Listed on this page are a sample of those we have used with a brief outline of the nature of the story. The Voyage of the Sully. Painter Finley Morse travels to the US on a Packet boat in the 1830's, meets and discusses electricity with fellow journeymen and aboard ship invents the telegraph system on paper alone.
Students make telegraph sounders and keys and work with a partner to create a telegraph system.
Carrie Everson conducts chemical experiments with various ores and discovers the oil flotation system of ore extraction that she demonstrates in Baker City and which became an important tool in mining of precious minerals. The delving of ores into composite minerals and the identification of valuable resources. The Assassination of a President. Alexander Graham Bell is called to help find the bullet lodged in President Garfield subsequent to the attack of angry office seeker. From these known technologies further systems can be invented.