Incredible Inventions: Let's Communicate - From the First Written Word to the Internet

Printing words (so you can read this book, for instance) originated with the Chinese. But first, alphabets had to be created. Follow this and many other stories about the methods and machines we use to communicate by signals, code and telephone, radio, TV and computer. You'll find out

- who really invented the telephone
- which code took 267 years to crack
- the inventor of TV built his early machines from junk (it's all he had)
- the idea for the computer program came from cloth weaving

and so much more, all presented in lively text and humorous illustrations. And there are wacky inventions (like the machine that translates your dog's barks), and wayward predictions - um, the end of the Internet was going to happen in 1996... (The guy ate his words, literally.)