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Benjamin Franklin

author: Satterfield, Kathryn Hoffman
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

author: Birch, Beverley
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:
subjects: marconi, guglielmo, inventors [X], radio, scientist

Communications

author: Streissguth, Thomas
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
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Scientists And Inventors

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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:
subjects: scientists, inventors [X], biography, scientist

Great Inventors And Inventions

author: Lafontaine, Bruce
920
year: 1997
copies: 2
call number/section: 920
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Distant Waves

author: Weyn, Suzanne
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

Storm

author: Young, E. L
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

Benjamin Franklin

author: Krensky, Stephen
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

author: Watson, Geoff
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

author: Donlan, Leni
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
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Steve Jobs

author: Doeden, Matt
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

author: Byrd, Robert
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?

author: Pollack, Pam
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

Leonardo Da Vinci

author: Danko, Dan
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
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The Wright Brothers

author: Helfand, Lewis
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
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