Inventors Who Changed the WorldAge Level: 11–up Grade Level: 6–up From Johnannes Gutenberg’s moveable-type printing press, to J. Robert Oppenheimer’s direction of the Manhattan Project, certain inventors have changed the way we live and the world around us. The INVENTORS WHO CHANGED THE WORLD series showcases many of humanity’s greatest thinkers. Learn about each inventor from childhood to adulthood and capture the exciting moments of their greatest discoveries. Satisfies the Nault typical course of study for the fifth grade science: Scientific Method and Scientific Inquiry. For fifth grade social studies: Industrial and cultural growth Empowering young people with text knowledge backed by the Internet Will save some of the time it takes students, parents, and educators to find Internet sites 30 Report Links per title provide quality Internet sites for further research Supports the Science or Social Studies curricula6 1/2” x 9 1/4” 128pp. Illus. with color and black-and-white photographs and illustrations Contains experiments or activities, a glossary, chapter notes, a further reading list, Internet addresses, and an index Spring 2007 Page 1 of 212 Alexander Graham Bell The Genius Behind the Phone Stephen Feinstein A biography of the curious Scotish-American who is best remembered for inventing the telephone in 1876 but whose devotion to discovery led to improvements in everything from boats and airplanes to machines that helped sick people breathe...Read More Buying Options ISBN: 978-1-59845-055-2 Binding: Library Bound BookList Price: $36.27Discount Price: $27.20 LL Loading… J. Robert Oppenheimer The Brain Behind the Bomb Glenn Scherer and Marty Fletcher In this title in the Inventors Who Changed the World series, Glenn Scherer and Marty Fletcher offer a biography of the brilliant and enigmatic scientist who directed the development of the atomic bomb...Read More Buying Options ISBN: 978-1-59845-050-7 Binding: Library Bound BookList Price: $36.27Discount Price: $27.20 LL Loading… Johannes Gutenberg The Printer Who Gave Words to the World Stephen Feinstein Printed almost 500 years ago, Johannes Gutenberg’s Bible remains a marvel of technology and art. But almost as breathtaking as the book itself, there’s the story of how it all came to be; JOHANNES GUTENBERG introduces readers to Gutenberg and the trials and tribulations he endured as he struggled to devise his system of moveable-type printing...Read More Buying Options ISBN: 978-1-59845-077-4 Binding: Library Bound BookList Price: $36.27Discount Price: $27.20 LL Loading… Louis Pasteur The Father of Microbiology Stephen Feinstein A biography of the nineteenth-century French scientist whose insatiable thirst for discovery not only saved the French silk and wine industries from ruin—and in the latter case, gave us pasteurization—but who also developed the first successful vaccine against rabies, a scourge of nineteenth-century life...Read More Buying Options ISBN: 978-1-59845-078-1 Binding: Library Bound BookList Price: $36.27Discount Price: $27.20 LL Loading… Marconi and Tesla Pioneers of Radio Communication Tim O'Shei Marconi and Tesla worked separately to devise wireless radio technology that would reach around the world. Author Tim O’Shei vividly tells the stories of these two very different men, from their early childhood days to groundbreaking discoveries and innovations...Read More Buying Options ISBN: 978-1-59845-076-7 Binding: Library Bound BookList Price: $36.27Discount Price: $27.20 LL Loading… Philo T. Farnsworth Visionary Inventor of Television Tim O'Shei When Philo T. Farnsworth was fourteen years old, he made sketches for an idea that would add pictures to radio. Fourteen years later, in 1934, the U.S. Patent office recognized Farnsworth as the inventor of television...Read More Buying Options ISBN: 978-1-59845-075-0 Binding: Library Bound BookList Price: $36.27Discount Price: $27.20 LL Loading… Page 1 of 212 Loading… Loading… Loading... Library Bound Book: List Price: $290.16 Discount Price: $217.60 + Add to wish list Please log in Log in or register to create a wish list. Login or Register Loading…