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The Marvelous Thing That Came from a Spring: The Accidental Invention of the Toy That Swept the Nation

By Gilbert Ford

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Hardcover:

9781481450652 | Atheneum, September 13, 2016, cover price $17.99

A Triumph of Genius: Edwin Land, Polaroid, and the Kodak Patent War

Product Description: Apple founder Steve Jobs once hailed Edwin Land, the founder of Polaroid and the father of instant photography, as "a national treasure" and once confessed to a reporter that meeting Land was "like visiting a shrine." By his own admission, Jobs modeled much of his own career after Land's...read more

By Ronald K. Fierstein

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Hardcover:

9781627227698 | Amer Bar Assn, February 16, 2015, cover price $35.00

Paperback:

9781634254281 | Amer Bar Assn, August 1, 2016, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Apple founder Steve Jobs once hailed Edwin Land, the founder of Polaroid and the father of instant photography, as "a national treasure" and once confessed to a reporter that meeting Land was "like visiting a shrine.

My Inventions and Other Writings

Product Description: One of science's great unsung heroes, Nikola Tesla (1856–1943) was a prophet of the electronic age. His research laid much of the groundwork for modern electrical and communication systems, and his impressive accomplishments include development of the alternating-current electrical system, radio, the Tesla coil transformer, wireless transmission, and fluorescent lighting...read more

By Nikola Tesla

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Paperback:

9780486807218, titled "My Inventions: And Other Writings" | Dover Pubns, May 18, 2016, cover price $4.00 | About this edition: One of science's great unsung heroes, Nikola Tesla (1856–1943) was a prophet of the electronic age.

9781420950489 | Digireads.Com, January 1, 2014, cover price $12.99 | About this edition: "My Inventions and Other Writings" is a candid and illuminating autobiography of Nikola Tesla (1856-1943), one of the most important technological innovators of the modern industrial age.

You Belong to the Universe: Buckminster Fuller and the Future

By Jonathon Keats

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Hardcover:

9780199338238 | 1 edition (Oxford Univ Pr, April 1, 2016), cover price $24.95

Les Paul in His Own Words

By Paul Les

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Paperback:

9781495047398 | Centennial edition (Backbeat Books, March 1, 2016), cover price $29.99

Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

Product Description: Every American is intimately familiar with Benjamin Franklin, one of the seminal Founding Fathers and the first international American celebrity. Over 200 years after his death, Americans still hold out Franklin as an example of the American Dream, a self-made man whose varied interests brought about changes in science, printing, and, of course, politics...read more

By Benjamin Franklin

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Hardcover:

9781841593661, titled "The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin" | Gardners Books, June 4, 2015, cover price $18.20

9781110408368, titled "The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin" | Bibliolife, June 30, 2009, cover price $30.99 | About this edition: This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality.

9781434495525, titled "The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin" | Wildside Pr, November 30, 2007, cover price $24.95

9781602069602, titled "The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin" | Cosimo Inc, November 30, 2007, cover price $18.99 | About this edition: American icon BENJAMIN FRANKLIN (1706-1790), born in Massachusetts to a British immigrant father and colonial mother, published the famous Poor Richards' Almanack, helped found the University of Pennsylvania, and was the first Postmaster General of the United States.

9781592247653, titled "The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin" | Wildside Pr, November 1, 2002, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: This isn't a tale of Ben Franklin the revolutionary -- the text comes to its end long years before that -- but it does give a fascinating portrait of the man who would become one of America's founding fathers.

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Paperback:

9781522860181, titled "The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin" | Createspace Independent Pub, December 20, 2015, cover price $11.99 | About this edition: It sounds like a joke, but if you look up Autobiography in Wikipedia you get the front cover of Benjamin Franklin's autobiography-that's how famous it is.

9788490018361 | Gardners Books, December 3, 2015, cover price $16.35

9781519447777 | Createspace Independent Pub, November 23, 2015, cover price $9.99 | About this edition: Franklin told the story of his life, as he himself says, for the benefit of his posterity.

9781519273390, titled "The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin" | Createspace Independent Pub, November 13, 2015, cover price $5.99 | About this edition: Every American is intimately familiar with Benjamin Franklin, one of the seminal Founding Fathers and the first international American celebrity.

9781519222718 | Createspace Independent Pub, November 11, 2015, cover price $11.99 | About this edition: Description Notice: This Book is published by Historical Books Limited (www.

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Miscellaneous:

9781598955880 | Unabridged edition (Findaway World Llc, December 11, 2006), cover price $29.99 | About this edition: This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality.

CD/Spoken Word:

9781633798915, titled "The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin" | Mp3 una edition (Dreamscape Media Llc, April 28, 2015), cover price $29.99 | About this edition: Left unfinished at the time of his death, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin has endured as one of the most well-known and influential autobiographies ever written.

9781400101689 | Unabridged edition (Tantor Media Inc, June 30, 2005), cover price $29.99 | About this edition: Considered to be one of the best autobiographies written in colonial America, Franklin portrays a fascinating picture of life in pre-revolutionary Philadelphia.

9781400151684 | Mp3 una edition (Tantor Media Inc, June 30, 2005), cover price $19.99

9781584724056, titled "The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin" | Abridged edition (In Audio, December 1, 2003), cover price $24.00

9781584723813, titled "The Autobiography Of Benjamin Franklin" | Mp3 una edition (In Audio, March 31, 2003), cover price $14.95

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Cassette/Spoken Word:

9781572700437, titled "The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin" | Unabridged edition (Audio Partners, October 1, 1997), cover price $22.95 | About this edition: The memoirs of one of America's Founding Fathers spans eighteen years of his life and covers his career as a printer, scientist, and statesman.

9780694503865, titled "The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin" | Abridged edition (Harperaudio, January 1, 1972), cover price $22.00

Library:

9780531001592 | Franklin Watts, December 1, 1970, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: Translated into a dozen languages, printed in hundreds of editions, and read by millions of people, Franklin's autobiography has had an influence perhaps unequaled by any other book by an American writer.

Prebinding:

9780613124737, titled "The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin" | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $15.50 | About this edition: The American statesman, philosopher, and scientist records his life, career, and philosophy

The Truth About Tesla: The Myth of the Lone Genius in the History of Innovation

By Christopher Cooper

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Hardcover:

9781631060304 | Race Point Pub, October 9, 2015, cover price $28.00

Government Affairs Yellow Book Summer 2015: WhoÂs Who in Government Affairs

Product Description: The Government Affairs Yellow Book includes names, titles, addresses, emails, direct-dial phone numbers, fax numbers, career histories, and additional information for over 26,000 government affairs professionals. This handy directory lists government affairs professionals and lobbyists at corporations, financial institutions, associations, labor unions, interest groups, government agencies, and lobbying firms and also includes the federal and state lobbying firms retained by each corporation, financial institution, association, or nonprofit...read more

By Bryan Monahan (editor)

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Hardcover:

9780517541159, titled "Rufus Porter, Rediscovered" | Revised edition (Crown Pub, May 1, 1980), cover price $7.99 | also contains Rufus Porter, Rediscovered

Paperback:

9780872891647, titled "Government Affairs Yellow Book Summer 2015: Whoâs Who in Government Affairs" | Leadership Directories Inc, June 8, 2015, cover price $390.00 | About this edition: The Government Affairs Yellow Book includes names, titles, addresses, emails, direct-dial phone numbers, fax numbers, career histories, and additional information for over 26,000 government affairs professionals.

Samuel F. B. Morse and the Dawn of the Age of Electricity

By George F. Botjer

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Hardcover:

9781498501408 | Lexington Books, May 6, 2015, cover price $75.00

Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical Age

0396083048

By W. Bernard Carlson

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Hardcover:

9780691057767 | Princeton Univ Pr, May 12, 2013, cover price $29.95

9780396083047, titled "Nima: A Sherpa in Connecticut" | Dodd Mead, May 1, 1984, cover price $1.98 | also contains Nima: A Sherpa in Connecticut | About this edition: 0396083048

Paperback:

9780691165615 | Reprint edition (Princeton Univ Pr, April 27, 2015), cover price $19.95

A Triumph of Genius: Edwin Land, Polaroid, and the Kodak Patent War

Product Description: This riveting biography from the American Bar Association visits the spectacular life of Edwin Land, breakthrough inventor. At the time of his death, he stood third on the list of our most prolific inventors, behind only Thomas Edison and one of Edison's colleagues...read more

By Pete Larkin (narrator)

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9781494509477 | Unabridged edition (Tantor Media Inc, February 17, 2015), cover price $54.99 | About this edition: This riveting biography from the American Bar Association visits the spectacular life of Edwin Land, breakthrough inventor.

9781494559472 | Mp3 una edition (Tantor Media Inc, February 17, 2015), cover price $34.99 | About this edition: This riveting biography from the American Bar Association visits the spectacular life of Edwin Land, breakthrough inventor.

No Ordinary Being: W. Starling Burgess 1878-1947

Product Description: The long-awaited, fully illustrated biography of an authentic American polymath.Few twentieth-century Americans lived a more creative, event-filled, and often conflicted life than the Boston-born aviation pioneer and yacht designer W...read more

By Howland

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Hardcover:

9781567925265 | David R Godine Pub, December 16, 2014, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: The long-awaited, fully illustrated biography of an authentic American polymath.

Ingenious Machinists: Two Inventive Lives from the American Industrial Revolution

Product Description: Ingenious Machinists recounts the early development of industrialization in New England and New York through the lives of two prominent innovators whose work advanced the transformation to factory work and corporations, the rise of the middle class, and other momentous changes in nineteenth-century America...read more

By Anthony J. Connors

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Hardcover:

9781438454016 | State Univ of New York Pr, December 1, 2014, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: "Ingenious Machinists" recounts the early development of industrialization in New England and New York through the lives of two prominent innovators whose work advanced the transformation to factory work and corporations, the rise of the middle class, and other momentous changes in nineteenth-century America.

Paperback:

9781438454023 | State Univ of New York Pr, December 1, 2014, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Ingenious Machinists recounts the early development of industrialization in New England and New York through the lives of two prominent innovators whose work advanced the transformation to factory work and corporations, the rise of the middle class, and other momentous changes in nineteenth-century America.

Benjamin Franklin: American Founder, Atlantic Citizen

Product Description: Known for his influential role in the debates that established the founding documents of the United States, Benjamin Franklin was not only an astute politician, but also an Atlantic citizen whose commitment to the American cause was informed by years spent in England and France...read more

By Nathan R. Kozuskanich

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Hardcover:

9780415531962 | Routledge, October 10, 2014, cover price $155.00 | About this edition: Known for his influential role in the debates that established the founding documents of the United States, Benjamin Franklin was not only an astute politician, but also an Atlantic citizen whose commitment to the American cause was informed by years spent in England and France.

Paperback:

9780415532006 | Routledge, October 13, 2014, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Known for his influential role in the debates that established the founding documents of the United States, Benjamin Franklin was not only an astute politician, but also an Atlantic citizen whose commitment to the American cause was informed by years spent in England and France.

Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical Age

By Allan Robertson (narrator)

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9781491531440 | Mp3 una edition (Brilliance Audio, August 26, 2014), cover price $14.99

9781491531204 | Unabridged edition (Brilliance Audio, August 26, 2014), cover price $14.99

C. Francis Jenkins, Pioneer of Film and Television

Product Description: This is the first biography of the important but long-forgotten American inventor Charles Francis Jenkins (1867-1934). Historian Donald G. Godfrey documents the life of Jenkins from his childhood in Indiana and early life in the West to his work as a prolific inventor whose productivity was cut short by an early death...read more

By Donald G. Godfrey

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Hardcover:

9780252038280, titled "C. Francis Jenkins: Pioneer of Film and Television" | Univ of Illinois Pr, April 15, 2014, cover price $52.00 | About this edition: This is the first biography of the important but long-forgotten American inventor Charles Francis Jenkins (1867-1934).

Tesla: The Life and Times of an Electric Messiah

By Nigel Cawthorne

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Hardcover:

9780785829447 | Chartwell Books, April 5, 2014, cover price $14.99

9780312749880, titled "The Spanish Economy in the Twentieth Century" | Palgrave Macmillan, November 1, 1984, cover price $32.50 | also contains The Spanish Economy in the Twentieth Century

America's Obsessives: The Compulsive Energy That Built a Nation

Product Description: When most of us think of Charles Lindbergh, we picture a dashing twenty-five-year-old aviator stepping out of the Spirit of St. Louis after completing his solo flight across the Atlantic. What we don't see is the awkward high school student, who preferred ogling new gadgets at the hardware store to watching girls walk by in their summer dresses...read more

By Joshua Kendall

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Hardcover:

9781455502387 | Grand Central Pub, June 25, 2013, cover price $27.00 | About this edition: When most of us think of Charles Lindbergh, we picture a dashing twenty-five-year-old aviator stepping out of the Spirit of St.

Paperback:

9781455502370 | Grand Central Pub, April 20, 2017, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: When most of us think of Charles Lindbergh, we picture a dashing twenty-five-year-old aviator stepping out of the Spirit of St.

Edison and the Rise of Innovation: The Man Who Invented the Future

By Leonard Degraaf

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Hardcover:

9781402767364 | Sterling Pub Co Inc, October 1, 2013, cover price $29.95

Edison and the Rise of Innovation

Product Description: Mart Belden is behaving mysteriously and when the school is broken into by a mysterious Midnight Marauder, he becomes the prime suspect. Trixie and the Bob-Whites have their hands full solving the mystery of Mart's behavior, the disappearance of Reddy and Patch and uncovering the true identity of the Midnight Marauder before any more damage is done...read more

By John P. Keegan (introduced by)

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9780307215512, titled "Trixie Belden and the Mystery of the Midnight Marauder" | Golden Pr, April 1, 1980, cover price $1.95 | also contains Trixie Belden and the Mystery of the Midnight Marauder | About this edition: Mart Belden is behaving mysteriously and when the school is broken into by a mysterious Midnight Marauder, he becomes the prime suspect.

Ben Franklin for Beginners

Product Description: “If you would not be forgotten as soon as you’re dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing.” – Benjamin FranklinBenjamin Franklin narrated and lived the Great American Success Story. As America’s prototypical polymath, he excelled―and even defined―a number of professions including printer, writer, postmaster, scientists, inventor, public citizen, politician, and diplomat...read more

By Tim Ogline

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9781934389485 | Red Wheel/Weiser, October 1, 2013, cover price $16.99 | About this edition: “If you would not be forgotten as soon as you’re dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing.

The Devil's Right Hand: The Tragic Story of the Colt Family Curse

By M. William Phelps

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Hardcover:

9780762763795 | Lyons Pr, December 6, 2011, cover price $24.95

Paperback:

9780762788460 | Lyons Pr, September 3, 2013, cover price $16.95

Forgotten Aviator: The Byron Q. Jones Story

Product Description: Faced with the challenge of creating an Air Force essentially from scratch, with the nation already in a declared war--U.S. Army leaders were in a scramble. It was the spring of 1917 and the entire U.S. Army had only about 100,000 active-duty soldiers, compared to about 4 million then in uniform for Germany, the largest of the World War I Central Powers...read more

By Dan Heaton

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9780828324526 | Branden Pub Co, June 6, 2013, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Faced with the challenge of creating an Air Force essentially from scratch, with the nation already in a declared war--U.

Thomas Edison: His Electrifying Life

By Richard Lacayo

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Hardcover:

9781618930576 | Time Inc Home Entertainment, May 28, 2013, cover price $17.95

Birdseye: The Adventures of a Curious Man

By Mark Kurlansky

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Hardcover:

9781410450784 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, September 26, 2012), cover price $31.99

9780385527057 | Doubleday, May 8, 2012, cover price $25.95

Paperback:

9780767930307 | Anchor Books, February 12, 2013, cover price $15.95

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