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Wizard: The Life and Times of Nikola Tesla

Wizard: The Life and Times of Nikola Tesla more books like this

by Marc J Seifer

Nikola Tesla, credited by many as the inspiration for radios, robots, and even radar, has been called the patron saint of modern electricity. "Wizard" is the definitive biography of this founding father of modern technology. of photos.

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My Inventions: The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla

My Inventions: The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla more books like this

by Nikola Tesla

"The progressive development of man is virtually dependent on invention. It is the most important product of his creative brain." Nikola Tesla, uncelebrated oracle of the electronic age without whom our telephone, radio, automobile ignition, and television would have been unrealized, was born in Croatia in 1856. He studied physics and mathematics ...

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Tesla, Man Out of Time

Tesla, Man Out of Time more books like this

by Margaret Cheney

Cheney's biography of one of the greatest inventors and scientists of the modern age restores Tesla's precedence as the true inventor of radio, as well as of other remarkable firsts such as the harnessing of alternating current, remotely guided weapons, florescent lighting, and the bladeless turbine. The biography illuminates Tesla's relationships ...

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They Made America: From the Steam Engine to the Search Engine: Two Centuries of Innovators

They Made America: From the Steam Engine to the Search Engine: Two Centuries of Innovators more books like this

by Harold Evans, David Lefer, Gail Buckland

From the steam engine to the search engine, Harold Evans presents an illustrated history of two centuries of American innovators. Vast and beautifully designed, scores of men and women populate this rollicking survey which reveals the surprising truths behind many modern creations, as well as valuable lessons to be gleaned by studying these ...

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Airman

Airman more books like this

by Eoin Colfer

in the 1890s, Conor Broekhart is a boy living on the Saltee Islands off the Irish coast, where his father works as the king's bodyguard. But his happy, carefree life is changed forever when he finds out that the power-hungry Marshall Hugo Bonvilian is organizing a military coup to overthrow the king. When Conor is unable to stop Bonvilian, the ...

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Practical Electronics for Inventors

Practical Electronics for Inventors more books like this

by Paul Scherz

Here's the book for every hobbyist who wants to be an inventor but needs to learn the basics of electronics to get there. Scherz's reassuring step-by-step approach teaches the fundamentals in a way that requires no background in electronics. Profusely illustrated with elaborate detailed drawings, this-easy-to follow how to book offers all ...

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The Scientists: A History of Science Told Through the Lives of Its Greatest Inventors

The Scientists: A History of Science Told Through the Lives of Its Greatest Inventors more books like this

by John R Gribbin

Focusing on the lives and achievements of individual scientists, this wonderfully readable description of scientific development over the past 500 years is by the bestselling author of "In Search of Schr]dinger's Cat."

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Ingenious Mechanisms for Designers and Inventors

Ingenious Mechanisms for Designers and Inventors more books like this

by Franklin Day Jones

The descriptions and illustrations are confined to the important and fundamental elements, so that time is not wasted reading a lot of useless or irrelevant detail. Readers are told plainly and briefly what each mechanism consists of, how it operates, and the features which make it of special interest. The particular mechanisms have been selected ...

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The Invention of Everything Else

The Invention of Everything Else more books like this

by Samantha Hunt

Hunt's novel is a wondrous imagining of an unlikely friendship between theeccentric inventor Nikola Tesla and a young chambermaid in the Hotel New Yorker, where Tesla lived out his last days.

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The Unofficial Lego Mindstorms Nxt Inventor's Guide

The Unofficial Lego Mindstorms Nxt Inventor's Guide more books like this

by David J Perdue

The LEGO Mindstorms NXT set is a very powerful robotics toolkit, but it lacks a detailed users guide. This is the users guide that every Mindstorms owner needs. Includes a Mindstorms NXT Brickopedia.

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Benjamin Franklin more books like this

by Professor Edmund S Morgan

In this biography of the Founding Father, Morgan looks at Ben Franklin's life and his many accomplishments in both politics and in science. He digs deeper to reveal the conflicts between Franklin's vision of what he wanted America to be and the historic collaborations that shaped the new country. A New York Times Notable Book for 2002.

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The Fantastic Inventions of Nikola Tesla more books like this

by Nikola Tesla, David Hatcher Childress

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Black Pioneers of Science and Invention more books like this

by Louis Haber

Profiles of 14 African American scientists and inventors including Benjamin Banneker, George Washington Carver, and Granville T. Woods. Illustrated with b&w photographs.

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Mr. Gatling's Terrible Marvel: The Gun That Changed Everything and the Misunderstood Genius Who Invented It more books like this

by Julia Keller

Pulitzer Prize-winner Keller offers a riveting account of the Gatling gun's invention, its misunderstood creator, and its tremendous impact on American and world events. 8-page b&w photo insert.

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Thomas Edison: Young Inventor more books like this

by Sue Guthridge, Wallace Wook (Illustrator)

A biography focusing on the childhood of the inventor who patented more than 1,100 inventions in sixty years, among them the electric light and the phonograph.

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The Inventor's Bible: How to Market and License Your Brilliant Ideas more books like this

by Ronald Louis Docie, Sr.

You've just invented a new technology, a must-have product. So now what? Patent it? Manufacture it? Sell it? Successful inventor and author Ronald Docie shares more than 20 years of valuable insight and experience in "The Inventor's Bible," a guide to taking your ideas from concept to profit in record time. Using real case studies as examples, ...

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Death on the Lizard more books like this

by Robin Paige

After two apparently accidental deaths at a wireless telegraph station, Lord and Lady Sheridan are asked to head the investigation. When a local girl girl drowns, it becomes clear that the deaths and the dirty tricks at the station are related.

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20,000 Baseball Cards Under the Sea more books like this

by Jon Buller, Susan Schade

Roger's friend Kenneth uses an unusual sea vehicle of his own design to take them to an underwater cave, where a cache of old loot gathered by the mermaids turns out to contain a lot of very valuable old baseball cards.

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Girls Think of Everything: Stories of Ingenious Inventions by Women more books like this

by C Thimmesh

Have you ever wondered who invented yummy Toll House cookies? Or who invented Kevlar? They were both women! This book, with multimedia artwork, tells the stories of many women who invented many things that changed people's lives.

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Insisting on the Impossible: The Life of Edwin Land more books like this

by Victor K McElheny

In this masterful biography of the Magellan of modern technology, Victor McElheny portrays a great inventor and entrepreneur in action. Second only to Edison in the number of patents he received (535), Land not only invented instant photography but he built a gigantic enterprise that turned out polarizers, high-speed and x-ray film, identification ...

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Who Was Ben Franklin? more books like this

by Dennis Brindell Fradin, John O'Brien, LL. (Illustrator)

Full of the details kids want to know, the true story of Ben Franklin is by turns funny and sad, but always honest and inspiring. Illustrations.

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Against the Odds: An Autobiography more books like this

by James Dyson

In this updated autobiography, the British inventor of the bagless vacuum cleaner tells the story of his incredible struggle to design and launch a machine that worked better than all others.

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The Last Lone Inventor: A Tale of Genius, Deceit, and the Birth of Television more books like this

by Evan I Schwartz

The compelling story of the David and Goliath clash between Philo T. Farnsworth, the man who invented television, and David Sarnoff, the media tycoon who was head of RCA and founder of NBC--and who took credit for Farnsworth's invention--is finally told. 16 photos.

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Inventing Modern America: From the Microwave to the Mouse more books like this

by Dr. David Brown, Lester C Thurow (Foreword by), James Burke (Introduction by)

Profiles of the inventors of the computer mouse, the traffic light, colored cotton, and the assembly line, are among those included in this compendium of 20th-century American innovations. Through these colorful explanations the century takes shape.

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Tesla: Master of Lightning more books like this

by Margaret Cheney, Robert Uth

Cheney's biography of one of the greatest inventors and scientists of the modern age restores Tesla's precedence as the true inventor of radio, as well as of other remarkable firsts such as the harnessing of alternating current, remotely guided weapons, florescent lighting, and the bladeless turbine. The biography illuminates Tesla's relationships ...

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