01507cam a2200325 4500 130157326 TxAuBib 20080416120000.0 941116s1994||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780810383753 $69.95 0810383756 $69.95 (OCoLC)29339055 IMchF-DB IMchF-DB TxAuBib World of invention [R] / Bridget Travers, editor ; Jeffrey Muhr, assistant editor. Detroit : Gale Research, 1994. xi, 770 p. : ill. ; 29 cm. Subtitle on cover: History's most significant inventions and the people behind them. Includes indexes. Bibliography: p. 705-709. Comprehensive reference source on well-known, as well as lesser-known, inventions and inventors, containing 785 topical and 361 biographical entries covering evrything from the wheel and axle to genetic engineering, skateboards to chewing gum, razors to lasers, hydrogen bombs to disposable diapers, and people as different in background, method, and interests as Charles Babbage and Charles Goodyear. Adult. 20080416. Inventions History Encyclopedias. Inventions History Dictionaries. Inventors Biography Encyclopedias. Inventors Biography Dictionaries. Travers, Bridget. Muhr, Jeffrey. TXGPL