scientists

Mr. Rummage's stall in a busy antiques market holds a very old telescope, owned by Galileo.

A brief biography of Benjamin Franklin that discusses his childhood, work as a printer and author, family, inventions, career as a diplomat, and role in the drafting of the Declaration of Independence and U.S. Constitution. Includes a time line, a glossary, and resources.

Profiles a selection of one hundred scientists of significant influence and accomplishment.

Presents alphabetically arranged biographies of scientists in the fields of physical, technological, and social sciences.

The teenaged geniuses of STORM, a secret organization dedicated to eliminating the world's misery through science and technology, head to the Swiss Alps seeking the last of six scientists whose Project FIREball is of interest to MI6, the CIA, and an unknown assasin.

The tale of a scientist who discovers how to make his body become invisible, but, when he can't make himself visible again, becomes violently insane.

A scientist invents a time machine and uses it to travel into the future, where he discovers the childlike Eloi and the hideous underground Morlocks.

Short biographies of eight black American pioneers of discovery, including Benjamin Banneker, George Washington Carver, and Lewis Latimer.

A biography of James Watson, one of the scientists who helped discover the structure of DNA, the carrier of heredity in higher organisms.

A biography of the scientist who developed a vaccine that conquered polio.