Electronics & Circuitry - Ravensburger Jigsaw Puzzle

Discover the World of Electrical Engineering!
Whether you are talking about lamps, alarm systems, or loudspeakers, you are surrounded by machinery and devices that make your life easier, but can only work with electricity. Aspiring electrical engineers can delve into eight different science activities and get to the bottom of those secrets. They learn how to produce real working gadgets such as an alarm to protect their things, a loudspeaker for their music, reading lamp or flashlight. The kit also helps them create and send Morse Code messages. The manual includes colorful instructions and extensive background information on the functionality of electronic gadgets and the use of circuitry in our daily life. Science X® Electronics & Circuitry will engage little engineers for hours and explain the world of electronics through fun projects that enable them to produce gadgets that really work!

It's Fun to be a Scientist!
Science X® kits from Ravensburger help children ages 8 and up understand everyday phenomena by letting them test things out scientifically on their own, and are accompanied by explanations and lots of interesting facts. Science X® Electronics & Circuitry includes 8 exciting activities with success guarantee, designed by experts and tested by kids! These activities focus on answering children’s questions about nature and technology. With the help of Science X®, young discoverers learn how to tackle the mysteries of everyday life and beyond. Fascinating background information makes learning fun and easy-to-use materials with richly illustrated manuals encourage kids to become active scientific explorers!

Explore Electronics & Circuitry with 8 Amazing Activities
Build a continuity tester, which tests circuits, so that you can find the source of any errors in your wiring quickly and easy. Construct a plant watering monitor to tell if a plant needs watering. Make a flashlight with just a few supplies and build your very own reading lamp or burglar alarm to protect your personal items. Create a Morse Code device and use it to send code messages to your friends! Build your own, portable loudspeaker and connect it to your music equipment!

What's In The Box?
13 Resistors, 1 IC TBA 820, 4 BC 547 Transistors, 1 White LED, 4 Green LEDs, 2 Ceramic Capacitors, 6 Electrolytic Capacitors, 1 Loudspeaker, 1 Battery Terminal, 5 m Black Wire & 5 m Red Wire, 1 Audio Jack, 1 Plastic Tool, 30 Brass Fasteners, 25 Springs, 1 Flashlight & Reflector Panel, 1 Reading Lamp Panel & Shade, 1 Contact Alarm Panel, 1 Loudspeaker Panel, 1 Morse Code & Switch Panel, 9 Printed Circuit Boards, Detailed Instruction Manual.

Ravensburger History

The company was founded by Otto Robert Maier with seat in Ravensburg, a town in Upper Swabia in southern Germany. He began publishing in 1883 with his first author contract. He started publishing instruction folders for craftsmen and architects, which soon acquired him a solid financial basis. His first board game appeared in 1884, named "Journey around the world".

At the turn of the 20th century, his product line broadened to include picture books, books, children’s activity books, Art Instruction manuals, non-fiction books, and reference books as well as children’s games, Happy Families and activity kits. In 1900, the Ravensburger blue triangle trademark was registered with the Imperial Patent office. As of 1912, many board and activity games had an export version that was distributed to Western Europe, the countries of the Danube Monarchy as well as Russia.

Before the First World War, Ravensburger had around 800 products. The publishing house was damaged during the Second World War and continued to produce games in the years of the reconstruction. The company focused on children's games and books and specialized books for art, architecture and hobbies, and from 1962 grew strongly. The company started to produce jigsaw puzzle games in 1964, and in the same year opened subsidiaries in Austria, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. In 1977 the company split into a book publishing arm and a game publishing arm.

Today there are approximately 1,800 available books and 850 games as well as puzzles, hobby products and CD-ROM titles at Ravensburger and its subsidiaries, which include Alea for "hobby and ardent game players" and FX Schmid for games and children's books. Ravensburger products are exported to more than fifty countries.

In September 2010, Ravensburger broke Educa's record for the world's largest jigsaw puzzle of 24,000 pieces. Ravensburger's new puzzle design by late pop artist Keith Haring titled, 'Keith Haring: Double Retrospect' breaks the Guinness Book of World Records measuring 17' × 6' built from 32,256 pieces and comes with its own dolly cart for toting.