The Picture History of Great Inventors
by Gillian Clements Author
An entertaining and fact-packed introduction to the great inventors of the world and their inventions. Follow the lives and work of over 50 major innovators as you set off on a journey from the earliest inventions in recorded history to the most recent developments in science and technology.
Additional Details
- Resource Type
- Book
- ISBN
- 9781893103139
- Print Status
- In Print
- Chapters
- 52
- Pages
- 77
- Suggested Grades
- 3rd - 6th
- Historical Setting
- 5000 BC - 1990 AD
- Publisher
- Dealerfield Ltd.
- Copyright
- 1993
Chapters
- 1 The Earliest Inventions
- 2 Archimedes
- 3 Hero of Alexandria
- 4 Medieval Inventions
- 5 Johann Gutenberg
- 6 Leonardo da Vinci
- 7 Gerardus Mercator
- 8 Christiaan Huygens
- 9 Galileo Galilei
- 10 Blaise Pascal
- 11 Isaac Newton
- 12 Antoine van Leeuwenhoek
- 13 Thomas Newcomen
- 14 Benjamin Franklin
- 15 Richard Arkwright
- 16 James Watt
- 17 The Montgolfier Brothers
- 18 Antoine Lavoisier
- 19 Edward Jenner
- 20 Alessandro Volta
- 21 Baron von Drais von Sauerbronn
- 22 Charles Babbage
- 23 Charles Macintosh
- 24 Joseph Nicéphore Niepce
- 25 George Stephenson
- 26 Samuel Morse
- 27 Samuel Colt
- 28 Michael Faraday
- 29 Etienne Lenoir
- 30 I.K. Brunel
- 31 Elisha Otis
- 32 Edwin Drake
- 33 Alfred Nobel
- 34 Joseph Lister
- 35 Thomas Edison
- 36 Alexander Graham Bell
- 37 Karl Benz and Gottlieb Daimler
- 38 The Lumière Brothers
- 39 The Wright Brothers
- 40 Guglielmo Marconi
- 41 Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
- 42 Albert Einstein
- 43 John Logie Baird
- 44 Laszlo Biro
- 45 Frank Whittle
- 46 Mauchly and Eckert
- 47 Enrico Fermi
- 48 Christopher Cockerell
- 49 Theodore Maiman
- 50 The Seventies
- 51 The Eighties
- 52 The Nineties
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