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Series

Pub. Date

1996

Physical Desc

32 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm.

Language

English

Description

Focuses on Franklin's creative ideas and inventions while also referring to his accomplishments as a writer, publisher, government official, and patriot.

2) The Wright brothers

Author

Series

Pub. Date

1996

Physical Desc

32 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm.

Language

English

Description

Sketches the lives of the two men responsible for the first flight of a machine powered aircraft on December 17, 1903, in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.

3) Alexander Graham Bell

Author

Series

Pub. Date

1997

Physical Desc

32 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm.

Language

English

Description

Sketches the life of the man who at the age of twenty-nine was responsible for the invention of the telephone.

4) George Eastman

Author

Series

Pub. Date

1997

Physical Desc

32 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm.

Language

English

Description

Sketches the life from poverty to riches of the inventor of the Kodak camera which made it possible for the ordinary person to take pictures.

5) Henry Ford

Author

Series

Pub. Date

1997

Physical Desc

32 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm.

Language

English

Description

Sketches the life of the inventor and businessman who with hard work and an innovative mind changed the car industry in ways that will never be duplicated.

6) Thomas Edison

Author

Series

Pub. Date

1997

Physical Desc

32 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm.

Language

English

Description

Sketches the life of the "Wizard of Menlo Park, " the man who patented more than one thousand inventions, the most important of which was the electric light bulb.

7) Jonas Salk

Author

Durrett, Deanne

Series

Inventors and creators

Pub. Date

2002

Physical Desc

48 pages : illustrations (some color); 24 cm.

Language

English

Description

Inventors who changed the world

Profiles the man who made his mark as developer of a polio vaccine, struggled to deal with the resultant fame, and emerged as a philosoper/scientist, writing and speaking about our responsibility for the future.

8) Stan Lee: creator of Spider-man

Author

Miller, Raymond H

Series

Inventors and creators

Pub. Date

2006

Physical Desc

48 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.

Language

English

9) J. Robert Oppenheimer: the brain behind the bomb

Author

Scherer, Glenn

Series

Pub. Date

2008

Edition

Library ed.

Physical Desc

128 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.

Language

English

10) Albert Einstein: universal genius

Author

Getting to know the world's greatest inventors and scientists

Series

Pub. Date

2009

Lexile measure

910L

Physical Desc

32 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Language

English

11) Inspiring African-American inventors

Author

Young, Jeff C

Series

Collective bios of scientists and mathematicians African-American inventors

Pub. Date

2009

Physical Desc

128 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Language

English

12) Marie Curie: scientist who made glowing discoveries

Author

Getting to know the world's greatest inventors and scientists

Series

Pub. Date

2009

Lexile measure

840L

Physical Desc

32 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Language

English

13) Thomas Edison: inventor with a lot of bright ideas

Author

Getting to know the world's greatest inventors and scientists

Series

Pub. Date

2009

Lexile measure

870L

Physical Desc

32 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Language

English

14) Steve Jobs & Steve Wozniak: geek heroes who put the personal in computers

Author

Getting to know the world's greatest inventors and scientists

Series

Pub. Date

2010

Lexile measure

940L

Physical Desc

32 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.

Language

English

Description

An introduction to the lives and careers of Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, founders of Apple Computer, Inc.

15) The guy who invented home video games: Ralph Baer and his awesome invention

Author

Wyckoff, Edwin Brit

Series

Genius at work!

Pub. Date

2011

Physical Desc

32 pages : illustrations (some color), color map ; 24 cm.

Language

English

Description

"Read about Ralph Baer and find out how he invented the first video games"--Provided by publisher.

16) Sign language man: Gallaudet and his incredible work

Author

Wyckoff, Edwin Brit

Series

Genius at work!

Pub. Date

2011

Physical Desc

32 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm.

Language

English

Description

Jr. graphic American inventors

"Read about Thomas H. Gallaudet, who helped develop and teach American Sign Language"--Provided by publisher.

17) Henry Ford

Author

Roberts, Steven

Series

Pub. Date

2013

Edition

1st ed.

Physical Desc

24 pages : chiefly color illustrations, color map ; 26 cm.

Language

English

18) Pioneers in astronomy and space exploration

Series

Inventors and innovators

Pub. Date

2013

Edition

1st ed.

Physical Desc

141 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.

Language

English

19) The conjurer's riddle

Author

Cremer, Andrea R

Series

Inventor's secret volume 2

Publisher

Philomel Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)

Pub. Date

[2015]

Physical Desc

342 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm.

Language

English

Description

Amazing Inventors and Innovators

"Charlotte leads her friends to New Orleans, where the resistance against the Empire is based. There, she must figure out where her true loyalties lie"--

20) The Wright Brothers

Author

Davis, Lynn

Series

Publisher

Super Sandcastle, an imprint of Abdo Publishing

Pub. Date

[2015]

Lexile measure

470L

Physical Desc

24 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 20 x 24 cm.

Language

English

Description