Inventors and their bright ideas - Dr Mike Goldsmith

You've probably heard of a few inventors and their bright ideas..*AlexanderGraham Bell and his telephone*George Stevenson and his Rocket (which was really a train)*John Logie Baird and his television.But have you heard that...*Bell didn't invent the phone, but he did make a weird machine outof hay and a human ear*Stevenson didn't invent the train, but he did spend a lot of timecollecting gas in bladders*Baird's telly was useless, and so were his thermostatic socks?Yes, even though they're dead, inventors are still full of surprises-andthe ten in this book are more surprising than most. Now youcan get the inside story from their long lost notebooks, readthe ground-breaking news stories as their inventions hit the headlines,and find out all about the bright ideas that changed theworld.