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Author
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
The stories of more than 100 inventions are told with illustrations that resemble comic-strips. Included are the inventions of Johannes Gutenberg, James Watt, Richard Trevithick and George Stephenson, Thomas Edison, Antonio Meucci and Alexander Graham Bell, Wilbur and Orville Wright, Guglielmo Marconi, John Logie Baird and a number of women inventors.
4) Inventors
Author
Pub. Date
[1996]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 9.3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Find out how great inventors in our history came up with ground-breaking discoveries that changed life as we know it. Over 100 photographs and illustrations from the Library of Congress vividly capture the spirit of the great thinkers who, by exploring their imaginations, brought these exciting inventions to life.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
From 1800 to 1900 the territory of the United States expanded fourfold, and the population skyrocketed from about five million to seventy-five million plus. Two key innovations in technology helped this rapid development take place: steam and electricity. This easy-to-read guide traces the rail system's impact on shipping, travel, and the taming of the western frontier. Also covered are unprecedented advances in communication and other technology,...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
Everything you think you know about Nikola Tesla is wrong. Nikola Tesla was one of the greatest electrical inventors who ever lived. For years, the engineering genius was relegated to relative obscurity, his contributions to humanity (we are told) obscured by a number of nineteenth-century inventors and industrialists who took credit for his work or stole his patents outright. In recent years, the historical record has been "corrected" and Tesla has...
11) Women inventors
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Series
Pub. Date
[1997]
Description
An introduction to the lives and accomplishments of nine American women inventors.