Four American Inventors
by Frances M. Perry
Description: Stirring accounts of four of America's greatest inventors: Robert Fulton, Eli Whitney, Samuel F. B. Morse, and Thomas Edison. Emphasis is placed on their formative years and how the skills they acquired then enabled them to meet the challenges they faced later, both in developing and manufacturing their inventions and in achieving widespread public acceptance of them.
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Table of Contents
1. A Boy with Ideas
2. Working Out Some of the Ideas
3. The Young Artist
4. The Artist Becomes an Engineer
5. Experiments
6. Making the Steamboat
7. The Trial Voyage
8. Success
9. Steamboats on the Hudson
10. Other Interests
11. His Work Ended
12. Childhood
13. Youth
14. At Yale
15. In Georgia
16. The Opportunity
17. Making the Cotton Gin
18. Great Expectations
19. Misfortunes
20. In the Courts
21. Making Arms
22. Last Years
23. The Parsonage
24. Early Influences
25. College Life
26. Life in London
27. Painting
28. Abroad Again
29. An Important Voyage
30. Years of Struggle
31. Encouragement
32. Waiting at Last Rewarded
33. The Telegraph
34. The Cable
35. The Inventor at Home
36. Early Years
37. Youthful Business Ventures
38. Study
39. A Change of Business
40. The Boy Telegraph Operator
41. Telegrapher and Inventor
42. In Boston
43. Recognized as an Electrician
44. Inventor and Manufacturer
45. "The Wizard of Menlo Park"
46. Inventions
47. At Orange, New Jersey
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