What Am I?

By N. Dhillon

This book is packed with the power of amazing facts and information to let you surge ahead on a journey that is both fun as well as filled with knowledge.While teachers and students can use this book very effectively in school for project work, it can be also help to test each other wit and knowledge.This book gives relevant and precise information on 100 historic Inventions and Discoveries of the world.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Wisdom Tree Publishers
• Release date: May 22, 2015
• ISBN: 9788183284332

Book preview

This book can be read like a normal book. However, to make it more interesting, we have included a flap at the end. Use this flap to make a game out of the book.

Each page has four chunks of information on one place. Use the flap to show just one info block at a time, and try to identify the object or instrument first and then who made it or invented it first. The fourth clue more or less tells you the name of the object or instrument. Below the info blocks, you can see a picture connected to the object or instrument and read some more about it.

Fold the sheet to show clues as shown in the figures.

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First published 2005

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Existence or survival depends on learning to live with Nature. The early man lived a life of a nomad, wandering from place to place in search of food and shelter. Somewhere down the line, man in his attempt to understand Nature, developed the desire to invent new things or objects that would make life a bit easier. Beginning with the discovery of fire and invention of the wheel, man advanced further and today, we are witness to Space Age and Information Technology revolution. Yet, many doubts linger — ‘how’, ‘when’, ‘where’, ‘why’ and ‘what’ are frequent queries that continue to haunt the scientifically inclined. And due to rejection of theories until scientifically and physically verified, the queries and their answers become a brilliant exercise in logic, observation and experimentation.

The famous Greek scientist, Archimedes, was asked to find out what was the weight of the king’s crown that was made of pure gold. He wondered and pondered over the problem till one day, while lowering himself into the bathtub, he saw the water level rise. He leapt out and ran stark naked in the street, shouting, "Eureka! (I’ve found it"). He deduced the principle that a body in water displaced the same amount of water as its weight. Thus, it is the query ‘what ’ that has led to many a great discovery and invention. This book is meant to satisfy the curiosity of young minds on what are the many useful objects found in everyday life, what they are made of, what led to their discovery or invention. What is more, you will find answers to many other questions this 100-page book raises.

I have attempted to bring together different man-made objects based on such varied disciplines as physics, chemistry, medical science, biochemistry, etc. and used in equally varied fields like photography, arms manufacture, tailoring, preservation of food, nutrition and in other spheres of life. Hence, you will find information on thermometers, airconditioners, aspirin, writing objects, fibre optics, sewing machines, radio, contact lens, compass, gunpowder and a whole gamut of materials used in making our life so easy and convenient. Not only will this book serve as a small (small, because it is not possible to cover all the objects used in life in one such volume) treasure-house of information, it may even encourage some of the creative and scientifically inclined readers to find out what makes the world tick around us.

Nellie Dhillon