Great Inventors and Their Inventions
by Frank P. Bachman Author
Twelve stories of great inventions, grouped under inventions of steam and electric power, inventions of manufacture and production, and inventions of printing and communication. The final chapter introduces the famous inventors of the early twentieth century. The story of each invention is interwoven with that of the life of its inventor.
Additional Details
- Resource Type
- e-text
- Print Status
- In Print
- Chapters
- 15
- Pages
- 286
- Suggested Grades
- 4th - 8th
- Historical Setting
- 1765 - 1914
- Publisher
- American Book Company
- Written
- 1918
- URL
- http://www.mainlesson.com/display.php?author=ba...
Chapters
- 1 James Watt & the Invention of the Steam Engine
- 2 Robert Fulton & the Invention of the Steamboat
- 3 George Stephenson & Invention of the Locomotive
- 4 Invention of the Electric Engine
- 5 The Invention of the Spinning Machines
- 5 Eli Whitney & the Invention of the Cotton Gin
- 6 Elias Howe & the Invention of the Sewing Machine
- 7 Cyrun H. McCormick & the Invention of the Reaper
- 8 Henry Bessemer & the Making of Steel
- 9 John Gutenberg & the Invention of Printing
- 10 Samuel F.B Morse & the Invention of the Telegraph
- 11 Alexander Graham Bell & Invention of the Telephone
- 12 Thomas A. Edison
- 13 Orville & Wilbur Wright
- 14 Guglielmo Marconi
- 15 John P. Holland
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