INVENTORS AND INVENTIONS LOUIS HILL ET AL Book Number: 78642 Product format: Hardback If you remove the back of your mobile phone you will find an unassuming block that is hardly exciting to the eye. It is this, the Lithium-ion battery, which has driven the incredible advances in electronics in the past decade and is now powering more and more road vehicles and other crucial applications. The Li-ion battery is a classic tale of invention and the man who invented it, Michael Whittingham. This exceptional book picks some of the world's most important inventions and those involved in their invention - be it a single person in a single brainwave or a number of people over a period of time during which other factors have a major effect on that invention, maybe even its overall viability. Divided into eight chapters: Early Inventions, Domestic, Entertainment, Engineering and Transport, Medicine, Warfare, Exploration and Agriculture and Food, we look at 150 innovative ideas which have had a lasting effect on human society. From numbering systems, money and alphabets, through the light bulb, refrigeration, soap, the zip, photography, TV, the electric guitar, pencil, typewriter, paper, the Internet, GPS, ball bearings, bicycles, roads, aeroplane, cement, vaccination, false teeth, machine guns, atom bombs, maps and telescopes to combine harvesters and animal husbandry, even Viagra, perfume and the Swiss army knife, this is an endlessly fascinating and surprising read. Colour and b/w photos, diagrams, 240pp, 9¼"×11¼". Published price: £24.95 Bibliophile price: £10.00