Tesla: Man Out of Time72 reviews Margaret Cheney Touchstone, 2001 Excellent biography! + Good history of Tesla + Electrifying Read! + Absolutely mind-boggling             Cyrus McCormick and the Mechanical Reaper (American Business Leaders) Lisa J. Aldrich Morgan Reynolds Publishing, 2002             Flushed With Pride: The Story of Thomas Crapper5 reviews Wallace Reyburn Trafalgar Square Publishing, 1998 An absolute must read! + Cool! + Captivating anecdotal stories We use it every day, several times a day -- the humble flush toilet keeps our homes clean, safe, and odor-free. This amusing little book has the wondrous history of this most wonderful and humble of household objects. You'll never look at your toilet in the same way again.             The John Deere Story: A Biography Of Plowmakers John & Charles Deere1 review Neil Dahlstrom, Jeremy Dahlstrom Northern Illinois University Press, 2005 If you enjoy historical biographies, check this book out! "The John Deere Story" tells a great tale. It focuses on John Deere's development of the modern plow, his successes and failures as a businessman and his business-minded son Charles' success in promoting what is now an international brand. But what also makes this story great is the insight into ...             Wilbur and Orville: A Biography of the Wright Brothers6 reviews Fred Howard Dover Publications, 1998 The thrill of discovery... "October Sky" with grownups... + Riveting Story + Great Approach To A Many-Times-Told Tale + Best Wright biography yet             The Fire of His Genius: Robert Fulton and the American Dream7 reviews Kirkpatrick Sale Free Press, 2002 A FULL HEAD OF STEAM + Striking a balance + Probably the best work on Fulton to date + Fulton and America + pre-industrial genius             James Watt & The Steam Engine (Uncharted, Unexplored, and Unexplained) (Uncharted, Unexplored, and ... Jim Whiting Mitchell Lane Publishers, 2005 James Watt was a sickly boy who was often bullied at school. He wasn't very self-confident and doubted his ability. He was often paralyzed by the fear of going into poverty. He lived most of his life with ferocious headaches. His first wife, who always supported and encouraged him, died when he was still a relatively young man. Yet he overcame these problems to become one of the most important ...             Alfred Nobel : A Biography Kenne Fante Little Brown & Co, 1998             Lightning Man: The Accursed Life of Samuel F. B. Morse4 reviews Kenneth Silverman Knopf, 2003 Morse Rediscovered + Excellent bio of telegraph inventor + More relevant for the inventor today than you can imagine + Fascinating Eye on the Early 19th C. & an American Original             The Wizard of Menlo Park: How Thomas Alva Edison Invented the Modern World12 reviews Randall E. Stross Three Rivers Press, 2008 Uncredited Inventory + Fun / Interesting + Nobody Beats the Wiz! + An Excellent Read About The World's Most Famous Inventor             Gutenberg: How One Man Remade the World with Words8 reviews John Man Wiley, 2002 As real as today + Printing and Culture of the day + GutenGood + Loved it until the end             The Last Lone Inventor: A Tale of Genius, Deceit, and the Birth of Television9 reviews Evan I. Schwartz Harper Paperbacks, 2003 Fascinating and well-executed + If you're seeing the Broadway play, "The Last Lone Inventor" is a must read! + Great story, but misses a few important relevancies + An engaging, quick, entertaining read + Quick read, and honest about the prospects of invention             Benjamin Franklin: An American Life205 reviews Walter Isaacson Simon & Schuster, 2004 Highly readable, non-academic treatment + An insight into one of the greatest lives + A Thorough Biography + Ben Franklin, the good and the bad             The Legend of Goodyear: The First 100 Years1 review Jeffrey L. Rodengen Write Stuff Enterprises, 1997 Surprising reading in an automotive history Before I read this book, I had no idea that a corporate history could be so interesting. But Goodyear has done everything, it seems, including help build NASCAR racing (go Mark Martin!) through its sponsorship and participate in the space program. Surprisingly, the text was engaging and read more ...             Clarence Birdseye (Life of...) M.C. Hall Heinemann Library, 2003 This series tells the stories of famous businesspeople and inventors by introducing evidence that survives from the era in which the person lived. The books use primary source materials to explain how we know about the person's life and how we can learn about events in the past. The books can be used in the Literacy Hour as examples of biographical recount. They support the learning strand "study ...             Mr. Gatling's Terrible Marvel: The Gun That Changed Everything and the Misunderstood Genius Who Invented It10 reviews Julia Keller Viking Adult, 2008 Ms. Keller's Bad Book I bought this book assuming that it it was a biography revealing details of how Gatling's life developed to lead him toward his many accomplishments. it is not; rather it is nine tenths sociological asides. There errors of fact misunderstandings of analysis, poor and inadequate illustrations and in ...             Signor Marconi's Magic Box: The Most Remarkable Invention Of The 19th Century & The Amateur Inventor Whose ...8 reviews Gavin Weightman Da Capo Press, 2004 Good Biography + Like Early Wireless Itself: Useful, but Flawed + Looking (and thinking) inside the box This is a great Biography of Marconi, who is the father of radio. I never read Marconi's story before - it was well worth the wait - the author did a fantastic job with Mr. Marconi's life and his adventures with wireless radio.             Robert Jarvik and the First Artificial Heart (Unlocking the Secrets of Science) John Bankston Mitchell Lane Publishers, 2002 The first patients to receive transplanted and artificial organs died, often after long periods of suffering. Despite these setbacks, the promise of saving a patient's life from an implanted organ was compelling enough to drive doctors and scientists to pursue transplants and artificial organs throughout the 20th century. Eventually, a number of medical pioneers succeeded in transplanting organs, ...             George Eastman: The Kodak Camera Man (Famous Inventors) Carin T. Ford Enslow Elementary, 2004             Rocket Man: Robert H. Goddard and the Birth of the Space Age10 reviews David A. Clary Hyperion, 2004 Outstanding + A fine biography + Sympathetic portrait of the man behind the myth + Number One Rocket Man: Legendary Robert Goddard.