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Found 6 from your keywords: subject="Inventors"
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Thomas Edison: His electrifying life
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Lacayo, Richard

Provides an overview of the inventions, patents and technological advances pioneered by the "Wizard of Menlo Park" as well as his concentration on industrial research and his flair for marketing and promotion.

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9781603201421
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925 LAC t
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Eureka: How invention happens
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Weightman, Gavin

While the discoveries of scientists have provided vital knowledge which has made innovation possible, it is more often than not the amateur who enjoys the "eureka moment" when an invention works for the first time. Weightman tells fascinating stories of struggle, rivalry, and the ingenuity of both famous inventors and hundreds of forgotten people, and offers a fresh take on the making of our mo…

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9780300192087
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600 WEI e
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The boy who harnessed the wind: Creating currents of electricity and hope
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Kamkwamba, WilliamMealer, Bryan

An enterprising teenager in Malawi builds a windmill from scraps he finds around his village and brings electricity, and a future, to his family.

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9780061730337
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621.312136092 KAM b
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Doctor Proctor's fart powder
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Nesbo, Jo

When a Russian billionaire robs the Norwegian Gold Reserve and melts the last remaining gold bar into the Premier Soccer League trophy, it's up to Doctor Proctor, Nilly, and Lisa to recapture it.

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9781471125355
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265 p. ; ill.
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F NES d
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The long Mars
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Pratchett, TerryBaxter, Stephen

In the years after the cataclysmic Yellowstone eruption there is massive economic dislocation as populations flee Datum Earth to myriad Long Earth worlds. Sally, Joshua, and Lobsang are all involved in this perilous rescue work when, out of the blue, Sally is contacted by her long-vanished father and inventor of the original Stepper device, Willis Linsay. He tells her he is planning a fantastic…

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9780062297297
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351 p.
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F PRA l
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Men who united the States: America's explorers, inventors, eccentrics, and ma…
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Winchester, Simon

When America's story was dominated by wood, 1785-1805. A view across the ridge ; Drawing a line in the sand ; Peering through the trees ; The frontier and the thesis ; The wood was become grass ; Encounters with the Sioux ; First lady of the plains ; High plains rafters ; Passing the gateway ; Shoreline passagernWhen America's story went beneath the Earth, 1809-1901. The lasting benefit of harm…

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First edition.
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9780062079602
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xxv, 463 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
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973 WIN m