Davis, Lynn

Summary: Discusses the life of Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, an invention that changed the world.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Super Sandcastle, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2016

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

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

Davis, Lynn

Summary: Presents the story of how an eccentric young artist became the inventor of the first telegraph system.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Super Sandcastle, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2016

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

Davis, Lynn

Summary: "The Wright Brothers are famous for their role in the history of flight! Kids can read this book to find out more about the Wright Brothers and how they flew the first airplane. They will learn how the Wright Brothers started a bicycle shop first and how their first flight at Kitty Hawk went"--Publisher's website.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Super Sandcastle, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2016

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 DAV

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

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 MUS

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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: Ken Burns's two-part, four-hour documentary explores the revolutionary life of one of the 18th century's most complex and consequential figures, whose work and words unlocked the mystery of electricity and helped create the United States.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: PBS 2022

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BEN

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DOC BEN

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

Krull, Kathleen.

Summary: This picture-book biography explains how Farnsworth held on to his dream to develop television and the scientific concepts behind it.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2009

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J Invent Krull

Summary: What do the most ravishingly beautiful actress of the 1930s and '40s and the inventor whose concepts were the basis of cell phone and Bluetooth technology have in common? They are both Hedy Lamarr, the glamour icon whose ravishing visage was the inspiration for Snow White and Cat Woman and a technological trailblazer who perfected a radio system to throw Nazi torpedoes off course during WWII.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Kino Lorber 2018

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BOM

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC BOM
1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF BOM

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

Freedman, Russell.

Summary: An introduction to the life of young Benjamin Franklin describes how, as a rebellious teen in 1732, he ran away from his family and a Boston apprenticeship to Philadelphia, and how throughout subsequent decades he rose to become a distinguished statesman, renowned author and world-famous scientist.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2013

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

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB FRANKLIN FRE

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: A close-up look at the life of Alexander Graham Bell, inventor and teacher of the deaf.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2006

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB BELL MIC

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

Brown, David E.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: MIT Press 2001

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 609.73 BRO

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

Smiley, Jane.

Summary: One night in the late 1930s, in a bar on the Illinois-Iowa border, John Vincent Atanasoff, a professor of physics at Iowa State University, after a frustrating day performing tedious mathematical calculations in his lab, hit on the idea that the binary number system and electronic switches, combined with an array of capacitors on a moving drum to serve as memory, could yield a computing machine...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2010

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ATANASOFF, JOHN V SMI

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

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

Silverman, Kenneth.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2003

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 621.383 SIL

Srodes, James.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Regnery Pub. 2002

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FRA