{"id":3567,"date":"2019-07-05T03:10:48","date_gmt":"2019-07-05T03:10:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/old.yesterdaysclassics.com\/books\/?page_id=3567"},"modified":"2025-03-26T09:14:23","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T09:14:23","slug":"four-american-inventors-by-frances-m-perry","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/old.yesterdaysclassics.com\/books\/four-american-inventors-by-frances-m-perry\/","title":{"rendered":"Four American Inventors"},"content":{"rendered":"

Four American Inventors<\/strong><\/h3>\n

by Frances M. Perry<\/p>\n

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Description:  <\/span>Stirring accounts of four of America’s greatest inventors: Robert Fulton, Eli Whitney, Samuel F. B. Morse, and Thomas Edison. Emphasis is placed on their formative years and how the skills they acquired then enabled them to meet the challenges they faced later, both in developing and manufacturing their inventions and in achieving widespread public acceptance of them.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Ages:  <\/strong>10-12<\/em>Length: <\/strong><\/span> <\/span>229 pages<\/span><\/em>Format:<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>  <\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>Paperback, Ebook<\/span><\/span><\/em>Illustrations:<\/strong><\/span> <\/span><\/strong><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> Black and white<\/span><\/em>Year published:<\/strong> <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>2011<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em>ISBN:<\/strong>  <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em>978-1-59915-412-1<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>Genres:<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>  <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em>American History, Biography<\/em> <\/p>\n

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Table of Contents<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

1. A Boy with Ideas<\/em><\/p>\n

2. Working Out Some of the Ideas<\/em><\/p>\n

3. The Young Artist<\/em><\/p>\n

4. The Artist Becomes an Engineer<\/em><\/p>\n

5. Experiments<\/em><\/p>\n

6. Making the Steamboat<\/em><\/p>\n

7. The Trial Voyage<\/em><\/p>\n

8. Success<\/em><\/p>\n

9. Steamboats on the Hudson<\/em><\/p>\n

10. Other Interests<\/em><\/p>\n

11. His Work Ended<\/em><\/p>\n

12. Childhood<\/em><\/p>\n

13. Youth<\/em><\/p>\n

14. At Yale<\/em><\/p>\n

15. In Georgia<\/em><\/p>\n

16. The Opportunity<\/em><\/p>\n

17. Making the Cotton Gin<\/em><\/p>\n

18. Great Expectations<\/em><\/p>\n

19. Misfortunes<\/em><\/p>\n

20. In the Courts<\/em><\/p>\n

21. Making Arms<\/em><\/p>\n

22. Last Years<\/em><\/p>\n

23. The Parsonage<\/em><\/p>\n

24. Early Influences<\/em><\/p>\n

25. College Life<\/em><\/p>\n

26. Life in London<\/em><\/p>\n

27. Painting<\/em><\/p>\n

28. Abroad Again<\/em><\/p>\n

29. An Important Voyage<\/em><\/p>\n

30. Years of Struggle<\/em><\/p>\n

31. Encouragement<\/em><\/p>\n

32. Waiting at Last Rewarded<\/em><\/p>\n

33. The Telegraph<\/em><\/p>\n

34. The Cable<\/em><\/p>\n

35. The Inventor at Home<\/em><\/p>\n

36. Early Years<\/em><\/p>\n

37. Youthful Business Ventures<\/em><\/p>\n

38. Study<\/em><\/p>\n

39. A Change of Business<\/em><\/p>\n

40. The Boy Telegraph Operator<\/em><\/p>\n

41. Telegrapher and Inventor<\/em><\/p>\n

42. In Boston<\/em><\/p>\n

43. Recognized as an Electrician<\/em><\/p>\n

44. Inventor and Manufacturer<\/em><\/p>\n

45. “The Wizard of Menlo Park”<\/em><\/p>\n

46. Inventions<\/em><\/p>\n

47. At Orange, New Jersey<\/em><\/p>\n

An Inside View…<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

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