Chronicles the life and achievements of the NASA engineer and inventor, from his childhood to his accidental invention of the Super Soaker water gun.

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

Back in the 1800s, information traveled slowly. Who would dream of instant messages? Samuel Morse, thats who! Who traveled to France, where the famous telegraph towers relayed 10,000 possible codes for messages depending on the signal arm positionsonly if the weather was clear? Who imagined a system that would use electric pulses to instantly carry coded messages between two machines, rain or shine? Long before the first telephone, who changed communication...

An introduction to the life of Thomas Alva Edison, whose many inventions included the phonograph and the light bulb.

A biography of the eighteenth-century printer, inventor, and statesman who played an influential role in the early history of the United States.

Benjamin Franklin is perhaps the most remarkable figure in American history: the greatest statesman of his age, he played a pivotal role in the formation of the American republic. He was also a pioneering scientist, a best-selling author, the country's first postmaster general, a printer, a bon vivant, a diplomat, a ladies' man, and a moralist, and the most prominent celebrity of the 18th century. Franklin was, however, a man of vast contradictions,...

Introduces the life and accomplishments of the statesman, scientist, inventor, and Founding Father of the United States.