead
by:
Evan Turk
4.13 avg rating — 269 ratings 56. 
100 People Who Made History: Meet the People Who Shaped the Modern World (100 in History)
by:
Ben Gilliland
4.06 avg rating — 86 ratings 
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Oh, the Things They Invented!: All About Great Inventors
by:
Bonnie Worth
3.94 avg rating — 110 ratings 58. 
12 Seconds Of Silence: How a Team of Inventors, Tinkerers, and Spies Took Down a Nazi Superweapon
by:
Jamie Holmes
4.21 avg rating — 490 ratings 
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Plato's Alarm Clock: And Other Amazing Ancient Inventions
by:
James M. Russell
3.58 avg rating — 79 ratings 62. 
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How the Cookie Crumbled: The True (and Not-So-True) Stories of the Invention of the Chocolate Chip Cookie
by:
Gilbert Ford
4.13 avg rating — 307 ratings 63. 
The Invention of Surgery: A History of Modern Medicine: From the Renaissance to the Implant Revolution
by:
David Schneider
3.78 avg rating — 430 ratings 
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Drive!: Henry Ford, George Selden, and the Race to Invent the Auto Age 3.88 avg rating — 243 ratings
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Inventing the World: Venice and the Transformation of Western Civilization
by:
Meredith Small
3.64 avg rating — 55 ratings 
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When Women Invented Television: The Untold Story of the Female Powerhouses Who Pioneered the Way We Watch Today 3.94 avg rating — 1,063 ratings
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Earmuffs for Everyone!: How Chester Greenwood Became Known as the Inventor of Earmuffs
by:
Meghan Mccarthy
3.59 avg rating — 628 ratings 73. 
Elsie Clews Parsons: Inventing Modern Life (Volume 1997) (Women in Culture and Society)
by:
Desley Deacon
3.50 avg rating — 10 ratings 75. 
If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future
by:
Jill Lepore
3.72 avg rating — 2,546 ratings 
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Frank Zappa FAQ: All That's Left to Know About the Father of Invention
by:
John Corcelli
3.97 avg rating — 34 ratings 
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Wonderworks: The 25 Most Powerful Inventions in the History of Literature
by:
Angus Fletcher
4.03 avg rating — 719 ratings 80. 
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Amazon Unbound: Jeff Bezos and the Invention of a Global Empire
by:
Brad Stone
4.08 avg rating — 6,804 ratings 
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101 Unuseless Japanese Inventions: The Art of Chindogu
by:
Kenji Kawakami
3.84 avg rating — 161 ratings 83. 
The Last Lost World: Ice Ages, Human Origins, and the Invention of the Pleistocene
by:
Lydia Pyne
2.95 avg rating — 144 ratings 
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Mother of Invention: How Good Ideas Get Ignored in an Economy Built for Men
by:
Katrine Marçal
3.89 avg rating — 2,350 ratings 87. 
Know It All Great Inventions: The 50 Greatest Inventions, Each Explained in Under a Minute (Know It All, 7)
by:
David Boyle
3.90 avg rating — 21 ratings 87. 
The Invention of Science: A New History of the Scientific Revolution
by:
David Wootton
3.88 avg rating — 884 ratings 89. 
Hoop Genius: How a Desperate Teacher and a Rowdy Gym Class Invented Basketball
by:
John Coy
3.91 avg rating — 910 ratings 89. 
The Most Powerful Idea in the World: A Story of Steam, Industry, and Invention
by:
William Rosen
3.93 avg rating — 1,369 ratings 91. 
The Boy Who Invented TV: The Story of Philo Farnsworth
by:
Kathleen Krull
3.90 avg rating — 588 ratings 
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52 Random Weekend Projects: For Budding Inventors and Backyard Builders 4.21 avg rating — 77 ratings
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The Invention of Yesterday: A 50,000-Year History of Human Culture, Conflict, and Connection
by:
Tamim Ansary
4.29 avg rating — 1,165 ratings 
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Imperfect Union: How Jessie and John Frémont Mapped the West, Invented Celebrity, and Helped Cause the Civil War
by:
Steve Inskeep
3.88 avg rating — 1,535 ratings 99. 
The Way Things Work: Newly Revised Edition: The Ultimate Guide to How Things Work
by:
David Macaulay
4.52 avg rating — 480 ratings 99. 
My Invented Country: A Nostalgic Journey Through Chile
by:
Isabel Allende
3.89 avg rating — 11,983 ratings