Hooper, Meredith:
Everyday Inventions.
Angus and Robertson, 1976 Hard cover, glazed pictorial bds, fading at spine and at top edges, Good, no dust jacket, contents clean and tight, very occassional light age spot, illustrated in black/orange and also b/w plates, pp128. Includes such inventions as: the wheelbarrow, nails, locks and keys, forks, spectacles, false teeth, lightning conductors, umbrellas, rubber, chewing gum, corrugated iron, barbed wire, lifts, skyscrapers, dynamite, penicillin, coca-cola, the zipper etc...
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