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48 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), ports RA 9.5-10 Contains 2 poems as well as factual information Contents: Module 1. Great inventions from the past. Early inventions -- The boomerang event -- Famous inventors -- Wacky inventions -- Module 2. Inventions that help us. The compact disc -- The Ford way -- Money, then and now -- How do robots keep people safe? -- Robot surgery -- Module 3. Inventions now and in the future. The black box -- Robots -- How to take out a patent -- Keeping in touch -- Google -- Regular features. Making a helicopter -- Robot poems -- The all-new sluggo electro-control fence -- Funtastic inventions