Bleeps and Blips to Rocket Ships: Great Inventions in Communications

by Alannah Hegedus and Kaitlin Rainey

Bill Slavin (Illustrator)

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Our fast-paced world of fax machines, digital cameras, and cell phones is possible because of the work of inventors who paved the way for modern communications.

Meet:

Reginald Fessenden, who thought of a continuous wireless signal when he noted the ripples resulting from a rock he tossed in a lake;

Alexander Graham Bell, who made his famous call – "Mr. Watson, come here! I want you!" – because he had spilled acid onto his trousers;

William Stephenson, inventor of the wirephoto, who was a spy during the Second World War.

From newsprint to fiber optics, discover ten great inventions in this fascinating book, and a great resource for science projects and science fairs:

• Make your own paper

• Create your own halftone image

• Make your own pinhole camera

• Make a telegraph

• Use Morse code

• Make a light fountain
  • ISBN10 0887764525
  • ISBN13 9780887764523
  • Publish Date 14 March 2001
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country CA
  • Imprint Tundra Books