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Includes drawings of unusual inventions submitted to the patent office with clues to aid the reader in guessing the purpose of each invention.

Hardcover:

9781616084752, titled "Weird & Wacky Inventions" | Sky Pony Pr, September 1, 2011, cover price $12.95
9780517533185, titled "Weird & Wacky Inventions" | Random House Childrens Books, July 1, 1978, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Includes drawings of unusual inventions submitted to the patent office with clues to aid the reader in guessing the purpose of each invention.

Paperback:

9781634502030 | Reprint edition (Sky Pony Pr, February 16, 2016), cover price $9.99

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By Time for Kids (corporate author)

Paperback:

9781618933928 | Time for Kids, May 5, 2015, cover price $4.99

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Product Description: Loads of quirky, cool, and astonishing facts about some of the world's greatest inventions.

Library:

9781614734154 | The Childs World Inc, January 1, 2013, cover price $28.50 | About this edition: Loads of quirky, cool, and astonishing facts about some of the world's greatest inventions.

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Hardcover:

9780753468005 | 1 edition (Kingfisher, September 4, 2012), cover price $15.99

Paperback:

9780753468012 | Kingfisher, September 4, 2012, cover price $6.99

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9780137057382, titled "Curious Folks Ask: 162 Real Answers on Amazing Inventions, Fascinating Products, and Medical Mysteries" | 1 edition (Financial Times Management, February 14, 2010), cover price $19.99

Questions and answers explore the world of inventions, explaining the creation of the radio, toothpaste, and other modern necessities

Hardcover:

9780765106889 | Har/com edition (Smithmark Pub, March 1, 1998), cover price $14.98
9780809494545 | Time Life Education, January 1, 1994, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Questions and answers explore the world of inventions, explaining the creation of the radio, toothpaste, and other modern necessities

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9781557342324 | Teacher Created Resources, September 1, 1992, cover price $9.99 | About this edition: Inventions Thematic Unit is based on the following pieces of literature: Steven Caney's Invention Book, Ben and Me, Mistakes That Worked.
9780843142624 | Price Stern Sloan, June 1, 1984, cover price $2.95
9780911605013 | Avalon Hill Co, June 1, 1983, cover price $3.95 | About this edition: Book by

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Product Description: Kids get the answers to their favorite question, ?why?? in this fun and informative machine-themed trivia book. Includes color illustrations, and index. 32 pages.
By Mason Crest Publishers (corporate author)

Library:

9781422215807 | Mason Crest, September 15, 2009, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Kids get the answers to their favorite question, ?

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Product Description: This book is based on the cult website Patently Silly, (www.patentlysilly.com) which receives over 60,000 visits per month and has received wide-ranging publicity the world over.  It is written from the unique perspective of a stand-up comic with a college degree in engineering...read more

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9781599215730 | Lyons Pr, May 5, 2009, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: This book is based on the cult website Patently Silly, (www.

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Product Description: Strange and unusual new products that might be great to have -- and how to get your hands on them. Our lives are just a bit too crazy these days. It's multitasking all around. We try to find ways to escape and ease the stress -- if only for a little while...read more

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9781554074266 | Firefly Books Ltd, September 12, 2008, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Strange and unusual new products that might be great to have -- and how to get your hands on them.

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Product Description: Would you like to have your leg chopped off without anesthetic? Or attend a party with no music? Or brush your teeth with a stick? The odds are, probably not.Perhaps it's time you marveled at the sheer brilliance of inventions. How did we ever end up with:Morse code? X-rays? Toilet paper?In this book, you will discover 101 of the most interesting, most dangerous, and most unnecessary inventions out there...read more

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9780802797889 | Walker & Co, August 19, 2008, cover price $11.99 | About this edition: Would you like to have your leg chopped off without anesthetic?

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Product Description: Aimed at 10- to 14-year-olds this book contains information on inventions. It answers such questions as why people become inventors and how they work. There are discussions about edible and wearable inventions and inventions that have changed the world.

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9781553374039 | Kids Can Pr, February 1, 2003, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Provides readers with answers to commonly asked questions about inventions such as blue jeans, television, chewing gum, money, computers, and eating utensils.

Paperback:

9781553374046 | Kids Can Pr, February 1, 2003, cover price $6.95 | About this edition: Provides readers with answers to commonly asked questions about inventions such as blue jeans, television, chewing gum, money, computers, and eating utensils.

School and Library:

9780130237064 | Simon & Schuster, June 1, 1988, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Examines the inventive process, how inventors work, and some important inventions and their impact on civilization.

Reinforced:

9780606275293 | Demco Media, March 1, 2003, cover price $15.80 | About this edition: Why do people invent?

Prebinding:

9781439543481 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, August 11, 2008), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Aimed at 10- to 14-year-olds this book contains information on inventions.
9780613849678 | Turtleback Books, March 1, 2003, cover price $17.15 | About this edition: Provides readers with answers to commonly asked questions about inventions such as blue jeans, television, chewing gum, money, computers, and eating utensils.

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Looks at a variety of experiments that resulted in inventions that helped make life easier.

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9781406205640 | New edition (Gardners Books, October 9, 2007), cover price $15.20
9781410923844 | Not Applicable, October 25, 2006, cover price $9.49 | About this edition: Looks at a variety of experiments that resulted in inventions that helped make life easier.

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9781410923790 | Heinemann/Raintree, October 25, 2006, cover price $33.99 | About this edition: Looks at a variety of experiments that resulted in inventions that helped make life easier.

Answers questions about inventions and innovations related to farming, construction, energy, manufacturing, transportation, navigation, space, weapons, medicine, time, communications, and entertainment.

Hardcover:

9781405494625 | Parragon Inc, October 1, 2007, cover price $12.99 | About this edition: Answers questions about inventions and innovations related to farming, construction, energy, manufacturing, transportation, navigation, space, weapons, medicine, time, communications, and entertainment.

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The roboticist-author of How to Survive a Robot Uprising offers a whimsical look at the science behind the great inventions and technology that still do not exist, covering everything from teleportation to self-contained skycraper cities, hoverboards, and moon colonies. Simultaneous.

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9781596911369 | Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA, April 17, 2007, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Offers a whimsical look at the science behind the great inventions and technology promised in science fiction films and literature that still do not exist, covering everything from food pills and moon colonies to hoverboards and robot servants.

CD/Spoken Word:

9780786171606 | Mp3 una edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, May 1, 2007), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Offers a whimsical look at the science behind the great inventions and technology that still do not exist, covering everything from teleportation to self-contained skyscraper cities, hoverboards, and moon colonies.
9780786160822 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, April 17, 2007), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Offers a whimsical look at the science behind the great inventions and technology that still do not exist, covering everything from teleportation to self-contained skyscraper cities, hoverboards, and moon colonies.

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780786148707 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, April 17, 2007), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Offers a whimsical look at the science behind the great inventions and technology that still do not exist, covering everything from teleportation to self-contained skyscraper cities, hoverboards, and moon colonies.

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A humorous volume of more than forty true stories recounts the resourceful innovations of people who used science and ingenuity to resolve tricky situations, from a person who used breakfast cereal to provide traction in an icy parking lot to an individual who saved a relationship by using a strategic turn of phrase. Reprint.

Hardcover:

9781594630248 | Hudson st Pr, October 19, 2006, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: A humorous volume of forty-five true stories recounts the resourceful innovations of people who used science and ingenuity to resolve tricky situations, from a person who used breakfast cereal to provide traction in an icy parking lot to an individual who saved a relationship by using a strategic turn of phrase.

Paperback:

9780452289291 | Reprint edition (Plume, December 18, 2007), cover price $14.00 | About this edition: A humorous volume of forty-five true stories recounts the resourceful innovations of people who used science and ingenuity to resolve tricky situations, including a person who used breakfast cereal to provide traction in an icy parking lot.

CD/Spoken Word:

9781400152889 | Mp3 una edition (Tantor Media Inc, November 14, 2006), cover price $19.99 | About this edition: Recounts the resourceful innovations of people who used science and ingenuity to resolve tricky situations, from a person who used breakfast cereal to provide traction in an icy parking lot to an individual who saved a relationship by using a strategic turn of phrase.
9781400102884 | Unabridged edition (Tantor Media Inc, November 14, 2006), cover price $29.99 | About this edition: Recounts the resourceful innovations of people who used science and ingenuity to resolve tricky situations, from a person who used breakfast cereal to provide traction in an icy parking lot to an individual who saved a relationship by using a strategic turn of phrase.

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Recounts the resourceful innovations of people who used science and ingenuity to resolve tricky situations, from a person who used breakfast cereal to provide traction in an icy parking lot to an individual who saved a relationship by using a strategic turn of phrase.
By Shelly Frasier (narrator), Patrick Lawlor (narrator) and Brendan Vaughan

CD/Spoken Word:

9781400132881 | Unabridged edition (Tantor Media Inc, November 14, 2006), cover price $59.99 | About this edition: Recounts the resourceful innovations of people who used science and ingenuity to resolve tricky situations, from a person who used breakfast cereal to provide traction in an icy parking lot to an individual who saved a relationship by using a strategic turn of phrase.

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Product Description: Imagine that your house spans six by nine feet, your mattress is just two inches thick, you are known to your neighbors by an identification number, and items most consider crucial to everyday existence are outlawed. How do inmates in prisons like this throughout the United States make such lives bearable? In 2001, the artists' collective Temporary Services asked an incarcerated artist named Angelo to share with them the ways in which inmates adapt to their confinement...read more

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9780945323020 | Whitewalls Inc, October 30, 2005, cover price $12.00 | About this edition: Imagine that your house spans six by nine feet, your mattress is just two inches thick, you are known to your neighbors by an identification number, and items most consider crucial to everyday existence are outlawed.

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Product Description: INVENTION MYSTERIES tells the little-known stories behind well-known inventions.
By Kevin Cordtz (illustrator) and Paul Niemann

Paperback:

9780974804101 | Horsefeathers Pub Co, November 30, 2004, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: INVENTION MYSTERIES tells the little-known stories behind well-known inventions.

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Answers a wide variety of questions about the invention of common household items.

Hardcover:

9781856976701, titled "I Wonder Why Zippers Have Teeth: And Other Questions About Inventions" | Kingfisher Books, April 15, 1996, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: Answers a wide variety of questions about the invention of common household items
9781856976886, titled "I Wonder Why Zippers Have Teeth: And Other Questions About Inventions" | Kingfisher Books, April 1, 1996, cover price $9.90 | About this edition: Answers a wide variety of questions about the invention of common household items

Paperback:

9780753456651, titled "I Wonder Why Zippers Have Teeth: And Other Questions About Inventions" | Reissue edition (Kingfisher, August 22, 2003), cover price $6.95 | About this edition: Answers a wide variety of questions about the invention of common household items.
9781856976916 | Kingfisher, June 1, 1995, cover price $10.01 | About this edition: Answers a wide variety of questions about the invention of common household items

Reinforced:

9780606310352, titled "I Wonder Why Zippers Have Teeth: And Other Questions About Inventions" | Demco Media, September 30, 2004, cover price $14.70 | About this edition: Answers a wide variety of questions about the invention of common household items.

Prebinding:

9780613969635 | Turtleback Books, August 1, 2003, cover price $17.15 | About this edition: Answers a wide variety of questions about the invention of common household items.

Presents descriptions of the strangest inventions from the 1800s to the present, such as the robotic suitcase carrier, a surfboard that makes its own waves, and a silent car horn.

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9780606258456, titled "World's Weirdest Gadgets" | Demco Media, December 1, 2002, cover price $13.14 | About this edition: Presents descriptions of the strangest inventions from the 1800s to the present, such as the robotic suitcase carrier, a surfboard that makes its own waves, and a silent car horn.

Prebinding:

9780613832861 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 2002, cover price $12.70 | About this edition: Presents descriptions of the strangest inventions from the 1800s to the present, such as the robotic suitcase carrier, a surfboard that makes its own waves, and a silent car horn.

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