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Great inventors and their inventions: Archimedes, Gutenberg, Franklin, Nobel, Bell, Marconi, The Wright Brothers, Edison

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Nine remarkable men produced inventions that changed the world.

The printing press, the telephone, powered flight and recording and many others have made the modern world what it is.

But who were the men who had these ideas and made reality of them?

As David Angus shows, they were very different - quiet, boisterous, confident, withdrawn - but all had a moment of vision allied to single-minded determination to battle through numerous prototypes to produce something that really worked.

It is a fascinating account for younger listeners.

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Naxos AudioBooks
1843795310 / 9781843795315
eBook (EPUB)
609
01/07/2012
England
English
69 pages
Copy: 10%; print: 10%
Description based on CD version CIP data; resource not viewed. Read by Benjamin Soames.