To Learn More about Innovators,
Inventors, and Inventions

Barnes, Pete. Harley and the Davidsons: Motorcycle Legends. Madison: Wisconsin Historical Society Press, 2007.

Barretta, Gene. Now & Ben: The Modern Inventions of Benjamin Franklin. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2006.

Busby, Peter. First to Fly. New York: Crown Books, 2002.

Byrd, Robert. Leonardo: Beautiful Dreamer. New York: Dutton Children’s Books, 2003.

Garmon, Anita. Alexander Graham Bell Invents. Washington, D.C.: National Geographic, 2007.

Harness, Cheryl. The Groundbreaking, Chance Taking Life of George Washington Carver and Science and Invention in America. Washington, D.C.: National Geographic, 2008.

Lasky, Kathryn. The Man Who Made Time Travel. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2003.

St. George, Judith. So You Want to be an Inventor? New York: Philomel Books, 2002.

Steele, Philip. Isaac Newton: The Man Who Changed Everything. Washington, D.C.: National Geographic, 2007.

Thimmesh, Catherine. Girls Think of Everything: Stories of Ingenious Inventions by Women. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2000.

Wulffson, Don L. The Kid Who Invented the Trampoline: More Surprising Stories about Inventions. New York: Dutton Children’s Books, 2001.

 

innovator: someone who invents something or does something in a new way