inventors

An introduction to the lives and accomplishments of nine American women inventors.

Provides accounts of ten significant twentieth-century inventors and the products they are responsible for including the laser, pocket calculator, and the microchip.

In London, the teenaged geniuses of STORM, a secret organization dedicated to eliminating the world's misery through science and technology, uncover plans for a deadly weapon and race to find and dismantle it, then confront the corrupt scientist behind the scheme.

Teenage STORM agents Will, Andrew, and Gaia seek answers to a pair of "ghostly" burglaries in Venice, but uncover a larger plot that aims to assassinate the leading figures of international intelligence.

Chronicles the life and career of Robert Fulton, the American inventor whose version of the steamship provided travelers with a relatively fast and inexpensive means of transportation.

In the 1890s on an island off the Irish coast, Conor Broekhart is falsely imprisoned and passes the solitary months by scratching designs of flying machines into the walls, including one for a glider with which he dreams of escape.

Describes the work of the inventor, Thomas Alva Edison, in creating the incandescent light bulb.

A biography of the eighteenth-century Scottish inventor and engineer whose improved designs of the steam engine made its wide use possible.

Photographs and text tell the stories of some of the greatest inventions and inventors of the modern world.

Presents a biography of the tireless Thomas Edison, illustrated with many photos of his life and inventions.