The Picture History of Great
Inventors by Gillian Clements
Leoando
An entertaining and well-researched introduction to the great inventors of
the world, this book contains facts, both serious and comic. Spanning a
period of thousands of years — from the unknown inventor of the wheel to
the research teams at work today on space and computer technology —
author Gillian Clements presents a splendid celebration of the ingenuity of
people throughout history. Young readers learn about the motivations,
struggles, and achievements of such inventors as Leonardo da Vinci, Isaac
Newton, Benjamin Franklin, Alfred Nobel, Thomas Edison, Alexander
Graham Bell, Orville Wright, Albert Einstein, and many more.
Personal Review: The Picture History of Great Inventors by
Gillian Clements
This is a fantastic book. I have the softcover edition. We got this
because we were talking about Thomas Edison and reading the Edison

Childhoods of Famous Americans book. This is an excellent tie-in, and so
much more.
The pages are high-quality paper, and each inventor gets a page (some
get a two-page spread). You get historical context for the time period the
inventor was living -- there is an illustrated timeline at the bottom of the
pages. Then you get a large section of text and many, many illustrations
of the inventions and ideas of the inventors. The detail is excellent, and
the information on each inventor is very rich. There are all the inventors I
would expect, and plenty of people whose inventions are great but whom I
had never studied. So new information, TONS of information, and fun
facts and trivia. This is truly a dynamite book.
The book is chronological and it includes a table of contents, an 8-page
illustrated glossary at the back, an index, and three synopsis pages -- one
each for the seventies, the eighties, and the nineties. The seventies page
shows the floppy disk, microchip, the Sony Walkman, the compact disk,
the maglev train, MIT and Apple and personal computing, LCDs, space
innovations, fiber optic cables, pocket calculators, VCRs, bar codes, the
Sears Tower, and historical context. It's amazing.
Its style reminds me of some of Lynne Cheney's books -- the excellence of
the illustrations and all the information packed on the pages. Each page is
like an illustrated biography, with so much information packed in and made
clear. I really can't praise it highly enough. It took us over an hour to
absorb the page on Thomas Edison. We just kept learning more and
more.
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