The Story of an Invention. Bilingual Chinese-English Edition

Author: [US] A. Roger Merrill
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Publish Date: 2006-01-01
Features: When you think of inventions, you might immediately think of airplanes, trains, but this book is about the basic inventions: a piece of clothing, a rope, a bridge, a bowl, and other things that seem extremely simple today, at first were not easy to invent. Ordinary animals also have simple "inventions," but human inventions are vastly different from theirs. Under the harsh pressure of the environment, humans make the most of their brains, gradually learning to expand the power hidden in their body organs—hands, feet, mouths, eyes, ears, etc. For example, using sticks to extend the power of the hands, using wheels to enhance the function of the feet, and using flying machines to lift the human body into the air. These inventions are actually extensions of the human body. From finding a piece of animal hide and a cave for shelter, to building houses and inventing various machines, how did humans create these miracles? Mr. Merrill tells the secrets of human inventions with his magic pen. The concise and elegant English and the faithful and smooth Chinese translation, coupled with the illustrations drawn by Mr. Merrill himself, will bring you endless joy in reading. We are neither slaves nor masters. We enhance the abilities of our hands, feet, eyes, and ears to gain freedom. We create inanimate objects to serve us, but suddenly find ourselves constrained by them. But this doesn’t mean we shouldn’t have tried to enhance our abilities before. It only means we haven’t enhanced them enough yet. – Mr. Merrill
The book is divided into 8 chapters, including "Man, the Inventor," "From Animal Hide to Skyscrapers," "Taming Nature with Hands," "From Feet to Aircraft," "Various Kinds of Mouths," and more.