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Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, an imprint of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
118 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm
Description
"Flying cars are real! This book for young readers combines history, biography, technology, and humor in a breezy survey of hybrid vehicles and the dream of flight that kept inventors at work despite many failures and the dictates of common sense"--
Series
Publisher
Listening Library
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
6 CDs (6 hr., 12 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The "Who was?" series offers a detailed account of a famous figure's life. Scientists and investors set: Neil Armstrog, Marie Curie, Ben Franklin, Galileo, Jane Goodall, Steve Jobs.
204) The vagabonds
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
8 CDs (9 hrs. 30 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In 1914 Henry Ford and naturalist John Burroughs visited Thomas Edison in Florida and toured the Everglades. The following year Ford, Edison, and tire maker Harvey Firestone joined together on a summer camping trip and decided to call themselves the Vagabonds. They would continue their summer road trips until 1925, when they announced that their fame made it too difficult for them to carry on. Although the Vagabonds traveled with an entourage of...
205) Tempt me at twilight
Author
Series
Hathaways volume 3
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
373 p. ; 18 cm.
Description
"Poppy Hathaway loves her unconventional family, though she longs for normalcy. Then fate leads to a meeting with Harry Rutledge, an enigmatic hotel owner and inventor with wealth, power, and a dangerous hidden life. When their flirtation compromises her own reputation, Poppy shocks everyone by accepting his proposal--only to find that her new husband offers her his passion, but not his trust..."--p.[4] of cover.
207) Eureka: Season one
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (ca. 558 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In the quirky town of Eureka, America's brightest scientists are working on some of the government's best-kept secrets-- some lead to brilliant inventions and some to total chaos. Making sense of the mysteries is Sheriff Jack Carter, a former U.S. marshal who is stranded in the surreal small town after a random car accident.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers/Penguin Group
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 31 cm.
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Description
Detailed tribute to the life and work of the Founding Father that augments parchment-style spreads with intricate artwork, engaging facts and evocative quotes.
209) Pigs might fly
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
©2017.
Physical Desc
203 pages : chiefly color illustrations, color map ; 22 cm.
Description
"All the sensible hogfolk in Pigdom Plains know that if pigs were meant to fly, they'd have been born with wings--but there's no convincing Lily Leanchops. The daughter of renowned inventor Hercules Fatchops, Lily has watched her father's flying machines fail time and time again. Working in secret, Lily is trying to build what her father couldn't: an aircraft that actually works. And of course, she's following his example and employing scientific...
Author
Publisher
Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
655 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Description
"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 geodesic dome, he enthralled a vast popular audience, inspired...
211) The inventor
Author
Publisher
Breaking Glass Pictures
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"The insatiably curious and headstrong Leonardo da Vinci leaves Italy to join the French court, where he can experiment freely, inventing flying contraptions, incredible machines, and study the human body. There, joined in his adventure by the audacious princess Marguerite, Leonardo will uncover the answer to the ultimate question--What is the meaning of it all?"--
212) A sign of her own
Author
Publisher
Park Row Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
369 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
Inspired by a true story, describes the life of Ellen Lark, a deaf woman who became a favorite student of Alexander Graham Bell while he raced against Western Union to cast a human voice over wires.
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