Everyone knows that Thomas Edison was the inventor of the electric light bulb and Alexander Graham Bell of the telephone. Only they were not!

In this book, you will find stories of the monk who flew 900 years before the Wright brothers and the scientist who won the Nobel Prize because he neglected to clean his laboratory. You will be amazed by the emergence of all kinds of things, from Teflon and Velcro to the bra and the paperclip.

You will see how a fake death ray led to the invention of radar and how the modern computer was born in a roadside bar. One hundred captivating stories about great personalities, some famous and others forgotten, and many Eureka! moments that changed our world forever!

[Excerpt from the text on the back cover of the edition]