Inventions We Use to Go Places

Inventions We Use to Go Places
Author: Jane Bidder
Publisher: Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
Total Pages: 36
Release: 2006-12-15
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780836869019

Describes the history of inventions used for transportation, including bicycles, trains, wheelchairs, and helicopters.

Out of Place in Time and Space

Out of Place in Time and Space
Author: Lamont Wood
Publisher: Red Wheel/Weiser
Total Pages: 285
Release: 2011-08-15
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 1601636482

There are many examples of technology and beliefs appearing decades—even centuries before they supposedly originated. The Apollo Program was outlined a century before it happened. A painting from the Middle Ages shows a flying toy helicopter. We’ve found ancient Greek computers and heard stories of Roman death rays. The Pacific Front of World War II was described 16 years before the war started. The existence and documentation of these and many other events and anomalies impossibly ahead of their time are beyond dispute. Out of Place in Time and Space delves deeply into these impossibilities, showcasing: Objects, beliefs, and practices from the present that show up in the past, long before they were supposedly invented. Personal careers that appear to have been founded on knowlege of the future. Roman-era machines that were hundreds of years ahead of their time UFOs, never officially documented in any time period, yet still showing up in medieval paintings.

To Have and to Hold

To Have and to Hold
Author: Philipp Blom
Publisher: Abrams
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2004-06-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1468302183

From amassing sacred relics to collecting celebrity memorabilia, the impulse to hoard has gripped humankind throughout the centuries. But what is it that drives people to possess objects that have no conceivable use? To Have and To Hold is a captivating tour of collectors and their treasures from medieval times to the present, from a cabinet containing unicorn horns and a Tsar's collection of teeth to the macabre art of embalmer Dr. Frederick Ruysch, the fabled castle of William Randolph Hearst, and the truly preoccupied men who stockpile food wrappers and plastic cups. An engrossing story of the collector as bridegroom, deliriously, obsessively happy, wed to his possessions, till death do us part.

Tom Swift and his Chest of Secrets; Or, Tracing the Stolen Inventions

Tom Swift and his Chest of Secrets; Or, Tracing the Stolen Inventions
Author: Howard R. Garis
Publisher: DigiCat
Total Pages: 136
Release: 2022-08-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Tom Swift and his Chest of Secrets; Or, Tracing the Stolen Inventions" by Howard R. Garis. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.