Inventors Science

History books tell us that certain events happened and leaders were involved. However, this history book will tell us the outcomes of the Industrial Revolution that can still be felt today. The steam engine and transportation are only some of the legacies of the IR. Would you like to know more? Then listen to this book today!

Let’s talk about the 19th century as a time when much of our necessities were answered with technology. Let’s talk about the 19th century with answers to economic riddles. This biography book for fifth graders features the likes of The Wright Brothers, Samuel F. Morse, Louis Braille, Elijah McCoy, Madam CJ Walker, and Alexander Graham Bell. Listen to their stories. Begin today.

Alexander Graham Bell opened the doors to improving telecommunications between humans. He invented the telephone, and the inventors after him kept making new and better versions. Listening about his life will reveal the challenges he had to overcome. Such revelation could also improve how you deal with problems today.

Isaac Newton was very smart. He formulated some of the laws that have made technology possible. Learn about the life and works of Isaac Newton in this book for third graders. Be inspired by his decisions and his determination. So, what are you waiting for? Go ahead and grab a copy today!

Who were the Wright Brothers? This biography book for third graders will allow you to get to know them by listening to the story about their lives and works.

Steve Jobs is known to be a genius who wouldn’t settle for mediocre results. Because of his intense desire for perfection, he created great products that have changed how technology looks today. Listening about inspiring true to life stories will create a feeling of wanting to be as great as the subjects. In this case, find out if listening to his story want you be like Steve Jobs!

Today, let’s meet Thomas Edison and know him as the man with 1093 patents. Looking at the number of patents, you can already tell that Edison was a brilliant inventor. Listening to his story will probably give you the boost of self-confidence that you need to also follow your own dreams. So what are you waiting for? Go ahead and grab a copy today!

Wilbur and Orville Wright have gone down in history as pioneers of flight and the inventors of the first airplane. This is the story of how their mechanical interest in printing presses and bicycles led them towards finding solutions to the conundrum of flight. Find out how their methodological research and innovative ideas set them apart from other inventors, and learn about the newspaper editors and scientists’ reactions to the Wright brothers’ achievement - the slow transformation of skepticism and disbelief to amazement.

Do you want to think like the man who perfected his mind, thoughts, and focus? Well...then you need to learn more about the great inventor Thomas Edison. Thomas Alva Edison, one of the world’s greatest inventors, was born in Milan, a little canal town in Erie County, Ohio, on February 11, 1847. On his father’s side, he was descended from an excellent family of Dutch millers. They lived in New Netherland but eventually moved to New Jersey in the year 1737.

Michael Faraday is regarded as one of the founding fathers of modern physics. His work in the field of electromagnetism revolutionized society, leading to new avenues of study and developments of technology that would leave the world changed forever. Without Faraday’s discoveries, there would be no electronics or electrical power. There would be no technology as we recognize it, or at the very least those technologies would have taken much longer to arise, causing our time to look very different.

Educator. Innovator. Inventor. These three words sum up Alexander Graham Bell, one of the greatest scientific men of his era. He is most famous for the invention of the telephone, a device which he predicted would transform human society. And it did. But the telephone is just one of the many innovations and inventions that Bell brought into being. A man who epitomizes the word visionary, Alexander Graham Bell predicted the use of light as a medium for transmitting information and how humanity would be transformed by flight. This is his story.

Founding Father Benjamin Franklin came from humble beginnings to take his place in the annals of history as one of the most celebrated Americans ever to stand on the world stage. The Boston apprentice who ran away because of his brother's ill-treatment found his destiny in Philadelphia, where he became a printer, a scientist, an author, an inventor, a politician, and a citizen of the world. His inventions and his philosophies had the same ultimate goal - to make the world a better place - and Franklin achieved that goal.

The Ghost of Kaiser Rock is a mixture of ghost stories circulating around a small town named Butler. It fits in quite well with helloween. The story about a young boy's short journey down a darkened road in his country neighborhood finishes up the book, but it certainly doesn't end the suspense.

Nicholas always felt someday he would do great things, but he never expected it to be so special. He always loved working with his hands, building things of all kind. He, especially, enjoyed making toys for the children in town. He even fixed broken toys for the children they would drop off. Nicholas also loved working with all the different animals on his pa's farm. If one would get sick, he would stay up all night tending to it.

The Six Wrinkled Pickles is a fictional story about a young boy's dealings with adults. The neighbors feel they pulled a fast one on little Johnny, but they're in for a rude awakening.

Tom gets to take all sorts of cool classes at the Swift Academy of Science and Technology, but robotics may be the one he is most excited for. Their teacher is holding a battling robot tournament, and Tom has to build a machine that will come out on top. With the final battle coming up, Tom and his friends need as much time as possible to refine their masterpiece. But the rest of their teachers have been giving so many pop quizzes that they can barely focus in class, never mind concentrate on the tournament.

In Wonder Women, author Sam Maggs tells the stories of the brilliant, brainy, and totally rad women in history who broke barriers as scientists, engineers, mathematicians, adventurers, and inventors. Also features interviews with real-life women in STEM careers, an extensive bibliography, and a guide to women-centric science and technology organizations - all to show the many ways the geeky girls of today can help to build the future.

In 1903, five truly brilliant young inventors, the children of the world's most important scientists, went about their lives and their work as they always had. But all that changed the day the men in black arrived. They arrived to take twelve-year-old Jasper Modest and his six-year-old sister, Lucy he with his remarkable creations and she with her perfect memory from their London, England home to a place across the ocean they'd never seen before.

A search for the contemporary Nikola Tesla - considered a mad scientist by his society for predicting global warming more than 100 years ago - fuels this analysis of climate issues, which introduces thinkers and inventors who are working to find possible ways out of the energy crisis. From Louis Michaud, a retired refinery engineer who claims we can harness the energy of man-made tornadoes, to a professor and a businessman who are running a company that genetically modifies algae so it can secrete ethanol naturally, these individuals and their unorthodox methods are profiled.

One beastly beast that's more than meets the eye.... Two aliens with slimy tentacles and too many eyes fixed on adopting a human son.... Three inventors and a sea serpent, a princess, an orphanage, and two ships full of pirates.... Here are four fantastic tales by renowned fantasy author Garth Nix.