Title of Book : The Story of Toilets, Telephones & other useful inventions

Author’s Name : Katie Daynes

ISBN Number : 978074607929-4

Book Cover Reviews

This was a really great books for students interested in inventions, particularly funny ones
such as the telephones, toilets. Along with the title of books are some really fun illustrations,
with funny captions. This can increase the readers’ motivation to read the books.

Author’s background
Katie studied languages at Cambridge University and soon discovered it wasn’t just French
or Italian she loved, but language itself. Her first job was writing reviews of curry houses in
verse. Her second was writing science and business articles. Her third and favourite job is
writing educational books for children. She loves tackling new subjects and making them
come alive for young readers. So far she has written about everything from trucks and toilets
to space and Churchill. Katie now has two little children of her own and they are definitely
her fiercest critics.

Book Review

An amusing and informative history of the toilet, from cavemen's holes in the ground to
Thomas Crapper's flushing toilet. Long times ago, people didn’t even have a house and
toilets. They spent their times for hunting animals, collecting some fruits and vegetables. The
story of toilets: At first, a toilet was only a hole in the ground, when the hole filled up then
they covered it with mud and dug another. The ancient of Romans placed a long stone slab
with holes over a deep trench and water flowed through the trench and washed everything.
While some of the rich man in Romans use a silver pot to filled it. The chamber pot brings a
lot of convenient for the people but the people empty the pot by pour it out of the window.
This causes the smells on the street was disgusting. The problems was finally solved by
laying pipes and drains underground. At that times many plumbers worked hard to make
improvement on the toilets design and finally it becomes the toilets we have now. The story
of telephones: Alexander realized that notes can be travel through air when he played a
chord on piano. He hoped that he could send speech from one place to another. In those
day the first quickest way to send a message is through telegraph, then the second is
mouthpiece and earpiece then began the life of phone. The first phones needed operator to
connect the people, then automatic switchboards were invented to replace the operator.
Early phones had a handle, boxes, candlestick-shaped speaker and the cradle phone.
Today everyone has own mobiles phones. Besides toilets, telephones, there are still a lot of
useful invention by our ancestor in those times. For example, refrigerator, wheel, pen, bar
codes and others, all of these inventions bring us a lot of convenient in our daily life and we
should use them wisely and be grateful for what we have now.

Explicit and Implicit Messages

Through the story, we can know that a lot of useful inventions were create in those times by
our ancestor and they have tried a lot of times until they success. It is not easy to create
something that is needed in our daily life. The author also tried to convey to the readers
about we should not take anything for granted. We should be grateful because of our
ancestors so our life becomes much more easier than years ago. Through the story we knew
that the life before the inventions of mobile phone is very tough, it takes up a lot of times and
effort to deliver a message, so the author tried to bring out that we must use the inventions
for an useful purpose.

Conclusion
We must appreciate what we have now and always we must always feel grateful of today’s
life. This is because there is lot of inventions that had make our life becomes easy and
convenient so use it wisely and appropriately in our daily life.

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