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Series
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Description
Shares the inspirational story of African-American inventor Garrett Morgan, whose incredible safety hood became a forerunner to the gas masks that saved thousands of soldiers during World War I.
In 1911, 146 workers died in the shocking Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York City. Morgan decided to invent a safety hood for firefighters-- but people weren't interested in buying his safety hood when they discovered its inventor was black. When...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In her lifetime, Lillian Gilbret was an efficiency expert, an industrial engineer, an inventor, a psychologist, an author, and a professor. Highly intelligent, enormously creative and accomplished, Lillian was the first woman elected to the National Academy of Engineering, the subject of two movies, and had a U.S. postage stamp issued in her honor.
Author
Series
Great idea volume 01
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
570L
Language
English
Description
A biography of George Eastman--the inventor of dry plates, film, and the Brownie camera.
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Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A portrait of the inventor of the Zamboni ice-resurfacing machine recounts how the co-owner of a 1940s skating rink spent nine years designing and building machines that he hoped could safely and quickly shave down pits and grooves on ice.
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