Pollack, Pam.

Summary: Examines the life and accomplishments of computer industry pioneer Steve Jobs, a founder of Apple Computer, Inc.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap 2012

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB BASKET JOBS

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1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT People Who Jobs

Carlson, W. Bernard

Summary: "This is a biography of one of the major 20th-century scientists, Nikola Tesla. It is interdisciplinary, containing accounts of U.S. manufacturing in the early 1900s and other contemporary cultural materials"-

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD 921 TESLA, NICOLA CAR

Carson, Mary Kay.

Summary: Profiles the life of the inventor of video games, discussing how he came up with the idea and early games he invented.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Enslow Elementary 2012

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 BAE

Isaacson, Walter

Summary: As a kid in South Africa, Musk was regularly beaten by bullies; he once was in the hospital for a week after a beating. But the physical scars were minor compared to the emotional ones inflicted by his father, an engineer, rogue, and charismatic fantasist. Musk developed into a man-child, with an exceedingly high tolerance for risk, a craving for drama, an epic sense of mission, and a maniacal...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MUSK, ELON ISA
1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLE

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1 available in Adult, Call number: B MUSK MUS

Summary: "Nikola Tesla has come to be seen by many as a tragic figure, a visionary engineer who died impoverished and largely forgotten--eclipsed by names such as Edison and Marconi. A tireless inventor who registered numerous patents and developed many working prototypes, Tesla would become most famous for his dazzling demonstrations. Audiences flocked to see him send thousands of volts of electricity...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV TES

Nevala-Lee, Alec

Summary: "From Alec Nevala-Lee, the author of the Hugo and Locus Award finalist Astounding, comes a revelatory biography of the visionary designer who defined the rules of startup culture and shaped America's idea of the future. During his lifetime, Buckminster Fuller was hailed as one of the greatest geniuses of the twentieth century. As the architectural designer and futurist best known for the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FULLER, BUCKMINSTER NEV

Summary: Recount the life of scientist, inventor, and visionary Nikola Tesla, often remembered as more of an eccentric cult figure than an electrical engineering genius. Tesla's suprising inventions are revealed in his autobiographical and scientific writings.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2007

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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV TES

DeGraaf, Leonard

Summary: Chronicles the life and work of the inventor through primary and previously unseen sources, including personal and business correspondence, photographs, drawings, advertising materials, and lab notebooks.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Pub Co Inc 2013

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 EDISON, THOMAS DEG

Morris, Edmund

Summary: Edmund Morris writes about a man who was arguably the most famous in the world when he died in 1931, so revered for his perfection of the incandescent light bulb that President Hoover proposed darkening the entire United States for one minute on the night of his funeral. For the rest of the twentieth century, Edison's image, polished by his additional fame as the inventor of the phonograph, the...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD B MOR

Wozniak, Steve

Summary: Once upon a time, computers looked like big, alien vending machines. They had large screens, cryptic switches, huge boxes, and odd lights. But in 1975, a young engineering wizard named Steve Wozniak had an idea: What if you combined computer circuitry with a regular typewriter keyboard and a video screen? The result was the first true personal computer, the Apple I. Widely affordable and easily...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Co. 2006

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WOZNIAK, STEVE WOZ

Morris, Edmund

Summary: From Pulitzer Prize-winning author Morris comes a revelatory new biography ofThomas Alva Edison, the most prolific genius in American history.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2019

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 EDISON, THOMAS MOR

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1 available in Adult, Call number: B EDISON MOR

Baldwin, J.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: John Wiley 1996

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 620 BAL

Cawthorne, Nigel

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Sci Eng Cawthorne

Tesla, Nikola

Summary: Serbian inventor Nikola Tesla was a revolutionary scientist whose greatest invention, A/C current, powers almost all of the technological wonders in the world today.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: SoHo Books 2012

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Sci EngTesla

Schwartz, Evan I.

Summary: Traces the invention of the television by Philo T. Farnsworth and the determined but losing battle he fought with David Sarnoff, the head of RCA and founder of NBC, to hold onto his creation in the face of corporate competition.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2002

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 621.388 SCH

Wozniak, Steve

Summary: Once upon a time, computers looked like big, alien vending machines. They had large screens, cryptic switches, huge boxes, and odd lights. But in 1975, a young engineering wizard named Steve Wozniak had an idea: What if you combined computer circuitry with a regular typewriter keyboard and a video screen? The result was the first true personal computer, the Apple I. Widely affordable and easily...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media 2006

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 WOZNIAK, STEVE Woz

Guinn, Jeff

Summary: "A brilliant portrait of two American giants, Thomas Edison and Henry Ford, and America entering the automobile age, told through the fascinating but little-known narrative of the summer road trips taken by Edison and Ford"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2019

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 GUI

Sutcliffe, Andrea.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2004

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 623.8722 SUT