From the dust jacket:
"Mankind inventing or mankind discovering the techniques that make inventions possible would seem to be mankind at his most human. Other animals must take their environment as they find it. Only homo sapiens, "thinking man," can change his environment..."
In this volume are the spellbinding stories of twenty-seven diverse people whose inventions or scientific discoveries altered our world, transforming the way we think, act, and live. They include such well-known figures of the past as Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas Alva Edison, Robert Fulton, Eli Whitney, and the Wright brothers. Here, too, are inventors who have influenced contemporary life, people such as Carl Benz, builder of the first automobile powered by an internal-combustion engine; Enrico Fermi, builder of the first atomic reactor, Robert Goddard, developer of the liquid-fuel rocket; and Jack St. Claire Kilby and Robert Norton Noyce, inventors of the microchip.
Milton Lomask's clear, lively text captures the wonder and excitement of discovery.
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