Page 7 - Inventions - A Visual Encyclopedia (DK - Smithsonian)
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Henry Ford                           96                   A quick bite                        198
           Pick a car!                          98                   Vacuum cleaners                     200
           Public transit                      100                   James Dyson                         202
           On the road                         102                   Recorded music                      204
           Sail power                          104                   Listen to the music                 206
           On the water                        106                   Games and pastimes                  208
           Boats and ships                     108                   Video games                         210
           Navigating at sea                   110                   The flushing toilet                 212
           Going underwater                    112                   Keeping up appearances              214
           Floating carriers                   114                   Time to relax                       216
           Taking to the skies                 116                   In the closet                       218
           The Wright brothers                 118                   Fasteners                           220
           Jets to solar planes                120
           Other flying machines               122                   IN GOOD HEALTH                      222
           Drone deliveries                    124
           Railroads                           126                   Looking inside                      224
           On the tracks                       128                   Marie Curie                         226
           Flying train                        130                   Better diagnoses                    228
           The Stephensons                     132                   Anesthetics                         230
                                                                     Medical marvels                     232
           COMMUNICATION                       134                   Microscopes                         234
                                                                     War on germs                        236
                                                                     Developing treatments               238
           The telegraph                       136
           Measuring time                      138                   Super mold                          240
           Telling the time                    140                   Vaccinations                        242
           The telephone                       142                   Louis Pasteur                       244
                                                                     Dental health
                                                                                                         246
           Taking a call                       144                   New body parts                      248
           Smartphone                          146
           The supercomputer                   148
           Radio                               150                   SPACE                               250
           Listen to the radio                 152
           Connecting continents               154                   Studying the stars                  252
           The camera                          156                   Telescopes                          254
           Snap away!                          158                   Atacama observatory                 256
           Cinema                              160                   Galileo Galilei                     258
           Television                          162                   Satellites                          260
           Big screens                         164                   Watching over Earth                 262
           Written communication               166                   Communication                       264
           Bright lights                       168                   Space debris                        266
           The computer                        170                   Rockets                             268
           Home computers                      172                   Rocket race                         270
           World Wide Web                      174                   Manned spaceflight                  272
           Ada Lovelace                        176                   Manned missions                     274
                                                                     Space stations                      276
                                                                     Living in space                     278
           AT HOME                             178                   Space agencies                      280
                                                                     Space technology for Earth          282
           The light bulb                      180                   Robotic probes                      284
           Lighting up the world               182                   Pushing the boundaries              286
           Fish and solar power                184
           Thomas Edison                       186                   Ingenious inventors                 288
           High voltage                        188                   Glossary                            292
           The battery                         190                   Index                               296
           Washing                             192                   Acknowledgments                     302
           Kitchen devices                     194
           Keeping cool                        196






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