200 Fun Facts About Inventions & Inventors For Kids

Description

A chef invented potato chips purely out of spite. An 11-year-old left a drink on a cold porch and forgot about it. A scientist noticed his candy bar melting in his pocket. All three changed the world by accident.

Most kids think inventors are serious people in clean white coats who never mess up.

That story makes invention feel impossible.

It also happens to be completely wrong.

200 Fun Facts About Inventions & Inventors For Kids by Jonah Mullen tears that myth apart, chapter by chapter, with the real stories: loud, messy, sometimes explosive, and always surprising.

Inside, you’ll discover:

✔ The grumpy chef who invented potato chips to get revenge on a picky customer and why his petty moment became one of Earth’s most popular snacks
✔ Why Super Glue was considered a failure for years before anyone figured out what it was actually good for
✔ The moldy petri dish a scientist almost threw away — and how his laziness ended up saving hundreds of millions of lives
✔ What a spring falling off a shipyard shelf has to do with the toy sitting in your living room right now
✔ The bitter two-man war over electricity that decided how every lightbulb on the planet gets powered
✔ A final chapter that hands you a real framework for turning your own daily annoyances into actual inventions

This book is for the kid who gets excited when an experiment goes sideways and for any adult who wants to hand that kid a reason to keep going. It is not for anyone looking for dry timelines or names to memorize.

Every accidental genius in this book started exactly where you are.

Grab your copy now and find out what happens next.