Inventions From The Shed - Jim Hopkins
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Used Good, book/pages a bit wavy, spine corner bumped (see photo)
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Dimensions: 189 x 245 x 9mm
Publication Date: 2000
Inventions From The Shed by Jim Hopkins, Photography by Julie Riley
When Jim Hopkins and Julie Riley were working on their bestselling book, Blokes and Sheds, they discovered that Kiwi blokes were creating some amazing things in their sheds. This new book describes more than 100 original inventions from sheds throughout New Zealand.
Ask most people to describe their impression of an inventor and they'll come up with a bloke who's a cross between Albert Einstein, Dr Who and the Nutty Professor. The reality is that inventors are as diverse as their inventions, and Inventions from the Shed has them all, from a porridge stirrer to a paper-powered car, from a safety rake to a shearing table, from a rod holder to a revolutionary rotor. Jim Hopkins uncovers these and many more inventions, some high-tech, some low-tech, all products of Kiwi ingenuity. Julie Riley's photographs once again demonstrate the best New Zealand sheddies have to offer.
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