The Science Museum Book of Amazing Facts: Inventions

Beverley Birch

Hodder and Stoughton
PB ISBN 0-340-65697-2

The inventors of the first robot were put on trial for witchcraft.

In the 1700s, dead men's teeth, taken from skulls in graveyards and battlefields, were used as false teeth.

The first electric light bulbs needed a health warning: 'Do not try and light with a match'

The first working television was made from a knitting needle, the lid of a hatbox, an electric motor fan, and torch batteries, all put together on top of an old tea-chest.

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