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Makers of the Telegraph : Samuel Morse, Ezra Cornell and Joseph Henry

Subjects: Telegraph--United States--History; Inventors--United States--BiographyBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Science & Technology; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Mechanical

  • Abstract: The single-wire telegraph revolutionized long distance communication but it was not the brainchild of one inventor, Samuel Morse. His colleagues and employees--specifically Ezra Cornell and ...

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Lucean Arthur Headen : The Making of a Black Inventor and Entrepreneur

Subjects: African Americans--United States--History--20th century--Biography; African American inventors--United States--Biography; African American automobile industry workers--Great Britain--BiographyBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / General; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / American / African American & Black Studies; HISTORY / African American & Black

  • Abstract: Born in Carthage, North Carolina, Lucean Arthur Headen (1879–1957) grew up amid former slave artisans. Inspired by his grandfather, a wheelwright, and great-uncle, a toolmaker, he ...

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You Belong to the Universe : Buckminster Fuller and the Future

Subjects: Architects--United States--Biography; Inventors--United States--BiographyTECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Reference; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Science & Technology; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Engineering (General)

  • Abstract: A compelling call to apply Buckminster Fuller's creative problem-solving to present-day problems A self-professed'comprehensive anticipatory design scientist,'the inventor Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983) was undoubtedly a ...

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Benjamin Franklin Wealth and Wisdom : The Way to Wealth and The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

Subjects: Scientists--United States--Biography; Inventors--United States--Biography; Printers--United States--BiographyBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / General; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical

  • Abstract: TWO CLASSICS OF THE AMERICAN SPIRIT TOGETHER IN ONE VOLUME The Way To Wealth Originally a preface to the 1758 edition of Franklin's beloved Poor Richard's ...

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Samuel F. B. Morse and the Dawn of the Age of Electricity

Subjects: Inventors--United States--Biography; Painters--United States--Biography; Telegraph--HistoryHISTORY / United States / 19th Century; HISTORY / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877); TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Telecommunications

  • Abstract: The Morse telegraph launched the electronic telecommunications industry and reduced the travel time of information from days, weeks and months to seconds and minutes. It ...

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Edison: His Life and Inventions

Subjects: Inventors--United States--BiographyBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Science & Technology

  • Abstract: Prior to this book's original publication in 1910, no complete, authentic, and authorized record of the work of Mr. Edison had been given to the world. ...

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Ingenious Machinists : Two Inventive Lives From the American Industrial Revolution

Subjects: Machinists--United States--Biography; Inventors--United States--Biography; Industrial revolution--United StatesHISTORY / United States / State & Local / New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT)

  • Abstract: Ingenious Machinists recounts the early development of industrialization in New England and New York through the lives of two prominent innovators whose work advanced the ...

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C. Francis Jenkins, Pioneer of Film and Television

Subjects: Television--Biography; Television--History; Inventors--United States--BiographyBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Science & Technology; PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism

  • Abstract: This is the first biography of the important but long-forgotten American inventor Charles Francis Jenkins (1867-1934). Historian Donald G. Godfrey documents ...

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Tesla : Inventor of the Electrical Age

Subjects: Electrical engineers--United States--Biography; Inventors--United States--BiographyBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Science & Technology; SCIENCE / Physics / Electricity; SCIENCE / Physics / Electromagnetism

  • Abstract: The definitive account of Tesla's life and workNikola Tesla was a major contributor to the electrical revolution that transformed daily life at the turn of ...

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The Truth About Tesla : The Myth of the Lone Genius in the History of Innovation

Subjects: Inventions--United States--History; Technological innovations--United States--History; Electrical engineers--United States--BiographyBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Science & Technology; SCIENCE / Physics / Electricity; SCIENCE / History

  • Abstract: Everything you think you know about Nikola Tesla is wrong. Nikola Tesla was one of the greatest electrical inventors who ever ...

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