How it works book of incredible history

180 Pages·2014·18.562 MB·English

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ANCIENT HISTORY BUILDINGS & LANDMARKS WEAPONS & WAR
What were Soldiers of
velociraptors Ancient Rome
Horse
really like?
armour
explained
Flying
a WWII
How was the plane 2O5VE0R
guillotine
invented?
How did the
gramophone
work? MILLION
YEARS OF
HISTORY
Da Vinci's fl ying
machine
The biggest
prehistoric
predators
BOOK OF
Everything you need to know about the world we lived in
Inside St Mark's Who were the Trench
Basilica fearsome Celts? warfare
The American
Sherman
army tank
Cuckoo Darwin’s
clocks theories
explained
The
development
How did Native of explosives
Americans fi ght?
INDUSTRY & INVENTIONS INFLUENTIAL FIGURES PREHISTORIC

Welcome to
BOOK OF
INCREDIBLE
HISTORY
Have you ever wondered what Ancient Rome invented? What life
would have been like in the time of the dinosaurs? How
dynamite was invented? What it was like to be a Zulu warrior or a
musketeer? With current technological advancements it is easy
to forget the wars, the discoveries, the creatures and the people
that have led us to where we are today. This revised edition
celebrates the past and takes us on a journey back in time
through some of the ages, customs and traditions that shaped the
world we live in, and the lasting legacies and monuments that we
cherish to this day. Covering the ancient world, the iconic
buildings and landmarks scattered around the globe, ground-
breaking weapons and warfare, the inventions that changed the
world, the influential visionaries from the past, and prehistoric
creatures that once roamed Earth, there’s something for
everyone to learn about and enjoy. Every subject is accompanied
by stunning illustrations and marked diagrams so that you can
best understand the topic covered in perfect detail. So, turn the
page and let’s bring history to life!

BOOK OF
INCREDIBLE
HISTORY
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How It Works Book of Incredible History Volume 2 Revised Edition © 2015 Imagine Publishing Ltd
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BOOK OF
INCREDIBLE HISTORY
CONTENTS
Buildings, Places
Ancient History Weapons & War
& Landmarks
010 VI Inventions of 072 Inside a Whippet tank
Ancient Rome 038 Saint Mark’s Basilica
074 Life in the trenches
016 The Circus Maximus 040 Sagrada Familia
078 Flying a WWII plane
018 History of ice mummies 042 The Pantheon
082 The Sherman Tank
018 What are the Nazca 044 Seville Cathedral
084 Brutal battering rams
lines?
046 Florence Cathedral
085 Secrets of the Zulu
019 Making the Terracotta
048 Jerusalem under siege Warriors
Army
050 Buckingham Palace 086 Meet the musketeers
020 Ancient Egyptian
uncovered
cosmetics 088 Battle of Agincourt
054 Massachusetts State
020 Origins of chocolate House 092 The A7V
021 How sundials tell the 056 The Globe Theatre’s 094 Gunpowder
time
story 094 Horse armour
021 Horse shoeing 058 Inside a Japanese explained
022 The art of castle 095 Inside the F-4 Phantom
mummifi cation 059 The Fogong Temple II fi ghter jet
023 Britain’s tribal Pagoda 096 Jousting explained
territories
060 Brooklyn Bridge 098 How drawbridges
024 Ancient Greek theatres 062 What went wrong at worked
026 Greek tomb Chernobyl? 099 Flint weapons
construction
064 Exploring Macchu 099 Breaking the sound
027 Greek warriors Picchu barrier
028 Aztec warriors 066 How was the Sistine
Chapel’s ceiling
The Roman
029 Native American
painted?
warrior
army
068 Cardiff Castle
030 Chinese junks
010
032 The ancient Celts
Faster than
sound
099
162
Prehistoric
predators
006
068
Cardiff Castle
Industry & 124 The Sony Walkman
Invention 124 Hearing aid evolution
125 How did the fi rst
102 Inside a cotton mill electric refrigerators
work?
104 Medieval writing
equipment 126 How Leonardo da Vinci
tried to fl y
104 The fi rst hearing aids
Benjamin 105 Apothecary secrets 127 How the gramophone
worked
Franklin
105 Compass of the oceans
127 The bow drill
130
106 The origins of
helicopters 136 Da Vinci’s fl ying
machine
106 Pocket watches
explained
Infl uential
107 Meet Madame
Guillotine fi gures
107 The fi rst telephone
130 Benjamin Franklin
108 The Colossus computer
132 Isambard Kingdom
110 How dry stone walls Brunel
are built
134 Guglielmo Marconi
110 Inside metronomes
136 The Wright brothers
111 What were pneumatic
138 Tycho Brahe
tube systems used for?
140 Albert Einstein
112 The Parsons steam
turbine 142 Max Planck
114 Rack-and-pinion 144 Michael Faraday
148
railways
146 Alfred Nobel
116 Preserving the Mona
Lisa 148 Peter Higgs
Peter
118 The fi rst electric 150 Charles Darwin
Higgs submarine
118 WMahno? was the Piltdown Prehistoric Weasley
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Ancient Rome mummifi cation
Explore the six best inventions Unwrap the process of
that the Romans gave to us preserving mummies
016 023
The Circus Maximus Britain’s tribal
See the largest stadium in the territories
030
history of the Roman world Locate the native tribes of
ancient Britain
018
History of ice
024 Chinese
mummies Ancient Greek
How did these ancient theatres junks
corpses freeze in ice? Discover how these massive
amphitheatres were built
018
What are the
026 Inventions
Nazca lines? Greek tombs
Where did these Peruvian Learn about the unique Greek of Rome
ancient drawings come from? tomb structures 013
019 027
Making the Greek warriors
Terracotta Army The most feared fi ghters
Meet the immortal warriors
028
Aztec warriors
built over 2,200 years ago
Learn how these fi erce
020 Ancient Egyptian warriors fought battles
cosmetics 029
Native American
Find out why makeup was so
warrior
important in ancient Egypt
Check out the key kit of a
020 Origins of chocolate Native American fi ghter
The sacred Mayan beginnings
030
Chinese junks Ancient
021 How sundials tell Dynamic sailing at high speed
Celts
the time 032 The ancient Celts 032
How did our ancestors tell the
How the Iron Age
time of day
revolutionised the Celts
021
Horse shoeing
From the olden days we have
protected their feet – how?
Greek
tombs
026
008
Mummifi cation
022
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Native American The Terracotta
warriors Army
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Roman
theatre
009
Ancient History
Inventions of Ancient Rome
How the Romans
changed the world you live in
Perhaps the greatest of all the ancient One of the most remarkable traits of all networks like the Cloaca Maxima. They were
civilisations, the Roman Empire though, was the ability for the Romans to work also famously profi cient at town planning and
represented the age of classical all their schemes and inventions into fully building large structures.
antiquity and helped create the world we live in functioning cities within an extensive empire. Home life was revolutionised under the
today. The massive engineering projects that Rome itself was a bustling metropolis that no Romans. Also, as is well known, the army was
were undertaken and the advances in medicine other civilisation matched in prosperity and an all-conquering juggernaut that took the old
and society ensure Roman infl uence can still be size for centuries afterward. Nowhere else in world by storm. To commemorate their affect on
felt now. For example, concrete and cement the ancient world had grand shopping centres modern society and technology, we discover
were fi rst popularised in Ancient Rome, as was like Trajan’s Market, specialised landfi ll sites just how innovative and ground-breaking this
a type of central heating known as a hypocaust. such as Monte Testaccio or extensive sewer civilisation really was.
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