Inventors, makers, barrier breakers /
What does it take to change the world? This book provides inspiring, in-depth stories of more than 25 diverse American inventors and entrepreneurs from Colonial times to the present. Richly illustrated with photographs in color and black-and-white, Inventors, Makers, Barrier Breakers focuses on the process of invention, its joys and frustrations, social progress, and the obstacles each inventor had to overcome. -- page [4] of cover.
Maps on lining papers.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
What does it take to change the world? This book provides inspiring, in-depth stories of more than 25 diverse American inventors and entrepreneurs from Colonial times to the present. Richly illustrated with photographs in color and black-and-white, Inventors, Makers, Barrier Breakers focuses on the process of invention, its joys and frustrations, social progress, and the obstacles each inventor had to overcome. -- page [4] of cover.
Lightning tamer: Benjamin Franklin -- Patents and promise: Thomas Jefferson -- Inventors slave and free: Benjamin Montgomery and other early African American inventors -- Scattered genius: Alexander Graham Bell -- Hair care millionaires: Annie Turnbo Malone and Madame C.J. Walker -- A feeling for plants: George Washington Carver -- Feeding the world: Norman Borlaug -- Food, glorious food: Popcorn, waffles, and more (Pre-history to modern times) -- Blood of life: Charles Drew -- To conquer cancer: Gertrude Elion -- Computer whisperer: Grace Hopper -- Core memories: An Wang -- The chip that changed the world: Robert Noyce -- Electronics visionary: Gordon Moore -- Fun and games: Boards and water guns (1879-present) -- DNA wrangler: Lydia Villa-Komaroff -- Interplanetary dreams: Elon Musk -- What about you?
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