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1) Inventors
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Revolutionary War-era inventor Benjamin Banneker gets most of the headlines, but the story of invention by black scientists certainly did not stop there. Throughout recent centuries and perhaps never more so than today brilliant and dedicated creative people of African heritage are helping to make our world better and safer with their inventions. From food refrigeration to high-tech electronics, from closed-circuit TV to 3-D glasses, from rocket science...
2) Inventors
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Draws upon photographs, illustrations, and other resources of the Library of Congress to present information on some of the great inventions of history, such as the airplane and telephone, and discusses how they led the way to new industries and discoveries.
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The unique human species evolved on a unique planet. This documentary explores innovations and adaptations that brought us from the brink of extinction to control our destiny. Fire and clothing enabled us to survive the Ice Age, during which we domesticated the wolf. Farming led to settlements, but crop failures brought warfare and livestock bred infectious disease. Organized religion inspired monuments like Pharaoh Khufu’s Great Pyramid, engineered...
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This bundle of audiobooks contains the following topics:
Isaac Newton - We often think about Newton when we see an apple falling from a tree: The man who came up with the gravity theory, a physics scientist who gave said event and others significant thought.
Sir Isaac Newton was an English mathematician, physicist, astronomer, theologian, and writer who was commonly seen as one of the best mathematicians, physicists, and most prominent researchers...
11) Great inventors
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Introduces ten inventions and their inventors and provides instructions for making such models as a cocktail stick bi-plane and a corkscrew helicopter.
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"Smart women have always been able to achieve amazing things, even when the odds were stacked against them. In Wonder Women, author Sam Maggs tells the stories of the brilliant, brainy, and totally rad women in history who broke barriers as scientists, engineers, mathematicians, adventurers, and inventors. Plus, interviews with real-life women in STEM careers, an extensive bibliography, and a guide to women-centric science and technology organizations--all...
18) Women inventors
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Examines the lives, personalities, and achievements of five women inventors from throughout history, including Temple Grandin, Madame Walker, Rose O'Neill, Grace Hopper, and Margaret Knight.