This book describes the life of Stephanie Kwolek, who, as a child, shifted from perfect sewing to precise chemistry experiments and invented Kevlar, thread stronger than steel that could stop bullets.
This book describes the life of Les Paul, who taught himself to play the harmonica and who invented the Les Paul Gibson guitars, the solid wood block guitars, and the sound-on-sound that recorded layer over layer of music and voices.
This book describes the life of Vivien Theodore Thomas, who became an assistant to Dr. Alfred Blalock in a research lab at Vanderbilt University Medical School, who invented a clamp to stop bleeding, and who became an instructor of surgery.
