Inventions & inventors books

Contains about 180 inventions described in chronological order with an emphasis on how the inventions were developed,...  Read More >>

"Roboticist and creator of the runaway success How To Survive A Robot Uprising, which the New York Times called...  Read More >>

"Roboticist and creator of the runaway success How To Survive A Robot Uprising, which the New York Times called...  Read More >>

Roboticist and creator of the runaway success How To Survive A Robot Uprising, which the New York Times called hilariously...  Read More >>

Thomas A. Edison and the Modernization of America is a captivating narrative which chronicles America’s most formidable...  Read More >>

Tells one of the greatest stories of science: how a hand loom invented in Napoleonic France led to the birth of...  Read More >>

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Hailed as the Thomas Edison and Henry Ford of Silicon Valley, Robert Noyce was a brilliant inventor, a leading entrepreneur,...  Read More >>

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Deals with the history of eyeglasses from their invention in Italy ca. 1286 to the appearance of the telescope three...  Read More >>

Rolex created the biennial Awards for Enterprise to honour outstanding individual achievements in the realms of...  Read More >>

Presents an examination of 20 real inventions from WW2 that never saw the light of day. Each entry in this work...  Read More >>

Who can say they have no emotional reaction when they think of a frisbee, or a teddy-bear, or a Harley-Davidson,...  Read More >>

The Victorian age (1837-1901) was a period of enormous technological progress in communications, transport, and...  Read More >>

A ""skillful and literate"" (New York Times Book Review) biography of the persecuted genius who helped create the...  Read More >>

What Would MacGyver Do?: True Stories of Improvised Genius in Everyday Life  Read More >>

Everyone has had a situation like it - stuck on a lonely road with a broken car or marooned on an island in the...  Read More >>

Edgy, entertaining and laugh-out-loud funny, these stories show that with a little ingenuity and a lot of duct tape...  Read More >>

Edgy, entertaining and laugh-out-loud funny, these stories show that with a little ingenuity and a lot of duct tape...  Read More >>

Pow! This small book packs a big punch! Every paragraph is full of energy. The inventions range from a machine to...  Read More >>

An illustrated history of American innovators, some well known, some unknown, and all fascinating, by the author...  Read More >>

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This book is intended to introduce teachers and students to science fair projects that can be adapted to business...  Read More >>

More than 100 important innovations in ceramics in the last 100 years are individually described.  Read More >>