The Most Magnificent Invention Mansion: A Three-Dimensional Mystery

This ready assembled (no cutting, no gluing) model opens out, in the same way as a traditional doll's house, to reveal 16 rooms to explore - all packed full of Victorian inventions. The accompanying book with over 50 press-out pieces provides a simple introduction to the technology behind many of the great inventions of the 19th century, with the emphasis very much on the bizarre. From the back cover: "Throw open the doors of Invention Mansion, and enter the wacky world of Sir Percy de Vise and his international band of bonkers inventors and their genuine crazy Victorian inventions! Also includes a 24-page book - about real inventions from the Victorian 'Age of Invention' and a mystery to solve."