Inventors Further Reading

to inventors Game to Brush to Kettering
to Inventors Learning Links to Compton to Woods
to Edison to Orville Wright
to Other Ohioans to Hall to Wilbur Wright


Brush
   

Youth

Leuzzi, Linda, Industry and Business. Chelsea House, 1997.

Sandler, Martin W., Inventors. Harper Collins Publishers, 1996.

Adult

Brush, Charles F., Charles Francis Brush. 1930.

Cox, James A., A Century of Light. Benjamin Co., 1979.

Van Tassel, David D., Encyclopedia of Cleveland History. Indiana University Press, 1996.
 


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Compton
   

Bartlett, Robert Merrill, They Stand Invincible: Men Who are Reshaping Our World. Crowell, 1959.

Ohio Biographical Dictionary. American Historical Publications, 1986.

Stuewer, Roger H., The Compton Effect: Turning Point in Physics. Science History Publications, 1975.
 


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Edison
   

Youth

Clements, Gillian, The Picture History of Great Inventors. Alfred A. Knopf, 1994.

Davidson, Margaret, The Story of Thomas Alva Edison, Inventor: the Wizard of Menlo Park. Scholastic, 1964.

Lomask, Milton, Inventions and Great Lives. Macmillan, 1991.

Morgan, Nina, Thomas Edison. Bookwright Press, 1991.

Sabin, Louis. Thomas Alva Edison, Young Inventor. Troll, c1983.

Wymer, Norman, History Eye-witness. Hamlyn, 1981.

Adult

Bedik, Shelley. Thomas Edison, Great American Inventor. 1995 New York, Scholastic, 1995.

Bourne, Russell, ed., The Smithsonian Book of Invention. W. W. Norman & Company, 1978.

Clark, Ronald W., Edison, the Man Who Made the Future. Putnam, 1977.

Conot, Robert A., A Streak of Luck. Seaview Books, 1975.

Crowther, James Gerald, Famous American Men of Science. Books for Libraries Press, 1969.

Friedel, Robert Douglas, Edison's Electric Light: Biography of an Invention. Rutgers University Press, 1986.

Frost, Lawrence A., The Edison Album; A Pictorial Biography of Thomas Alva Edison. Superior Pub. Co., 1969.

Hutchings, David W., Edison at Work; the Thomas A. Edison Laboratory at West Orange. Hastings House, 1969.

Josephson, Matthew. Edison: A Biography. J. Wiley, 1992.

McClure, J. B., Edison and His Inventions: Including the many Incidents, Anecdotes, and Interesting Particulars Connected with the Early and Late Life of the Great Inventor ... Rhodes & McClure, 1894.

Melosi, Martin V., Thomas A. Edison and the Modernization of America. Scott, Foresman/Little Brown Higher Education, 1990.

Newhouse, Elizabeth L., ed., Inventors and Discoverers: Changing Our World. National Geographic Society, 1988.

Ohio Biographical Dictionary. American Historical Publications, 1986.
 


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Hall
   

Holmes, Harry Nicholls, Fifty Years of Industrial. Bulletin of Oberlin college...New series. no. 346, 1937.

Newhouse, Elizabeth L., ed., Inventors and Discoverers: Changing Our World. National Geographic Society, 1988.

Nunn, Emily, The Centenary of Hall's Discovery. Oberlin College, Office of Communications, 1986.

Ohio Biographical Dictionary. American Historical Publications, 1986.
 


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Kettering
   

Youth

Zehnpfennig, Gladys, Charles F. Kettering: Inventor and Realist: A Biographical Sketch of a Man Who Refused to Recognize the Impossible. T.S. Denison, 1962.

Adult

Bourne, Russell, ed., The Smithsonian Book of Invention. W. W. Norman & Company, 1978.

Leslie, Stuart W., Boss Kettering. Columbia University Press, 1983.

Newhouse, Elizabeth L., ed., Inventors and Discoverers: Changing Our World. National Geographic Society, 1988.

Young, Rosamond McPherson, Boss Kettering; A Life of Charles F. Kettering. Longmans, Green, 1961.
 


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Woods
   

Haber, Louis. Black Pioneers of Science and Invention Harcourt, Brace & World, 1970.

Hayden, Robert C., 9 African American Inventors. Twenty-First Century Books, 1992.
 


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Orville Wright
   

Youth

Aaseng, Nathan, Twentieth-Century Inventors. Facts on File, 1991.

Clements, Gillian, The Picture History of Great Inventors. Alfred A. Knopf, 1994.

Lomask, Milton, Inventions and Great Lives. Macmillan, 1991.

Sabin, Louis, Wilbur and Orville Wright: the Flight to Adventure. Troll Associates, 1983.

Taylor, Richard L., The First Flight: the Story of the Wright Brothers. F. Watts, 1990.

Wymer, Norman, History Eye-witness. Hamlyn, 1981.

Adult

Bourne, Russell, ed., The Smithsonian Book of Invention. W. W. Norman & Company, 1978.

Crouch, Tom D., The Bishop's Boys: The Life of Wilbur and Orville Wright. W.W. Norton, 1989.

National Air and Space Museum, The Wright brothers. Office of Public Affairs, Smithsonian Institution.

Newhouse, Elizabeth L., ed., Inventors and Discoverers: Changing Our World. National Geographic Society, 1988.

Wright, Orville, How We Invented the Airplane: An Illustrated History. Dover Publications, 1988.

Walsh, John Evangelist, One Day at Kitty Hawk: The Untold Story of the Wright Brothers and the Airplane. Crowell, 1975.
 


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Wilbur Wright
   

Youth

Aaseng, Nathan, Twentieth-Century Inventors. Facts on File, 1991.

Clements, Gillian, The Picture History of Great Inventors. Alfred A. Knopf, 1994.

Lomask, Milton, Inventions and Great Lives. Macmillan, 1991.

Sabin, Louis, Wilbur and Orville Wright: the Flight to Adventure. Troll Associates, 1983.

Taylor, Richard L., The First Flight: the Story of the Wright Brothers. F. Watts, 1990.

Wymer, Norman, History Eye-witness. Hamlyn, 1981.

Adult

Bourne, Russell, ed., The Smithsonian Book of Invention. W. W. Norman & Company, 1978.

Crouch, Tom D., The Bishop's Boys: The Life of Wilbur and Orville Wright. W.W. Norton, 1989.

National Air and Space Museum, The Wright brothers. Office of Public Affairs, Smithsonian Institution.

Newhouse, Elizabeth L., ed., Inventors and Discoverers: Changing Our World. National Geographic Society, 1988.

Wright, Orville, How We Invented the Airplane: An Illustrated History. Dover Publications, 1988.

Walsh, John Evangelist, One Day at Kitty Hawk: The Untold Story of the Wright Brothers and the Airplane. Crowell, 1975.
 


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