Inventions & Discoveries

An invention is a new form, composition of matter, device, or process. Some inventions are based on pre-existing forms, compositions, processes or ideas. Other inventions are radical breakthroughs which may extend the boundaries of human knowledge or experience.

Inventors create or discover new methods, forms, devices or other useful means. The system of patents was established to encourage inventors by granting limited-term monopoly on inventions determined to be sufficiently novel, non-obvious, and useful.

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Accidents May Happen
by Charlotte Foltz Jones, illustrated by John O'Brien
from Delacorte Press
for 4th-6th grade
in Inventions & Discoveries (Location: SCI-INV)
$5.00 (1 in stock)
Adventures of Munford: Munford Meets Robert Fulton
by Jamie Aramini
Fir from Geography Matters
for 2nd-4th grade
in Geography Matters products (Location: GEO-GEOM)
$5.00 (1 in stock)
All Aboard!
by Monica Kulling; illustrated by Bill Slavin
from Tundra Books (NY)
for Kindergarten-4th grade
in Inventions & Discoveries (Location: SCI-INV)
$8.99
Amazing Leonardo da Vinci Inventions You Can Build Yourself
by Maxine Anderson
from Nomad Press
for 4th-6th grade
in Inventions & Discoveries (Location: SCI-INV)
$7.50 (2 in stock)
Bell and the Science of the Telephone
by Brian Williams
from Barron's
for 4th-6th grade
in Inventions & Discoveries (Location: SCI-INV)
$3.50 (2 in stock)
Camera
Inventions That Shaped the World
by Trudi Strain Trueit
from Franklin Watts
in Inventions & Discoveries (Location: SCI-INV)
Champions of Invention
Champions of Discovery
by John Hudson Tiner
from Master Books
for 4th-8th grade
in Inventions & Discoveries (Location: SCI-INV)
$4.79 $3.50 (1 in stock)
Evolution of Useful Things
by Henry Petroski
from Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
for 7th-Adult
in Everyday Life in History (Location: HISV-EVERY)
$17.00
Girls Think of Everything
by Catherine Thimmesh
from Houghton Mifflin
for 3rd-4th grade
in Inventions & Discoveries (Location: SCI-INV)
$4.00 (1 in stock)
Great Wheel
by Robert Lawson
from Walker and Company
Realistic fiction for 4th-8th grade
1958 Newbery Honor Book
in Historical Fiction (Location: FIC-HIF)
$8.49 $4.80 (2 in stock)
Inventor's Times
by Dan Driscoll, James Zigarelli
from Tangerine Books
for 4th-6th grade
in Inventions & Discoveries (Location: SCI-INV)
$4.50 (1 in stock)
Inventors
by Martin W. Sandler
from HarperCollins
for 4th-6th grade
in Inventions & Discoveries (Location: SCI-INV)
$4.00 (1 in stock)
Making It Go: The Life and Work of Robert Fulton
by Don Herweck
from Teacher Created Materials, Inc.
for 4th-6th grade
in Clearance: Biographies (Location: ZCLE-BIO)
$6.29
Mistakes That Worked
by Charlotte Foltz Jones
from Delacorte Press
for 4th-6th grade
in Inventions & Discoveries (Location: SCI-INV)
$5.50 (1 in stock)
Picture History of Great Inventors
by Gillian Clements
from Beautiful Feet Books
for 2nd-6th grade
in Inventions & Discoveries (Location: SCI-INV)
$15.95
Railroad
Inventions That Shaped the World
by John Matthews
from Franklin Watts
for 4th-9th grade
in History of Railroads (Location: HISA-19TRR)
$4.00 (1 in stock)
Robotics
from Nomad Press
for 4th-6th grade
in Inventions & Discoveries (Location: SCI-INV)
$9.00 (2 in stock)
Story of Inventions
by Frank Bachman & Michael McHugh
2nd edition from Christian Liberty Press
for 6th grade
in CLP Phonics & Reading (Location: REA-CLP)
$14.50 $8.00 (2 in stock)
Story of Inventions - Set
by Frank Bachman & Michael McHugh
2nd edition from Christian Liberty Press
for 6th grade
in CLP Phonics & Reading (Location: REA-CLP)
$21.35
Thomas Edison for Kids
by Laurie Carlson
from Chicago Review Press
for 4th-6th grade
in Inventions & Discoveries (Location: SCI-INV)
$16.99
Victorian Internet
by Tom Standage
from Walker and Company
for Adult
in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS)
$6.00 (1 in stock)
We'll Race You, Henry
by Barbara Mitchell
from Carolrhoda Books, Inc.
for 3rd-5th grade
in Biographies (Location: BIO)
$3.20 (2 in stock)
Who Was Alexander Graham Bell?
Who Was?...Series
by Bonnie Bader
from Grosset & Dunlap
for 3rd-6th grade
in Who Was? biographies (Location: BIO-WHO)
$5.94
Who Was Nikola Tesla?
Who Was?...Series
by Jim Gigliotti, illustrate by John Hinderliter
from Grosset & Dunlap
for 3rd-6th grade
in Who Was? biographies (Location: BIO-WHO)
Wright Brothers
by David McCullough
Reprint from Simon & Schuster Macmillan
for 9th-Adult
in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS)
$16.99