Product Description: From its earliest years, the United States was a nation of tinkerers: men and women who looked at the world around them and were able to create something genuinely new from what they saw. Guided by their innate curiosity, a desire to know how things work, and a belief that anything can be improved, amateurs and professionals from Benjamin Franklin to Thomas Edison came up with the inventions that laid the foundations for America's economic dominance...read more

Chronicles the journey behind Dean Kamen's invention of the Segway, an electric-powered human transporter, explaining the machine's innovative engineering and relationships with investors. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.