inventors

Profiles the lives of twenty-five African-American inventors who made significant scientific contributions from the eighteenth century to modern times.

Highlights inventors and their inventions, from the printing of books in the fifteenth century to today's electronic devices.

Presents some of the characteristics of inventors by describing the inventions of people such as Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas Edison, and Eli Whitney.

A biography of the inventor of the cotton gin who also developed basic ideas of mass production in the manufacture of weapons and other machines.

A brief biography of the inventor of the world's first practical telegraph system.

A biography of the inventor of the telegraph and Morse code, who planned from early childhood to be a painter of great historical pictures but first won recognition as a portrait painter.

A biography of the scientist whose many inventions include the Polaroid camera.

A brief biography of the portrait painter and inventor of the submarine and steamboat.

Biography of Benjamin Franklin focusing on his experiments and inventions involving electricity, and examining his improvements to the everyday objects of his time.

A biography of the chemist who, in recognition of her important discoveries and inventions, was the first woman inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 1991.