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Synopsis Professor Kompressor is an inventor. He is excellent at inventing, but the inventions are not always excellent. The first book in the series about Professor Kompressor, an ever-so-slightly misguided inventor, contains 12 entertaining episodes from the Professor's inventing career. When the Professor sets out to improve the world, unexpected things happen. Making your mechanical helper too clever might be an obvious mistake, but who would have known that tinkering with an old Volkswagen Beetle could turn out to be so dangerous?  And who would have thought that a time machine would turn out to be such a waste of… well… time?  Professor Kompressor is a fictional character but his adventures are inspired by ideas from science and the modern world. They show that you can have a lot of fun with science and technology, especially if you allow for a little bit of creative mis-interpretation. A book that entertains children of all ages from Professor Nils Andersson, award-winning author and an authority on ma