Meet the Great Inventors

By Abraham Anderson and Tanguy Depecker

World-changing inventions have revolutionized the way we live our lives today. In the past 300 years, mankind's ingenuity has seen the human race leap through the Industrial Revolution and soar into a scientific era of breakthroughs and discoveries. Radio, central heating, toilets - these are but some of the countless inventions that have transf

• Language: English
• Publisher: Legend Books Sp. z o.o.
• Release date: Feb 16, 2024
• ISBN: 9788367583596

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Illustrated by Tanguy Depecker

Meet the Great Inventors

by AJ Anderson. Art by Tanguy Depecker

World-changing inventions have revolutionized the way we live our lives today. In the past 300 years, mankind’s ingenuity has seen the human race leap through the Industrial Revolution and soar into a scientific era of breakthroughs and discovery. Radio, central heating, toilets — these are but some of the countless inventions that have transformed our lives today.

Who made these discoveries? And what led them to their breakthroughs? Meet the brilliant, eccentric, and occasionally erratic minds behind these inventions that show you don’t need to be the smartest person in the room — just the most passionate!

Percy Spencer (Microwave)

Born: 19 July 1894, Howland, Maine, USA

Died: 8 September 1970, Newton, Massachusetts, USA

An orphaned farm boy who never completed grammar school, Percy Spencer went on to become one of the world’s most successful and respected electrical engineers. Spencer had an itch to learn, and, having received no formal teaching, resolved to teach himself. At the age of 18, Spencer joined the US Navy and soon taught himself to be an expert on radio technology. He studied everything he could, from trigonometry and calculus to chemistry and physics. By the start of World War Two, Spencer had become a world-leading expert on radar and had begun working on radar equipment for the war. It was then, while studying magnetrons, that Spencer noticed the microwaves were melting the chocolate in his pocket. Researching into this phenomenon, Spencer created the world’s first microwave.

"He had a reputation for thinking outside the box. He was