Benjamin Franklin
A brief biography of founding father, statesman, diplomat, and inventor, Benjamin Franklin.
920
year: 2006
copies: 55
call number/section: 920
lexile: 690
Guglielmo Marconi
Describes the life and work of the Italian inventor, who was a pioneer in the development of the radio.
920
year: 2001
copies: 6
call number/section: 920
lexile:
Communications
Discusses the scientists and inventors responsible for the advances in communications technology, including Johann Gutenberg, Samuel Morse, Thomas Edison, and Philo Farnsworth.
920
year: 1997
copies: 4
call number/section: 920
lexile:
subjects: inventors [X], communication and technology, communication, scientist, technology and invention
Scientists And Inventors
Alphabetical articles profile the life and work of notable scientists and inventors from antiquity to the present, beginning with Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz and concluding with the Wright Brothers.
920
year: 1999
copies: 5
call number/section: 920
lexile:
Distant Waves
In the early twentieth century, four sisters and their widowed mother, a famed spiritualist, travel from New York to London, and as the Titanic conveys them and their acquaintances, journalist W.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 42
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 790
subjects: tesla, nikola, astor, john jacob, stead, w. t, spiritualists, sisters, mothers and daughters, inventors [X], new york (state), london (england), great britain, mother-daughter relationship, historical fiction, inventors - ficiton, mothers and daughters - fiction, sisters - fiction, spiritualists - fiction
Storm
The teenaged geniuses of STORM, a secret organization dedicated to eliminating the world's misery through science and technology, head to the Swiss Alps seeking the last of six scientists whose Project FIREball is of interest to MI6, the CIA, and an unknown assasin.
FIC
year: 2009
copies: 3
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 510
subjects: secret societies, scientists, inventors [X], spies, adventure fiction, swiss alps (switzerland), switzerland
Benjamin Franklin
A biography of Benjamin Franklin that follows his life from birth, in 1706, to death, in 1790, and covers the work he did as an author, publisher, philosopher, scientist and diplomat as well as his contributions to the United States Constitution.
920
year: 2008
copies: 22
call number/section: 920
lexile: 1010
Edison's Gold
Tom Edison, the thirteen-year-old great-great-grandson of the famous inventor, finds a clue to his ancestor's legendary secret formula for changing metal into gold, and while he searches desperately for the key to the life-changing discovery, he must also evade billionaire Curtis Keller and his minions, who want the formula to seize control of the world.
FIC
year: 2010
copies: 5
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 880
Benjamin Franklin
A brief biography of Benjamin Franklin that discusses his childhood, work as a printer and author, family, inventions, career as a diplomat, and role in the drafting of the Declaration of Independence and U.
920
year: 2008
copies: 3
call number/section: 920
lexile:
Steve Jobs
Offers a brief overview of the life and career of Steve Jobs, discussing his childhood, innovations, influences, challenges, achievements, and more.
920
year: 2012
copies: 7
call number/section: 920
lexile: 880
Electric Ben
An illustrated biography of Founding Father and inventor Benjamin Franklin.
920
year: 2012
copies: 59
call number/section: 920
lexile: 1050
Who Was Steve Jobs?
Examines the life and accomplishments of computer industry pioneer Steve Jobs, a founder of Apple Computer, Inc.
920
year: 2012
copies: 93
call number/section: 920
lexile: 660
subjects: jobs, steve, businessmen, computer engineers, inventors [X], apple computer, inc, engineers, businesspeople
Leonardo Da Vinci
A graphic novel biography of Renassance Italy's artist, scientist, and inventor Leonardo da Vinci, discussing his early years, life in various parts of Italy, his development as an artist, and his forays into science, architecture, and invention.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 4
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
The Wright Brothers
A graphic novel biography of the lives and careers of Orville and Wilbur Wright, the Dayton, Ohio, brothers credited with the creation of mechanical flight.
920
year: 2011
copies: 2
call number/section: 920
lexile: