Modern Marvels: Inventions That Rocked the World

The History Channel Presents

by Jane B. Mason, Sarah Hines Stephens

The automobile. The microscope. The Internet. Without these amazing inventions, our lives would be totally different. But how did these cool creations come to be? And who were the inventors that dreamed them up?

Go behind the scenes of history and learn the truth about the gadgets and tools that changed the world.

Packed with quizzes, photos, and zillions of wacky facts, this chronicle of jaw-dropping discoveries might even inspire you to invent something of your own!

80 pages, Paperback

Published May 1, 2004

About the author

Jane B. Mason grew up in a large family in northern Minnesota. She has written books for kids of all ages under many names and on many subjects, among them ghosts, Jedi, detective duos, princesses, twins, mean girls, and slam books.

Jane has lived in the midwest and on both coasts, but appears to have settled in Oakland, California, and writes almost every day at either a friend's dining room table or a little studio in her back yard, where she has a purple loveseat, a whole lotta books, and an odd selection of trinkets she has unwittingly been collecting since she was a child.