| Books |
| David Abbott, ed. |
A Biographical Dictionary of Scientists, Engineers and Inventors |
R 500.8 B |
| Neil Baldwin |
Edison: Inventing the Century |
92 Edison |
| James Brodie |
Created Equal: The Lives and Ideas of Black American Innovators |
301.451 B |
| David Brown |
Inventing Modern America: From the Microwave to the Mouse |
NF 609.73 Brown |
| Kenneth Brown |
Inventors at Work: Interviews with 16 Notable American Inventors |
NF 609.2 B |
| Stephen Currie |
African American Inventors |
500.89 Currie |
| Dorothy Eber |
Genius at Work: Images of Alexander Graham Bell |
364.66 Essig |
| Mark Essig |
Edison and the Electric Chair: A Story of Light and Death |
364.66 Essig |
| Benjamin Franklin |
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin |
92 Franklin |
| Charlotte Grey |
Reluctant Genius: Alexander Graham Bell and His Passion for Invention |
92 Bell |
| James Haskins |
Outward Dreams: Black Inventors and Their Inventions |
R 920 H |
| Walter Issacson |
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life |
92 Franklin |
| George Illes |
Leading American Inventors |
926.08 I |
| Jill Jonnes |
Empires of Light: Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse and the Race to Electrify the World |
621.3 Jonnes |
| Dennis Karwatka |
Technology’s Past |
609 Karwatka |
| David Lindsay |
The Patent Files: Dispatches from the Frontiers of Invention |
609.73 Lindsay |
| Beverly Lowry |
Her Dream of Dreams: The Rise and Triumph of Madam C.J. Walker |
92 Walker |
| Henry Petroski |
The Evolution of Useful Things |
609 P |
| Evan Schwartz |
The Last Lone Inventor: A Tale of Genius, Deceit and the Birth of Television |
92 Farnsworth |
| Charles Slack |
Noble Obsession: Charles Goodyear, Thomas Hancock and the Race to Unlock the Greatest Industrial Secret of the 19th Century |
678 Slack |
| Otha Sullivan |
African American Inventors |
R 301.451 A |
| Ethlie Ann Vare |
Mothers of Invention: From the Bra to the Bomb: Forgotten Women and Their Unforgettable Ideas |
609.2 Vare |
| Raymond Webster |
African American Firsts in Science and Technology |
301.451 W |
| Gordon Wood |
The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin |
92 Franklin |
| Audio/Visual |
| Walter Issacson |
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life |
BCD Issacson |
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