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Publisher
Future Publishing Ltd
Language
English
Description
This book celebrates some of history’s greatest minds, whose intelligence and perseverance has helped shape the modern world. Among others, you will encounter brilliant mathematicians, celebrated scientists and photography pioneers. Get an insight into their careers and grasp the innovative spirit and determination required to change the course of history. Featuring: Meet the inventors - Get to know the men and women whose ingenuity shaped the
...3) Henry Ford
Author
Publisher
Abdo & Daughters
Pub. Date
[1997]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
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.
8) Eli Whitney
Series
Publisher
Schlessinger Media
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
By exploring archival films, photographs and actual drawings and materials, students will learn of Eli Whitney and how invention of the cotton gin had an enormous economic impact on young America and slavery.
10) Henry Ford
Series
Publisher
Schlessinger Media
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
By exploring archival films, photographs and actual drawings and materials, students will learn of Henry Ford and his Model T, but his most valuable innovation was his new manufacturing process and moving assembly line that revolutionized how cars were made, thus transforming the industry and America!
12) James Watt
Series
Publisher
Schlessinger Media
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
James Watt tells the story of an industrious Scotsman who set out to improve the efficiency of an existing piece of machinery and, in the process, sparked the Industrial Revolution!
14) Thomas Edison
Series
Publisher
Schlessinger Media
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
By exploring archival films, photographs and actual drawings and materials, students will learn of Thomas Edison and his inventions of electric lighting, phonograph, and movie camera, but also establishing the first true research lab, an invention factory!
Series
Publisher
Schlessinger Media
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
By exploring archival films, photographs and actual drawings and materials, students will learn of the Wright brothers, especially through reenactments. They had to test their ideas about flight before finally building their first powered airplane.
Author
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A biography of African American surgeon Dr. Daniel Hale Williams, who founded the first non-segregated hospital in the U.S. and who pioneered performing surgery on the lining around the heart.
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