inventors

Follows five inventors: Elijah "the real" McCoy, machinery oiling equipment; Madame C.J. Walker, hair products for black women; Granville Woods, electrical signal system for trains; Garrett Morgan, gas masks and traffic signals; and Jan Matzeliger, shoe last machinery.

Animated depiction of the life of Alexander Graham Bell, one of America's best known inventors.

Linus investigates the lives of three American inventors for a school report, and shares his findings with the Peanuts crew: Thomas Edison, inventor of the light bulb; Alexander Graham Bell, originator of the telephone; and Henry Ford, prime mover of assembly line manufactured automobiles.

When Sarah and Luke need to invent their own toy they meet their toy-inventor idol, Mr Flukelar, and he shares some tricks of the trade.

A biography of the Canadian-born black American who studied engineering in Scotland and patented over fifty inventions despite the obstacles he faced because of his race.

Discusses the visionary inventor's life, his application of theories in physics to discover radio, and his contributions to the science of communication.

Attempts to unearth the historic Benjamin Franklin from the images that have accumulated since the publication of his "Autobiography" in 1794, presenting him as the most benevolent and philanthropic of the Founders, unconcerned with the accumulation of wealth, conflicted over his place in the world, and a latecomer to the idea of American freedom.