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Dylan Thuras, Jennifer Swanson, illustrated by Ruby Fresson
The Atlas Obscura Explorer’s Guide to Inventing the World is an illustrated middle-grade nonfiction book that traces 50 inventions and scientific discoveries across places and periods, showing how one technology can lead to the next.
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