Inventors

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Inventors

From Da Vinci to Biro
1994

George Eastman

1997
Sketches the life from poverty to riches of the inventor of the Kodak camera which made it possible for the ordinary person to take pictures.

Benjamin Franklin

1996
Focuses on Franklin's creative ideas and inventions while also referring to his accomplishments as a writer, publisher, government official, and patriot.

The Wright brothers

1997
Sketches the lives of the two men responsible for the first flight of a machine powered aircraft on December 17, 1903, in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.

Henry Ford

1997
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.

Thomas Edison

1997
Sketches the life of the "Wizard of Menlo Park," the man who patented more than one thousand inventions, the most important of which was the electric light bulb.

Alexander Graham Bell

1997
Sketches the life of the man who at the age of twenty-nine was responsible for the invention of the telephone.
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