This is a children's book biography of Grace Hopper, who played a prominent role in the early days of computers.

Examines how the engineer George Ferris invented and constructed the amusement park ride that bears his name for the 1893 Chicago World's Fair.

"Mary Golda Ross designed classified projects for Lockheed Air Corporation as the company's first female engineer. Find out how her passion for math and the Cherokee values she was raised with shaped her life and work"--

"Based on more than forty interviews with Steve Jobs conducted over two years--as well as interviews with more than 100 family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues--Walter Isaacson has written a riveting story of the roller-coaster life and searingly intense personality of a creative entrepreneur whose passion for perfection and ferocious drive revolutionized six industries: personal computers, animated movies, music, phones,...

"Washington Roebling is well known as the man who supervised construction of the Brooklyn Bridge. This is the story of Roebling's Civil War service at Gettysburg and beyond, and how that service--as artilleryman, bridge builder, scout, balloonist, mapmaker, engineer, and staff officer--prepared him well for overseeing the monumental bridge project"--

The author explores the beginnings of Edison's genius from his boyhood delight in mixing chemicals, sometimes with explosive results, to this disastrous time in school, even his early career as a twelve-year old businessman. He celebrates the imagination and stick-to-itiveness of the man who is America's greatest inventor and entrepreneur.

Presents a biography of the tireless Thomas Edison, illustrated with many photos of his life and inventions.

"From the start, his path was never predictable. Steve Jobs was given up for adoption at birth, dropped out of college after one semester, and at the age of twenty, created Apple in his parents' garage with his friend Steve Wozniack. Then came the core and hallmark of his genius--his exacting moderation for perfection, his counterculture life approach, and his level of taste and style that pushed all boundaries. A devoted husband, father, and Buddhist,...