Shortchanged by history
Subtitle: America's neglected innovators
By: by Vernon Pizer ; illustrated by Catherine Stock.
Contributors: Stock, Catherine.
Publisher: Putnam
Published: 1979
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 158
Subjects: Inventors -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.; Inventors.
Description: Discusses the lives and contributions of little-known inventors in American history including Joseph Jenks who invented a more efficient scythe and James Buchanan Eads who completed and launched the first ironclad in American waters.
Notes: Includes index.