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THE WORLD’S FIRST ROLLERCOASTER: AND OTHER AMAZING INVENTIONS

LAUGH AND LEARN WITH THESE COMIC-STRIP HISTORIES

AUTHOR MIKE BARFIELD

ILLUSTRATOR FRANZISKA HÖLLBACHER

PUBLISHER TEMPLAR PUBLISHING

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You can’t go wrong with cool facts and funny comic strips, so author and illustrator dream team Mike Barfield and Franziska Höllbacher are off to a pretty good start with . It charts the greatest inventions from the last century or so – and when we say ‘greatest’, we don’t necessarily mean the inventions that have significantly furthered our species. In fact, fun inventions like the rollercoaster, the hamburger, skateboards and video games take

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