inventors

Discusses the life of Thomas Edison, including his early childhood, education, interests, and inventions.

All his life, Dawson has been inventing things, repairing toys in unusual ways, and helping clean up his neighborhood by reusing discarded objects, but when his Vacu-Maniac malfunctions it is his friend Mooey whose brainpower saves the day.

Examines the life of Robert Cade, discusses his work in medicine, and looks at how his efforts to find a way to treat football players at the University of Florida for dehydration and heatstroke led to the invention of Gatorade.

Jason, Rick, and Julia follow a trail of clues and codes into the past, arriving in eighteenth-century Venice, where they search for the inventions of Kilmore Cove's most famous citizen, Peter Dedalus, who has hidden in the past to protect the mystery of the Doors to Time.

Vincent Shadow has always been different from the other kids his age, thanks to his creative mind, which he uses to develop unique toys in his secret attic lab, and when a toy inventor offers Vincent the chance to make his dreams a reality, he realizes his creativity is what makes him special, not just strange.

Illustrations and simple text help chronicle the life of inventor Alexander Graham Bell.

Examines the life and career of American inventor and businessman Thomas Edison, and features cartoon-style illustrations, and reproductions of Edison's sketches and notebooks.

Examines the life and career of inventor Alexander Graham Bell.

A biography of the inventive genius who developed the electric light bulb, the phonograph, and the motion picture.

Describes the life and work of the talented inventor and resourceful businessman, with special emphasis on his development of the steamboat.