inventors

A biography of Benjamin Franklin that follows him from his childhood in Boston, where he was the son of a poor soap and candle maker with seventeen children, to his death, describing how Franklin became a self-made man who died a renowned statesman, scientist, printer, author, and inventor.

A biography of Serbian inventor and electrical engineer Nikola Tesla--who was born in Croatia--covering his role as a contributor to the fields of electricity and magnetism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and includes a timeline, glossary, and photographs.

Examines the lives and accomplishments of Guglielmo Marconi and Nikola Tesla, discussing their pioneering work in developing wireless communication, and includes Internet links to additional information.

A juvenile biography of Benjamin Franklin, scientist, inventor, printer, writer, statesman, and Founding Father.

A biography of American inventor and businessperson Thomas Edison, covering his upbringing, marriages, career, and many patented creations, such as the first practical electric light bulb.

A biography of eighteenth-century printer, scientist, revolutionary, and diplomat, Benjamin Franklin.

Text and photographs recount the life of scientist Nikola Tesla who developed the technology that harnessed alternating-current electricity.

Examines the personality as well as the thought processes that led this inventor to his discoveries which have promoted understanding of the natural world.

Presents a short biography of Nikola Tesla, who along with Thomas Edison, brought about the discovery of electricity, and examines his childhood in Croatia and other inventions credited to him.

In the early twentieth century, four sisters and their widowed mother, a famed spiritualist, travel from New York to London, and as the Titanic conveys them and their acquaintances, journalist W.T. Stead, scientist Nikola Tesla, and industrialist John Jacob Astor, home, Tesla's inventions will either doom or save them all.