Accidents may happen

Title
Accidents may happen

Personal Author EPSB
Charlotte Foltz. Jones

Summary
Describes how a wide variety of things such as nursery rhymes, the national anthem, anesthesia, cellophane, raisins, and dynamite came into being.

Other Title
Subtitle on cover: Fifty inventions discovered by mistake

Year Published
1996

Physical Description
viii, 86 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.

Note (Local)
Regular
 
1-New

Program Information
Accelerated Reader MG 6.9 2.0 86356

Subject
Technological innovations.
 
Discoveries in science.
 
Modern history -- Miscellanea.
 
History, Modern -- Miscellanea.
 
Technological innovations -- History.
 
Discoveries (in science) -- History.

Added Author
O'Brien, John, 1953-

Summary
Describes how a wide variety of things such as nursery rhymes, the national anthem, anesthesia, cellophane, raisins, and dynamite came into being.

ISBN
9780385321624

Publisher
New York, N.Y. : Delacorte Press, c1996.


LibraryCall NumberTypeItem BarcodeStatus
Bisset608 JONBook30276000161109Non-Fiction