How to Invent Everything is such a cool book. It's essential reading for anyone who needs to
duplicate an industrial civilization quickly. --Randall Munroe xkcd creator and New York
Times-bestselling author of What If? The only book you need if you're going back in timeWhat
would you do if a time machine hurled you thousands of years into the past. . . and then broke?
How would you survive? Could you improve on humanity's original timeline? And how hard would it
be to domesticate a giant wombat? With this book as your guide you'll survive--and thrive--in
any period in Earth's history. Bestselling author and time-travel enthusiast Ryan North shows
you how to invent all the modern conveniences we take for granted--from first principles. This
illustrated manual contains all the science engineering art philosophy facts and figures
required for even the most clueless time traveler to build a civilization from the ground up.
Deeply researched irreverent and significantly more fun than being eaten by a saber-toothed
tiger How to Invent Everything will make you smarter more competent and completely prepared
to become the most important and influential person ever. You're about to make history. . .
better.
