Science Comics: Robots and Drones

I think Gur (my youngest) is the one who chose the book on a visit to our public library.

 Each of the children chose two books and we went home. 

We began reading and quickly I realized that we had discovered a treasure!

Gur was still quite young, so he naturally started flipping the pages quickly sometimes skipping some of them completely, interested mainly in the pictures. 

As for me, I got totally engaged in the explanations and found myself really insisting he let me finish reading each page. 

So many great and unfamiliar things were jumping out at me from every page I felt I couldn’t let myself miss out on anything.

The book walks the readers through significant inventions and milestones humanity has passed on its way toward the creation of today's robots and those that will proceed us. 

I must admit- this is not something I would have suspected that could interest me. However, the journey goes through so many fascinating playful inventions that just made me feel I want to run off, play, and explore some more. 

Inventions like a steam-powered flying wooden bird, amusing weight-sensitive water fountains, dolls that serve coffee, and many more exciting playful inventions. 

You also get familiar with interesting inventors in various periods in history, and in different places around the world, and get a simple, clear and thought-provoking explanation of the difference between a robots and “plain” machines. 

In addition to all these, the story is told as a cute and rather entertaining comics story. 

Since I could no longer wait for my turn in the book and was really bummed when it was time to return it to the library, I had no choice but to buy it. Since then, I have had a bit of an argument with Gur, as to whose shelf the book should stand on.

Now what?

All this enlightenment set me off on an online journey of my own, in search of more elaborate stories about each of the creations and creators mentioned in the book.

Unfortunately, although quite understandable, most of them cannot be found today, but the ones that have, are very interesting and I will tell you all about them in future posts. 

Oh Tegosh, How do I get hold of the book? 

The first possibility is obviously borrowing it from your public library. 

If however, you wish to have your own copy, I found links for online purchasing on Amazon, and Macmillan Publishing for example, but I believe there are many more physical and online stores. 

Science comics, robots, and drones. By Margaret Scott and Jacob Shabo, Crown Publishing 

Can’t wait for you to read it so we can share thoughts.