Genius Communication Inventions

From Morse Code to the Internet

From the Series Incredible Inventions

  • Interest Level: Grade 3 - Grade 6
  • Reading Level: Grade 4

Printing words in books originated in China with the invention of movable type. But books aren’t the only way we’ve communicated throughout history. Find out who invented the first radio, which complicated code took 267 years to crack, and how cloth weaving inspired computer programs. Fact-packed text and fun illustrations reveal wacky inventions (a machine that translates your dog’s barks!) and wayward predictions (the Internet was supposed to collapse in 1996). Learn more about the methods and machines people have used to communicate—from cave paintings and the earliest written alphabets to TVs and computers.

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978-1-5124-7098-7
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Interest Level Grade 3 - Grade 6
Reading Level Grade 4
Genre Science
Category 5 Kinds of Nonfiction, 5KN: Browseable Nonfiction, STEM, STEM: Engineering
Copyright 2018
Publisher Lerner Publishing Group
Brand Hungry Tomato ®
Imprint Hungry Tomato ®
Language English
Number of Pages 32
Publication Date 2017-08-01
Reading Counts! Level 8.4
Text Type Informational/Explanatory
BISACS JNF061010, JNF012000
Dewey 609
Graphics Full-color illustrations
Dimensions 7 x 9
Lexile 990
Guided Reading Level X
Features Bibliography/further reading, Glossary, Index, and Table of contents

Author: Matt Turner

Illustrator: Sarah Conner