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How People Build Amazing Things: A Story About Discovery, Flying, and Reaching the Moon

How People Build Amazing Things: A Story About Discovery, Flying, and Reaching the Moon

Learning, Axi

Paperback

Series: Little Philosophers, Book 3

BiographyGeneral Juvenile NonfictionScience & Nature

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ISBN13: 9798190294170
Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 88
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.18 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.00
Language: English
How did people learn to fly, glow in the dark, and land on the Moon? By going back to the beginning.
Axi is back - and this time the big questions are about building, creating, and solving problems no one had ever solved before. In three time-travel adventures, curious kids meet three of history's boldest thinkers and discover the method behind every great invention - First Principles Thinking: instead of copying what others did, you go back to the beginning and figure out what MUST be true.
  • Marie Curie works in a tiny, leaky shed and refuses to accept what other scientists assumed - measuring everything herself until a mysterious glow changes science forever.
  • The Wright Brothers ignore everyone else's failed flying machines, study the birds instead, and test 200 wing shapes to lift humans into the sky.
  • Margaret Hamilton and the Apollo team break an impossible problem into small, solvable pieces - and put people on the Moon.
Along the way, young readers learn The Builder's Three Rules: follow the mystery, try-fail-learn-repeat, and break big problems down and work together.

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