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83) Thomas Edison
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Discusses the life of Thomas Edison, the inventor of the phonograph, the first machine to record and play sounds.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Meet the man behind the board games: Milton Bradley. Born in Maine in 1836, Milton Bradley moved with his family to the working-class city of Lowell, Massachusetts, at age 11. His early life consisted of several highs and lows, from graduating high school and attending Harvard to getting laid off and losing his first wife. These experiences gave Bradley the idea for his first board game: The Checkered Game of Life. He produced and sold Life across...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Writer Tracy Nelson Maurer and illustrator El Primo Ramón present a lively picture book biography of Samuel Morse that highlights how he revolutionized modern technology.
Back in the 1800s, information traveled slowly. Who would dream of instant messages? Samuel Morse, that's who! Who traveled to France, where the famous telegraph towers relayed 10,000 possible codes for messages depending on the signal arm positions-only if the weather was clear?...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Meet Alexander Graham Bell --- pioneering educator and inventor of the telephone. The story of Aleck's world-changing invention and his struggle to perfect it is told in level-appropriate language and detailed illustrations. A Level 3 first reader.
89) Robert Fulton
Author
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
From the time he was young, Robert Fulton liked to work with his hands. For a while he thought he wanted to be an artist, but it was hard to make a living as a painter. Fulton turned to inventing things, including a very early version of the submarine. He is most famous for building the first practical steamboat. Others had tried and failed, but his North River Steam Boat was successful. It sailed regularly between New York City and Albany, the capital...
94) Thomas Edison
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Meet Thomas Edison - world-famous inventor. The story of his many inventions, including the phonograph and the light bulb, is told in level-appropriate language and detailed illustrations in the Level 3 first reader.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Here is the story of the ambitious young man who brought life-changing ideas to America, despite the obstructive efforts of his hero-turned-rival, Thomas Edison. From using alternating current, to lighting up the Chicago World's Fair, to harnessing Niagara to electrify New York City and beyond, Nikola Tesla was a revolutionary ahead of his time. Remote controls, fluorescent lights, X-rays, speedometers, cell phones, even the radio -- all resulted...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Eli Whitney's love of inventing and pondering new ideas made him one of America's greatest inventors. Best known for inventing the cotton gin, one of the most important American inventions of the century, he changed cotton production forever. A few years later, Whitney invented machines to make muskets that were identical. The first mass-manufacturing business in the country, his musket factory revolutionized the way Americans made things.
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