Customer Reviews

`Evil Inventions is buzzing with brilliant brainwaves!' - By: Amazon Reviewer, 25 Mar 2007
`....in this book we'll be exploring the weird, wacky world of inventions - including the incredibly exciting & incredibly idiotic thingies that people dream up.
And since this book is called `Evil Inventions`, we won't be scared to look at the nasty side of inventing - the cruel contraptions & murderous machines.
In fact you might end up wondering if some inventions should ever have been invented. Or then again, you might find evil inventions horribly fascinating.....'

A colourful, humorous cover opens to 127 pages, split over 15 chapters:-

Introduction
How to be an incredible inventor
Awful advertisements 1
A terrifying time tour
Barmy bikes & cruel contraptions
Staggering steam trains
Awful advertisements 2
Sinking subs (and other sea & air inventions)
Crazy cars
Extreme electrical inventions
Awful advertisements 3
Rotten radio & terrible TV
Clever computers
The atom bomb
Epilogue - not so evil inventions

Writtenin a variety of fontsin the usual Nick Arnold entertaining style.
Black & white illustrations, from Tony de Saulles, throughout as well as fantastic fact files, quirky quizzes & crazy cartoons.

'Science has never been so horrible!'