stories of invention and discovery Larsen, Egon 1904-1990 creator text festschrift nka London New York Phoenix House Roy Publishers c1962 1962 2nd. rev. ed. monographic ng eng

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224 p. : ill. ; 22 cm Alexander Graham Bell : the man who made the wires talk -- Thomas Alva Edison : the man with 2,500 patents -- William Friese-Greene : the man with the magic box -- Charles A. Parsons : the man who opened the gates of power -- John Boyd Dunlop : the man who made cycling a pleasure -- Guglielmo Marconi : the man who mastered space and time -- Wilbur and Orville Wright : the men who gave us wings -- Henry Ford : the man who set the world on wheels -- Lord Rutherford : the man who split the atom -- John Logie Baird : the man who made the magic mirror -- Sir Frank Whittle : the man who made jet propulsion possible -- Sir Robert Watson-Watt : the man who made us see through night, fog, and cloud by Egon Larsen Includes bibliographical references (p. 225) Inventors 608.7 LAM 1962 PLF 140205 20211208235616.0 14317 eng