Build a Better Mousetrap: Make Classic Inventions, Discover Your Problem Solving Genius, and Take the Inventor's Challenge

by Ruth Kassinger

Book Overview

Discover the secrets behind some amazing inventions

Through observation, experimentation, and perseverance, humansthrough the ages have managed to solve a whole array of perplexingproblems. These solutions have included such incredible inventionsas the parachute, the periscope, the solar water heater, thesuspension bridge, the stethoscope, and many more. Now, with Builda Better Mousetrap in hand, you too can experience your own Eureka moments...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0471395382
• ISBN13: 9780471395386
• Release Date: August 2002
• Publisher: Wiley
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.5" x 11.1"
• Age Range: 8 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 7

Customer Reviews

GREAT!

This book was really great--it's very similar to Reinvent the Wheel but has all new projects. You get the same good mix of history and hands-on science. My sisters and I had a lot of fun building the inventions!