Looks at the life and accomplishments of Eli Whitney, the eighteenth-century inventor who revolutionized cotton production in the South with his creation of the cotton gin, and who later designed machines for the mass production of muskets.
A brief biography of Henry Ford with emphasis on how he came to develop fast, sturdy, and reliable racing cars that eventually gave him the idea for his Model T.
The life story of the African-American who became a popular composer and sought to elevate ragtime to the level of classical music, only to have his talents fully recognized after his death.
Traces the life of the American poet, journalist, and historian whose lifelong interest in Abraham Lincoln led to the publishing of a multi-volume biography which won the Pulitzer Prize.
A biography of the half-Dutch/half-black Surinamese man who, despite the hardships and prejudice he found in his new Massachusetts home, invented a shoe-lasting machine that revolutionized the shoe industry in the late nineteenth century.
