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Coller, Jeremy.
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Splendidly unreasona...
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Splendidly unreasonable inventors : the lives, loves and deaths of 30 pioneers who changed the world / Jeremy Coller with Christine Chamberlain.
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Coller, Jeremy.
New York, N.Y. : Overlook Press, c2009.
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Inventions.
Inventors.
ISBN:
9781590202692 :
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viii, 214 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Edition:
1st ed.
Contents:
King Camp Gilette: that one big idea -- Chester Carlson: one big chance -- Isaac Merritt Singer: a toad in his time -- Kokichi Mikimoto: pearls of wisdom -- John Stith Pemberton: the gift of addiction -- Alfred Bernhard Nobel: Mr. Dynamite -- Samuel Colt: the big bang -- Bette Nesmith Graham: disappearing act -- Marc Isambard Brunel: tunnel vision -- Isambard Kingdom Brunel: the biggest and the best -- John Holland: taking a dip -- Rudolf Diesel: internal combustion -- George Selden: road hog -- Percy Shaw: eye catcher -- Charles Goodyear: cooking caoutchouc -- Eli Whitney: running wild -- William Thomas Green Morton: confidence man -- Jonas Salk: a pass at the moon -- Paul Winchell: the way to an artificial heart -- Albert Coombs Barnes: playing with art -- Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis: I speak but no one will listen -- Thomas Alva Edison: the wizard -- Nikola Tesla: the magician -- Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince: where in the world? -- Auguste and Louis Lumière: the magic box -- William Bradford Shockley: Doctor Beep Beep -- Alexander Graham Bell: business calls -- Samuel Finley Breese Morse: lightning line -- Sir Charles Wheatstone: an empty chair -- Charles Proteus Steinmetz: gentle giant.
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