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Henry Hudson

A biography of the explorer who discovered a great river and bay and charted rich lands in the American wilderness.

Eli Whitney, great inventor

A brief biography of the inventor of a gin to seed upland cotton and of a way to mass produce musket locks.

The Wright brothers

A biography of the brothers who made the world's first flight in a power-driven, heavier-than-air machine at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, in 1903.

Eli Whitney, great inventor

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.

Samuel F. B. Morse, artist-inventor

A brief 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.

Henry Hudson

A biography of the explorer who discovered a great river and bay and charted rich lands in the American wilderness.

Leif the Lucky, discoverer of America

Luck played an important role in Leif's life, thereby giving him his nickname. Adventure filled his life too, as he sailed west and discovered Vineland, which was rediscovered centuries later.

Eli Whitney, great inventor.

A brief biography of the inventor of a gin to seed upland cotton and of a way to mass produce musket locks.

Henry Hudson

A biography of the explorer who discovered a great river and bay and charted rich lands in the American wilderness.

The Wright brothers

A biography of the brothers who made the world's first flight in a power-driven, heavier-than-air machine at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, in 1903.

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