Bibliograph

Inventors, makers, barrier breakers, Pendred Noyce

Type

Label

Inventors, makers, barrier breakers, Pendred Noyce

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.biographical

collective biography

Illustrations

mapsillustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Inventors, makers, barrier breakers

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1028846477

Responsibility statement

Pendred Noyce

Summary

What does it take to change the world? This book provides inspiring, in-depth stories of more than 25 diverse American inventors and entrepreneurs from Colonial times to the present. Richly illustrated with photographs in color and black-and-white, Inventors, Makers, Barrier Breakers focuses on the process of invention, its joys and frustrations, social progress, and the obstacles each inventor had to overcome. -- page [4] of cover

Table Of Contents

Lightning tamer: Benjamin Franklin -- Patents and promise: Thomas Jefferson -- Inventors slave and free: Benjamin Montgomery and other early African American inventors -- Scattered genius: Alexander Graham Bell -- Hair care millionaires: Annie Turnbo Malone and Madame C.J. Walker -- A feeling for plants: George Washington Carver -- Feeding the world: Norman Borlaug -- Food, glorious food: Popcorn, waffles, and more (Pre-history to modern times) -- Blood of life: Charles Drew -- To conquer cancer: Gertrude Elion -- Computer whisperer: Grace Hopper -- Core memories: An Wang -- The chip that changed the world: Robert Noyce -- Electronics visionary: Gordon Moore -- Fun and games: Boards and water guns (1879-present) -- DNA wrangler: Lydia Villa-Komaroff -- Interplanetary dreams: Elon Musk -- What about you?

Target audience

adolescent

Classification