inventors

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Alexander Graham Bell

2003
Discusses the early childhood, education, interests, and inventions of Alexander Graham Bell.

Robert Fulton

and the development of the steamboat
2003
Examines the life and times of Robert Fulton, born in 1765, discussing his childhood in the colony of Pennsylvania, his training to be a silversmith, his pursuit of a career as an artist, and the discovery of his mechanical skills that led to his development of the steamboat.

Eureka!

poems about inventors
2002
An illustrated collection of poems about famous and relatively unknown inventors from ancient times to the present.

Bleeps and blips to rocket ships

great inventions in communications
2001

Weapons

designing the tools of war
2000
Traces the development of weapons through the lives of such inventors and their inventions as David Bushnell and the submarine, Samuel Colt and the revolver, John Ericsson and the battleship, Hiram Maxim and the machine gun, and Ernest Swinton and the tank.

Inventors and their discoveries

1998
Highlights twenty-five notable achievements in science, medicine, and industry and the individuals responsible, including Alexander Graham Bell, Madame Curie, and Samuel F. B. Morse.

Alexander Graham Bell

a photo-illustrated biography
1999
A biography of the inventor and teacher of the deaf, who experimented in many areas, including electricity, giant kites, and boats called hydrofoils, and became famous for creating the telephone.

Guglielmo Marconi and radio

1995
Biography of the man whose experiments with electromagnetic waves and development of radio ushered in an era of wireless communication.

George Westinghouse

a genius for invention
1997
Examines the life and work of the determined, forward-thinking inventor, who held more than three hundred patents by the time he died.

TV's forgotten hero

the story of Philo Farnsworth
1996
A biography of the persistent experimenter whose interest in electricity led him to develop an electronic television system in the 1920s.

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