inventors

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inventors

Thomas Alva Edison

1988
Traces the life and contributions of the famous inventor whose inventions such as the electric light bulb and phonograph helped change the world.

Those inventive Americans

1971
A collection of biographical sketches of inventors including the famous and the not so famous.

Hey kid, want to buy a bridge?

2006
Thanks to their magical book, Fred, Sam, and Joe inadvertently travel through time to 1877 New York City, where they and their granddaughters, who have also come from the future, help them find a way back to their own time.

Benjamin Franklin

revolutionary inventor
2007
A brief biography of inventor, statesman, and founding father, Benjamin Franklin, that profiles his life and works.

Thomas A. Edison

the man who lit up the world
2007
A brief biography of inventor Thomas Edison that profiles his life and works which includes a number of inventions including the phonograph, movie camera, and incandescent light bulb.

Alexander Graham Bell

giving voice to the world
2007
A brief biography of inventor Alexander Graham Bell that profiles his life and works which included the invention of the telephone.

Mac Slater vs. the city

2011
Mac and his reluctant friend Paul head from Australia to Manhattan to continue their work for the Coolhunter website, and once there they discover a group of young inventors whose work is meant to be kept top-secret.

10 inventors who changed the world

2009
Profiles the lives and work of inventors who changed the course of history, including Archimedes, Galileo, Benjamin Franklin, James Watt, Thomas Edison, and others.

Benjamin Franklin

inventing America
2004
Presents a biography of statesman, inventor, and founding father, Benjamin Franklin from his childhood and youth in Boston, his entrance into politics and attempt to prevent war with England, and his views on slavery and the slave trade.

Cyrus McCormick and the mechanical reaper

2002
Profiles Cyrus Hall McCormick, whose hatred of farm work led him to invent a machine which made it much quicker and easier to harvest wheat, and which turned him into a multi-millionaire businessman.

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